Quote Originally Posted by Fuddy View Post
This is actually the biggest flaw with old style MMOs and one of the biggest sources of their lack of appeal. Forcing people to form groups makes the time it takes to complete content take a billion jillion times longer. Hence the Duty Finder and Party Finder which make this easier. I'm not saying that this kind of content shouldn't exist. It SHOULD and it DOES in the form of endgame raid and maybe Extreme primals. But, this should not be "most content" because MOST players don't have time for that. It's part of why your beloved 1.x died and deserved to die. If you like that kind of thing XI still exists.
If people don't have the time to invest in a something, why the hell are they even doing it. I just don't get this way of thinking. This is a genre that has its roots in party play. Its party play that help build and promotes community, it also help police the community to a point. You can't be an ass if there is consequences to your actions, that's why I loved mmos before they started the cross server crap, you could have friends and rivals and jackasses either shaped up or would be blacklisted by the community. Now we have complaints of a 'toxic' community because there is no repercussion to being an ass, because there is a good chance you will never see that person again.