Thread: 7.0 MMO to a Single Player Game

Originally Posted by IkaraGreydancer

How many are actually doing things solo though?

A lot of people only play the single playersfinal fantasy games. Yet this is a great final fantasy game, so they want to make it possible to play it as a single player game. This is Square Enix opinion based on market research and polling of the public, and you can see it among the content creators who played FF16 that they didn't play the MMOs and avoid the MMOs or avoid mentioning the MMOs.

SE want to rebrand it from an MMORPG to just a game that can be played "alone or with friends", like GTA V for example. They told us this at the previous live letters regarding the future of the game.

And they've only allowed trusts in trials once for narrative reasons.

I don't buy that at all. There have been many times where it would make sense for narrative reasons, but they make all the scions get busy so you can't do it with them. Let's take Innocence. The scions conveniently get busy holding off Sin Eaters so that you have to do it with players. Or let's take Endsinger, where the scions conveniently get blown away and teleported onto the ship so that you have to do it with players. It would make more sense for those things not to have happened, and SE will most likely change it when adding trial support.

Originally Posted by Hurlstone

As for NPCs in MSQ trials… I dunno if we will get that. I seem to recall reading that the Hydaelyn battle was a ‘test’ of if they could do it, and they found it too tricky to implement?

It was a test, yes, but they never said it was too tricky. Just tricky. Their focus is making the MSQ dungeons have duty support. As this will be complete by 7.0, you can expect them to announce MSQ trials will get duty support in 7.x patches.

How can I be so confident in this? Because SE want to make it so you can play the game "alone or with friends." This is their 10-year goal, so it's almost certain they will announce this at the fan fest later this month, or just do it anyway.

Originally Posted by Hurlstone

I will say, one trial I think needs to be changed/made solo is Coils. I can understand if they want to keep most raids/trials and stuff duty-bound, but the way that fantastic/rather important story is more or less locked outside of soloing it at high levels or rarely seen PF groups is a right tragedy.

I am sure this is on their mind about as much as Castrum Meridianum and Praetorium were (these used to be on their mind for many, many years but they never changed them because their focus is always new content).

Now their focus is on revamping old content as well, but I think their priority is content that is required for the MSQ.

Although it's possible they could do it sometime in 7.x, they will have more free resources in 8.0 when all the required content has Duty Support. It's possible they will use those resources on side content, such as making a story version of the coil raids and merging all the current ones into the (Savage) category.