Team Rooms

[Garnet_Moon]

Another room to fill with laundry machines, cosmo fountains, foul-mouthed parrots and lilipas? Count me in!

[Blackheart521]

Are you trying to summon forth the .hackers?

haha they already did, I was a member of the .hackers team, it got really inactive though so I just left.

[Jonth]

I'm actually not a fan of the idea of guilds/teams simply due to what they tend to do to game communities in my experience (Hello, arbitrarily-established insularity), so when a game DOESN'T have them, I consider it a selling point. Granted, since I'm treating PSO2 as essentially a solo affair anyway, it doesn't matter as much here, but I can say that the lack of 'Teams' was one of the few positives that caught my eye with PSU...

I'm not trying to say your ideas are wrong or anything, but why play an online game? In my experience offline single player games tend to be more fun, except for the comradery and ability to play with other people.

[GoldenFalcon]

Another room to fill with cosmo fountains

This better be released in the next Fun Scratch. Seriously

[SaiKo]

I'm not trying to say your ideas are wrong or anything, but why play an online game? In my experience offline single player games tend to be more fun, except for the comradery and ability to play with other people.

If you're referring to the "Why play an online game if you dislike guilds?" bit, it's because I like the idea of playing with the entire community and not having everyone arbitrarily divide themselves into cliques that they hold in higher esteem than everyone else. Basically, my philosophy is to play with everyone, find the individuals you enjoy playing with, play with those people, find the ones amongst those you get along with the best, and eventually settle down on a group you enjoy playing with the most.
So basically, let a group form naturally by experiencing the entire community... In my experience guilds work the other way around. It becomes about the 'group' that someone just happens to join for whatever reason, and the individuals simply come along with it. And I'm not fond of that... I can't tell you how irked I'd get in Guild Wars with the "**** PuGs. Guild groups or GTFO" mentality that arose.

But anyway...
If you're asking why I play this game if I'm going to solo...

A) The PSO name. As I've mentioned before, I don't actually enjoy the game too much, and I don't feel the structure its chosen lends itself to group play being all that fun. Had it not been called PSO2, I wouldn't have given this game a second glance, but it is, and I've installed it and put time into it, so meh... :-/

2) Convenience... The above would hold true for this game only, but in truth, I played GW and AIKA as pretty much solo affairs as well... In the case of the former, it was more because of the guild mentality that made PuGging difficult (especially with its structure being what it was) and the fact that I was simply playing to unlock HoM rewards and GWAMM for GW2 which was better done solo. In the case of AIKA, it was again associated with the guild-heavy community and the fact that I could go at the pace I desired a lot more readily on my own (plus my disdain for PvP which was a huge focus of the game). So I just did my own thing and generally treated the multiplayer aspect as being "Community AH and Chatroom".

III) Weird quirk. If you don't want to get into how neurotic I am, just leave it at that. >_>

Spoiler!

I actually put a self-imposed ban on all new games on myself until I can get all the achievements in Geometry Wars. This was in... 2ØØ7 or 2ØØ8. Problem is... I hate that game. Vehemently. I don't enjoy games of that type, and it literally causes me migraines because of its aesthetics. So I refuse to touch it. I made an exception to my ban for the sake of Guild Wars, simply because I figured that "If I ever do get all the achievements, I may want to play GW2. But I won't play it if I don't have access to whatever the HoM unlocks. So I have to work on my HoM in anticipation of the possibility that I will play it."

This somehow lead to me justifying trying out F2P games (which granted, never should have happened), and so on... And eventually I found out that an event was going on in PSU in which getting the most annoying of the AotI achievements (the existence of which pissed me off since it spit in the face of my 1ØØØ/1ØØØ score) would be far easier. So I subscribed to finally take care of those achievements since the whole Geo Wars thing started because of an obsession with maintaining a perfect achievement score anyway... And it just reinforced my "ORPGs are OK" exception and it just carried on from there. :-/

But even though I've cheated, I've still maintained my ban on any single-player games and/or console games that I don't already own. So... yeah... <_<
Until I can be arsed to suffer through Geo Wars in the vain hope of getting the two remaining achievements I need, I won't be playing Single-player games... This was initially really really hard to stomach, but in recent years, I've become so distanced from the direcetion the industry has gone anyway that I don't really feel like I'm missing much. ;-/

[Kirukia]

If said team is big enough, does it expand and get its own field area?

That would be awesome. Like .hack//GU

[eharima]

Team Rooms != Lobby Clean up huehue!

[Enforcer MKV]

Team Rooms = Lobby Clean up

If that happens, I really can't complain. (yes, I know I edited it, but still.)

[Kylie]

Hmmm, I love teams. Obviously. But, I haven't made one on PSO2... yet.

[Jonth]

@Saiko, I was refering to "Why play online games, if you're going to treat it as a solo affair", so A answered it for me. I also have to say I understand becoming distanced from where the industry is heading, as I personally find myself liking fewer and fewer new console games.