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Solo story wrong headed
Seing as how helping or joining someone for their personal story is a mechanism that was in the game from the start its very strange why these personal instances dont make use of it.
I don’t mind joining someone into a quest. What I do mind is dungeons that can only be done by groups, which is almost always the case. So I am liking this single person “dungeon”.
Personally I would prefer you were FORCED to join a group for this kind of content.
But not even giving people the OPTION to play with a group a people?!
Arena net, what are you thinking? You are making an MMO. Why are you making singleplayer ONLY content? Even the personal story could be done with groups.
Why are you forcing single player only content on people?
I play this game because I want to be interacting with other people, it’s an MMO.
Oh look, people complain about instances always being group content so anet fix it, and then people start complaining that the single player instances aren’t group instances. They just can’t win.
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Morrï (Mesmer) | Serah Mahariel (Guardian) | Morrï Mahariel (Warrior)
“colesy’s on rampage today. Slaying casuals left, right and centre” – spoj
I was just about to make a thread on this myself, but seeing as you’ve already done so I’ll save the trouble of a mod merging it XD
Anyways, I find it utterly ridiculous that the current “Ceremony and Acrimony” instance cannot be completed in a group… This is supposed to be a Massively Multiplayer Online game, why are we being forced into single player content???
They could win by allowing for 1-5 people in an instance…
Oh look, people complain about instances always being group content so anet fix it, and then people start complaining that the single player instances aren’t group instances. They just can’t win.
You misunderstand the issue, personal story was perfect when friends could hop in and play along with you, but it wasn’t a necessity. That’s what people want from these instances.
Oh, Anet could win… just by making it so you could do it either solo OR in a group. Going from one extreme to the other is quite silly, and Anet needs a kick in the pants for that particular bit of idiocy.
I like the single player content. It is nice to have them to play your in your own way and in your own speed. I will take my undesirable profession with an unpopular build and go have fun =) . Thank You Anet
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Amusing to watch people confuse the original story instances where friends could come along and help you out with 5 person dungeons.
I enjoy the solo content, beats grouping with people who are either rude or incompetent, additionally solo content works well for a more personal approach.
I am not so inconsiderate as the original poster as to insist for content that only I enjoy. So I suggest a choice of solo and group events would be a nice improvement, make the instances scale to the two play styles.
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sigh The OP is not insisting on group only content, Aedelric. Please read more carefully.
I enjoy the solo content, beats grouping with people who are either rude or incompetent, additionally solo content works well for a more personal approach.
I am not so inconsiderate as the original poster as to insist for content that only I enjoy. So I suggest a choice of solo and group events would be a nice improvement, make the instances scale to the two play styles.
That’s exactly what the original poster said…
You really should have the option to group, since you can do that even on your personal story missions. If this is an extension of the personal story, why doesn’t it work the same way? Seems like an oversight to me, hope they fix it in future events.
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Oh look, people complain about instances always being group content so anet fix it, and then people start complaining that the single player instances aren’t group instances. They just can’t win.
The issue is not that they add instances…its that they do not allow player choice in how they play the content.
This is an MMO. If I want to play through this content with friends/guildmates, I can’t. That is the wrong design. Party members should be allowed into instances…just like every other instance.
The overall majority of the content in this game is for groups, like 99%. I think it is good to add a little variety, especially for players that don’t like to group. Sure they could just “allow” players to join up together but I’m going to assume then they would have adjust difficulty and then there’s player levels, you know logistics and stuff. Point being this way is probably easier and faster for them to design. Anyway, pretty sure they will add more group story content in the future, let the solo players have a little enjoyment too.
Personally I would prefer you were FORCED to join a group for this kind of content.
But not even giving people the OPTION to play with a group a people?!
Arena net, what are you thinking? You are making an MMO. Why are you making singleplayer ONLY content? Even the personal story could be done with groups.
Why are you forcing single player only content on people?
I play this game because I want to be interacting with other people, it’s an MMO.
You shouldn’t be forced to do anything. Forcing someone to do something they don’t want to do isn’t right or fun.
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Oh, and two solo instances isn’t necessarily a trend, sky hasn’t fallen yet…
Personally I would prefer you were FORCED to join a group for this kind of content.
But not even giving people the OPTION to play with a group a people?!
Arena net, what are you thinking? You are making an MMO. Why are you making singleplayer ONLY content? Even the personal story could be done with groups.
Why are you forcing single player only content on people?
I play this game because I want to be interacting with other people, it’s an MMO.You shouldn’t be forced to do anything. Forcing someone to do something they don’t want to do isn’t right or fun.
It’s my opinion and I’m entitled to it.
I think that group only content is better designed and more fun. It’s also more appropriate to an MMO then these singleplayer only instances.
Regardless, that wasn’t even the point of my post.
Personally I would prefer you were FORCED to join a group for this kind of content.
But not even giving people the OPTION to play with a group a people?!
Arena net, what are you thinking? You are making an MMO. Why are you making singleplayer ONLY content? Even the personal story could be done with groups.
Why are you forcing single player only content on people?
I play this game because I want to be interacting with other people, it’s an MMO.You shouldn’t be forced to do anything. Forcing someone to do something they don’t want to do isn’t right or fun.
It’s my opinion and I’m entitled to it.
I think that group only content is better designed and more fun. It’s also more appropriate to an MMO then these singleplayer only instances.
Regardless, that wasn’t even the point of my post.
Lol, well that was my opinion and I was entitled to it, so practice what you preach and let me say what I want hm?
Charr Lawful-Neutral
I really don’t like this – why are we being FORCED to group alone? It’s the same issue as being forced to group – forcing a part of the playerbase to do something they just don’t enjoy. Why can’t you just allow people in your party to attend the instance you open? What is wrong with the personal story method? I actually want to play with my friends AND my partner for new content. If I wanted a solo RPG experience I could play any of the countless COMPLETELY SOLO roleplaying games.
You can say that we can just all talk about our experience over TS or whatever but that is just a band-aid fix; there needs to be scaling content or content that you can do solo or with people if you please.
Oh, and two solo instances isn’t necessarily a trend, sky hasn’t fallen yet…
Two out of three living stories have had solo instances. Being able to group for Braham and Roxs stories were fine, don’t know why they changed the concept.
I am one of the soloers, so while I appreciate the inclusion of this type of content, I completely agree that there doesn’t appear to be any reason it can’t scale, ala Brahm/Rox, which worked fine for both soloers and groups. It should be something that players can tackle in the way they see fit to — alone or with friends/partners/guildies, etc.
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I am one of the soloers, so while I appreciate the inclusion of this type of content, I completely agree that there doesn’t appear to be any reason it can’t scale, ala Brahm/Rox, which worked fine for both soloers and groups. It should be something that players can tackle in the way they see fit to — alone or with friends/partners/guildies, etc.
Exactly, they had it great at the beginning when we could actually play with out friends, I hope the remaining instances in dragon bash and future instances give us the option to solo or group.
Also, I just realized, shouldn’t the title of this thread be “Solo story wrong direction” or “Solo story headed in wrong direction” just to be less confusing? XD
If you weren’t running the 2 minute instance solo the people you are with would insist on skipping the cut scenes to make it a 30 second instance. The story would then lose all story parts to it.
I think this solo story stuff is bad & wrong. What they did with the Flame & Frost story was great. The story telling was fun & great, easy enough for 1 person but also fun/scalable for 2+ people. Saying all that though….
Ending it on a dungeon wasn’t exactly a great way to end it, if anything it would of been nice to have a solo/5man option for it. But I loved that dungeon, it was fun & challenging & a blast to run over & over.
Personally I would prefer you were FORCED to join a group for this kind of content.
But not even giving people the OPTION to play with a group a people?!
Arena net, what are you thinking? You are making an MMO. Why are you making singleplayer ONLY content? Even the personal story could be done with groups.
Why are you forcing single player only content on people?
I play this game because I want to be interacting with other people, it’s an MMO.
I agree with this guy, even the bold part. I would rather be forced to group with strangers or invite friends/guildies to do this. But this lonely single player mode has to stop.
Its an MMO with millions of players to group with but the game is making me play it like a single player game – which it isn’t. Why this sudden change? Is it to keep all the those people who cried about having to socialise for the molten facility?
Oh look, people complain about instances always being group content so anet fix it, and then people start complaining that the single player instances aren’t group instances. They just can’t win.
yeah they can make it a group game.
Imagine the outcry in other games if people wanted Raids singleplayer only? “I don’t like that I have to raid with others, so for the next patch make raids a solo affair!” – “OK from now on raids can only be done in single player mode, no more grouped new content”
That would be crap and this is no different. Things have changed and not in a good way.