Quote Originally Posted by grandm View Post
the game is not failing that bad, its much more popular that it was a year ago. and at re-launch who knows what marketing strategy they will have the. also solo all the quests and you are playing a single player game, a single player game where you can go play with your mates when you want to give single player a break for a bit. the main reason this is a bad idea and i agree with some of the other reply's you have had on this, its better they fix what they got and re-lauch to the masses
im saying implementing this in the first or second expansion. I fully support the game being fixed and tweaked first. This would allow them to re-launch the game AFTER ps3 release to an entirely new population-segment (all the PS3 users who have a ps3 mainly for single player games and dont want to play an MMO)

And all it really would be is an enhanced quest system. It would be identical to making 100 new quests except that it would have new instanced zones, a really good story, cutscenes and voiceacting maybe, 5-10 'bosses', etc. And maybe if you complete it you get a really epic ring or something (kind of like an incentive for the mmo players to do it).

It would also set FFXIV apart from other MMOs. Like if people were looking into it they would see not only can they play an MMO but they can play a full single player game. And even if the MMO part continues to get bad reviews, a really good story in the single player part could get epic reviews (almost every FF does) and attract a lot of players who would eventually decide to continue playing the game in MMO mode.