I'm new to MMOs, as the only one I've ever played was a pseudo-MMO/single player RPG hybrid in White Knight Chronicles, but it was nice to have an option to play if the servers were down.

I don't know if this is just the newness factor, but paying $12.99 to MAYBE get on a server in order to play the game doesn't sound too appealing. If you pay for a service, you should receive the service - no maybes. I'm loving the game. Its awesome and I have very little complaints, but this is one of them.

It'd be nice if they just let you tool around the world, interact with NPCs or do other quests while offline should you encounter server problems, or a full world, or a queue that does nothing. Sidequests, leves, story and guild instances all tend to force you to be solo anyway.

I understand the whole basis of an MMORPG is a massive online venture... but at the same time, XIV forces me to be online to do 90% of the game solo, outside of dungeons and FATEs.