FFXIV needs to stop accommodating Solo Players

[CamuiKushi]

One of the most fun content creators I've seen for FFXIV in the past year is literally doing a "solo as much as I can" run. So, no.

There are actually a lot of these players, who avoid this game because of the multiplayer aspects but still play the other FFs. It's actually clever to draw them in this way, because a lot of people who were once solo players just needed the push to interact with others. And drawing them in with solo content can work.

This describes me. I started playing the game cause I was told you could do a bunch of stuff solo and that's how I got to level cap: mostly solo and using DF when that wasn't an option. Now I play PVP multiple times a week (sometimes it's all I do in a single play session), I'm having banter in chat during alliance raids/MSQ roulettes, I've grouped up with randoms in Eureka.

So.. double no. Big disagree with the OP.

[SailorCeti]

What's wrong with solo content? It has zero affect on group content. The MSQ is already soloable. Other than that, we have Duty Support. Beyond that, what else is there that's catering to solo players? This thread makes a dumb argument. One of the things I like about FFXIV, and often use to bring in new players like me, is that it's more of an RPG-MMO than an MMO-RPG. Take that away, and it becomes another game sitting on my shelf that I no longer play. Such sentiments never used to be a problem. But then, Blizzard had that PR problem a while back. Now, the forum is starting to parrot WoW's. People play in different way, and for different reasons. To think some people have the attitude that everyone should play one particular way is beyond imbecilic.

[Supersnow845]

What's wrong with solo content? It has zero affect on group content. The MSQ is already soloable. Other than that, we have Duty Support. Beyond that, what else is there that's catering to solo players? This thread makes a dumb argument. One of the things I like about FFXIV, and often use to bring in new players like me, is that it's more of an RPG-MMO than an MMO-RPG. Take that away, and it becomes another game sitting on my shelf that I no longer play. Such sentiments never used to be a problem. But then, Blizzard had that PR problem a while back. Now, the forum is starting to parrot WoW's. People play in different way, and for different reasons. To think some people have the attitude that everyone should play one particular way is beyond imbecilic.

Well I mean if you are asking about EW specifically besides the MSQ and duty support system eating up resources we had
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-island sanctuary
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The better question would be what was actually designed to be played like an MMO this expansion besides the usual boring cadence of extreme/savage, hell even the casual battle content you have to do with other people (AR’s trials) you barely have to acknowledge the other players you all just wail on the boss, hell if you are a tank the other players are straight up irrelevant to you

[Valence]

Criterion (kek)

[MonteCristo]

It's wild how we been screamin for so long about how this was a problem only to get flamed here on these forums. Fast forward Yoshi P confirms how dead the multiplayer aspect is and how he himself has been bored. Id really LOVE to hear from the folks on here that gaslit several posts and acted like everything was just fine. "YaLL ArE dEluSional wE hAvE PLENTY of cOnTEnt"

[Ath192]

It's wild how we been screamin for so long about how this was a problem only to get flamed here on these forums. Fast forward Yoshi P confirms how dead the multiplayer aspect is and how he himself has been bored. Id really LOVE to hear from the folks on here that gaslit several posts and acted like everything was just fine. "YaLL ArE dEluSional wE hAvE PLENTY of cOnTEnt"

They wont, they don't acknowledge anything and are happy to burn something to the ground defending every single bad decision, and when they are done killing the game, they wonder where everyone went, shrug, and go find another game to ruin.

[MonteCristo]

They wont, they don't acknowledge anything and are happy to burn something to the ground defending every single bad decision, and when they are done killing the game, they wonder where everyone went, shrug, and go find another game to ruin.

They were so loud before...makes me want to bump some of those old threads that aged terribly

[DBriggs304]

I played a lala for years and NEVER encountered one thing for me being a lala and that's been since 2013ish

[QiyoJoyo]

Can i ask what happend? I mean i know some people dont like Lalafell.

But i always take it as banter.

The only thing people do to me is hugging me!

[Valence]

Even I that don't play lalafell (fortunately), I see on a DAILY basis someone writing here or there how lalas shoudln't be in the game, should be killed, should be burned, or how they ruin the game experience of someone else. And this is on the good days, when it's not about literally equating lala players with the p word.