Originally Posted by
Arashmin
This. This is what you need to consider if you see this as any sort of problem. The only peoples losing at all are SE not profiting from people becoming miserable with not being able to enjoy the majority of each patches' content without having to jump off and further depopulate already low-pop servers.
EDIT: That said, I hope they do also add an option to password a PF, because of how many people will be around and about for such things and to lessen opportunities for trolling.
Then that's a problem of the developers not finding good enough ways to address that, not the mechanic itself. If anything they wouldn't have kept introduced AND kept it around if it was actually the reason for the downfall. I feel it's misattributing what is effectively the proper lifecycle of an online game. Besides, minority misrepresenting the majority et al.