Quote Originally Posted by Xatsh View Post
But every mainstream mmo has bastardized group play as just something that is a side item until endgame... which is completely against what I feel is the main things about a mmo the group aspect. That is what kept me on FFXI instead of a jumping ship to a mainstream mmo. I just makes no sense to make a multi player game mainly solo.
There's actually a very good reason why modern MMOs have moved away from the whole forced grouping aspect that was so prevalent among older MMORPGs.

While it's true that the whole idea of making these games online in the first place was so you can play with other people, the first MMOs showed us that if you have forced grouping, then there will be times when you will be unable to play at all simply because you can't find a group, or the people in your group are too incompetent to make playing the game any fun. Not to mention the huge timesink forced grouping always turns an MMO into.