Alpha First Look: Video 5 - Quests and Combat

[strallaalaa]

personally i love player interactions in my mmo's ...the more forced party play the better. its not about small groups, intimate 2player thing though. i don't really like small parties where it's me and another running around. i'm more like the "it's a party!!" college, full house of peoples you don't know kinda thing. i like it large and tons of people together. anything less then 6party kinda feels dull to me doing anything other then farming and the jollies i get curing someone when they are fighting and have a nice chunk of hp down. i consider them friends even if i don't know there real names, and i don't need to know squat about them. it's as intimate as i want it in a mmo. i want the grouping and fun and then the one day cya later, hopefully 5years later when the game gets stale. i don't want to meet you or talk to you on phone or give you my number or anything like that. typing and having fun is as far as it goes and i luvs it. i frigin hate solo play, gw2 was an all time record in how fast i quit an mmo. 2 weeks. fuk that game and fuk all mmo's trying to copy it.

[Psykotsu]

gw2 was an all time record in how fast i quit an mmo. 2 weeks. fuk that game and fuk all mmo's trying to copy it.

Shoulda made some friends. We did everything in a party.

But seriously though, your argument is kind of an insult to people who share the same opinion as you. I mean..think about..

You are in love with party play, I respect that. But it sounds to me that you will only play in a party if the game forces you to. Do you just not have the incentive to play in a party on your own? Or do you only play in a party when you have to?

[strallaalaa]

Shoulda made some friends. We did everything in a party.

But seriously though, your argument is kind of an insult to people who share the same opinion as you. I mean..think about..

You are in love with party play, I respect that. But it sounds to me that you will only play in a party if the game forces you to. Do you just not have the incentive to play in a party on your own? Or do you only play in a party when you have to?

that is funny cause i went threw many guilds and every one of them were dead silent no matter how much you talk. most the time they don't even reply back even when you talk let alone keep convo's going. i assume you were on vent with people where lets face it is the only place people gather and talk in for these types of mmo's.

in ffxi on the other hand i was in multiple endgame linkshells that were full, many socials and a handfull of static shells for small game endgame like salvage. along with that everyday i partied with new players and it wasn't 5mins so even if it was quite most the time you still had some very enjoyable jokes and covo's here and there. and made good friends when you realize that 2-3 people are still the original players from when you first started the party 6-10hrs ago lol.

as for forced play yes most likely it has to be, i'm not gonna do it if it's easier and same exp solo'ing. i'm not gonna spend an hour putting a party together to get the same exp. one it would be hard to get a group 2. then i just waisted my time while others speed threw solo. don't get me wrong in ffxi i played tag and hid and seek in jueno with my one linkshell lmao. was boring and i quit very soon after but i just can't get into stuff like that. doing a suicide with poison pots in jueno was entertaining but it wasn't like an everyday part of the game. i like progression and party, it's a good mix

on a last note, by the end of ffxi if you did every type of content you probably could play 16hours a day and always have something to do and all of it was with groups, with the same players for most and lots of stuff to do with shouts and small man stuff with new people. so yeah forced grouping is where it's at on the fun factor for me.