Give ff14 a single player mode?

[Konachibi]

Konata, where have you been? :O

Talk some sense into this guy for me ^^

Though, seems like he might have given up :P

I was playing the game, making stuff for a new LS member and trying to catch up with my leves... can't wait till 1.19, then I won't have to rush to get them done before resets XD

Eh, Azury usually makes arguements that go against everything the game stands for -

Azury's earlier thread: Teleporting ruins immersion, despite it being part of the games storyline, oh and I use and abuse it every chance I get even though I hate it.

So chances are she's just made another arguement that goes against something in the game, in this case that fact that it's an online multiplayer, in hopes of causing another thread that'll drag on for endless pages with lots of people shouting at each other.

Scary thing is it may actually work.

They have many more important things to worry about than this nonsense.

If you want to play a single-player FF game, there are 12 others to choose from.

Oh an Eekiki, don't forget the spin-offs like Tactics, Dissidia, Crystal Chronicles, sequals like dirge Of Cerberus, X-2, and soon XIII-2, and the anime too. In total there's probably more than 30 Final Fantasy games out there.

[Eekiki]

Eh, Azury usually makes arguements that go against everything the game stands for

That's because Azury doesn't want to play a video game. He wants to role-play, but he can't find a group to LARP with where he lives.

[Lienn]

I was playing the game, making stuff for a new LS member and trying to catch up with my leves... can't wait till 1.19, then I won't have to rush to get them done before resets XD

Eh, Azury usually makes arguements that go against everything the game stands for -

Azury's earlier thread: Teleporting ruins immersion, despite it being part of the games storyline, oh and I use and abuse it every chance I get even though I hate it.

So chances are she's just made another arguement that goes against something in the game, in this case that fact that it's an online multiplayer, in hopes of causing another thread that'll drag on for endless pages with lots of people shouting at each other.

Scary thing is it may actually work.



Oh an Eekiki, don't forget the spin-offs like Tactics, Dissidia, Crystal Chronicles, sequals like dirge Of Cerberus, X-2, and soon XIII-2, and the anime too. In total there's probably more than 30 Final Fantasy games out there.

Based on SE investor page, FF has 44 titles.

[RemVye]

All I can say is... you're an idiot.

I like how you make these awesome assumptions like "gain 800K players overnight", "will make the game LAST!", and my favorite "make an entirely new game (recreate everything put new story, cs's, etc..) inside of FFXIV but market it not as FFXIV!"

Seriously are you that dense, I mean honestly this is the most insane thing I've read on the forums and I'm convinced this is a massive troll attempt.

[weeble]

don't agree with any of it, but i will say. when the game comes out, and expansions come out. they should release and launch them with all of the story missions at once. i am sick of se with ffxi putting them out slowly. i payed for the game, or the expansion i should technically treat it like a offline game and pummel threw all of it if i want and be done with. i quit ffxi b4 seeing the very last set of wotg missions ...they took to long to come out and i didn't want to wait anymore with there slow content release. after 5years of playing it got to me. they should seriously consider making the missions a package that is all at once. just like the city 10missions, and zilart was all out by time na got them.

other then that ...i say they should layer mmo's ..multiple player types on same servers so we still full server but solo players playing and have seperate ah. and party play ..an even hardcore/grind/challenge what have you. or completly diff servers.

but the idea of op is a no way and thank you.

[syntaxlies]

probably the worst idea ever

[PrettyPrincess]

no .

[Cycloptichorn]

Has anyone pointed out that FFXIV already IS a single-player mode game if you want it to be?

Just don't talk to, buy anything from, or party with anyone.

[Coombah]

While I love FFXIV it seems to be failing as a multiplayer MMO. So why not make part of it single player? They have the basic code, they have the graphics, they have the ai, etc. All they would need is a few more graphics, a new story, and some cutscenes.

Imagine an epic cutscene-based movie like expansion that makes it feel like you're playing a -normal- final fantasy. And when i say movie like i don't mean 40 min long cutscenes. I mean an epic save-the-world storyline with actual reoccuring characters that help you fight, backstories to the chars, in-depth lore, and LOTS of zones. The zones can even be instanced as long as they are somewhat new and creative (in order to prevent the costs of expanding servers or making them server compatible). The world is so huge that they could choose from different areas to hold the story. For example you might be responsible for liberating ala-mihgo. Or maybe you have to save the world from the threat of a dragon war. Or they can just make an entirely new area and have the story there.

I know it seems like a stupid idea for an MMO but think about how many non-mmo players it would pull in who might stay -after- finishing the story. Essentially you should be able to do the entire single player (30-50 hours gameplay?) with one job and by the end have that job near max. So current players would get to level up another job while experiencing the single player mode, and new players would be able to level up and get to end game without boring grinding.

Main point is if SE markets the game as a single player mode with a different name + 1-month free, they could easily draw in 800k+ new players overnight. And a large amount of those would probably stick around to play the MMO part afterwords.

It would also make FFXIV unique compared to every other MMO.

People seem to be missing the point. Yoshi P has said you should be able to play casually and choose to solo in this game. So I'm arguing that instead of having all solo as grinding and repeated leve quests, they create a 'solo expansion' that allows you to take one job max via solo through a deep storyline comparable to non-onlne ff titles. If you think thats a bad idea then explain why people would rather grind the same mobs for 40 hours over playing an interesting story for 30 or 40.

Funny... Isn't this a MMO? MMO HMMM WHAT DOES THAT MEAN???

[Misha]

*Facepalm* ... That is all! ... *sigh*