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Originally Posted by cd288
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You literally don’t need any other mechanical change to the game to make grouping the goal of players besides a group exp bonus. Just give a group a bonus that scales depending on amount of players in the group and their respective levels. Problem solved.
The fact of the matter is that any mechanical changes you make to gameplay to try and make things harder will eventually be overcome by players to some or all extent. The simple fact will remain that solo exp is faster and so no one will group.
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The only thing this does is force people to group. FFXIV forces people to do groups and even raids for the main story quest yet literally no one speaks - despite people droning on about "community" - which is just their friends and guildmates they've deliberately sought out. It's fine for the sake of story, but it doesn't build community. If forcing grouping is your goal then why not make it impossible to get exp solo? Then people can group, never speak and level up. (* Forgot to mention FFXIV, as with all themeparks, is piss easy.)
Making the game more difficult and requiring grouping in certain circumstances advocates an organic formula for socializing. No one on the planet remembers any given group they had in a themepark MMO, but I remember some random Japanese guy helping my dumbass 14-year-old self too stupid to use auto-translate go through Korroloka Tunnel and finish the quest to unlock Ninja in FFXI. Why? Because you can't solo it at level 30, which is when you unlock advanced jobs. If I could have solo'd it then I wouldn't remember it at all, and it'd be meaningless to me. Forcing people to group for the sake of grouping is similarly meaningless. No more meaningless than my argument though, since classic is classic.
As for people overcoming mechanical challenges... if players couldn't then why even play? But making the content harder doesn't make it a "fact" that soloing will still be better, it makes soloing harder because the game is harder, and any mistake or poor luck while soloing results in heavy drawbacks compared to grouping.