Quote Originally Posted by Veet View Post
It somewhat reminds me of the early days of LOTRO when you had forced grouping roadblocks thown in front of you in order to advance certain epic questlines. Eventually that changed.
And where is LOTRO now? I picked that game up in beta, and played all the way up until about 6 months ago. F2P has killed that game, and the loss of focus on end game raiding content was utterly disappointing. The reason all of this happened? F2P Solo players are to blame. They spend the most money on the micro transaction store, and thus that's who development started favoring. This lead to a spiral of worse/less raid content which resulted in the loss of raiders, and then of course the auto-loot system, which was the straw that broke my back.

I just hope that SE can ignore the cries of solo players, because they are the bane of MMOs.