Quote Originally Posted by karateorangutang View Post
Additionally, from a business standpoint. If all players are paying the same amount of money into a pot then all players should in essence be given the same service. This includes all things in the game. Isn't it SE's contractual commitment, as a service organization in this instance, then to make the experience as similarly enjoyable for all parties? I've never met someone that didn't get excited by a instant queue. I understand that that is the "status quo" in the MMO world. I don't buy though that any company or person should settle for that because its the "status quo".
The only thing SE is contracted to do is provide a service. "Enjoyable" is very subjective, because you may enjoy standing in the back and healing or spamming buffs, whereas I generally dislike that gameplay (one of the reasons I avoid playing healers). There's no guarantee of anything other than our ability to log on to the servers for the money we pay SE.

There are such things as structure and human nature, both of which determine the status quo. People don't like responsibility, so they'll go for the stuff that has the least responsibility in effective gameplay, which in MMO terms is the role of DPS. At rare times you have either mechanics making someone play a less popular role or the class concept overpowering that desire to avoid responsibility. This isn't something you try to force or manipulate. It's something that just happens, and you should keep in mind it won't happen all the time.

Personally, I'd like to return to a time when this was funny and something only an idiot would do, instead of having all tanks try to emulate it because design allows us to do so and we can get away with it.