So if they took Skyrim, added multiplayer to the sequel, all those 10 million+ players who enjoy going out and exploring a realm on their own will be playing it wrong?
Would that Skyrim sequel make healing yourself and other things not easy and thus you can't be completely self-sufficient? Would it make one trash enemies challenging enough that it can easily kill you? Would it make those dungeons require many different party roles that you being say an archer can not hope to fill yet you still need a healer or a tank?
If yes then yes going solo would be playing it wrong. What makes an mmo fun to me is playing my role well and teaming up with other people to do things.
When I think of Final Fantasy I think of the party.
FFXIV excels when you are in a party and each person is doing thier role correctly. That's what makes the boss battles and dungeons fun. It's a game that for better or worse(because roles are kind of limited) makes you know your role.
Yes the game outside of that is soloable, but thats because it's so braindead easy really. So you have braindead easy quests without any real thrill or style to them. It makes for a boring game outside of the party content if you ask me. The thing is until the endgame most of your content is that. Yet you're telling me this is the only content you want. Thats what I don't understand.
It's even more confusing to me because when I think FF I do think of parties of characters. Yet, in FFXIV it dosen't do much to encourage partying with people and forming groups that you want to team up with, like a party in a FF game. So actually to solo a FF seems like a flaw to me. Yes, I did solo everything in 14 that wasn't a dungeon. That wasn't a positive. For an MMO I meet no one. Thats kind of bad if you ask me. In WoW I did have to team up with people on my own server(gee thats kind of sad that this is of note) to beat some quests. Crazily thats how I meet people in the MMO, I had to work with them. Which to me is what you're supposed to do in a MMO.
See I don't think MMOs are single player rpgs and they shouldn't be. Because I can just go play a single player rpg.