Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
That makes little sense, solo play does not equal whatever this current chase to make everything as simplistic as possible is.
It's pretty simple, they don't want fans of the MMO or RPG genres because there's not nearly enough of those people on the planet Earth to drive Growth™.

Therefore they are targeting everyone else, launching harpoons in every direction to try to spear as many passing sea-creatures as possible while chumming the waters with the most inoffensive and encouraging content they can manage to engineer. The game is being laced with pellet-dispensing red buttons like a building being rigged for demolition so that all the lab mice squeaking and running around the maze in Bulbasaur T-shirts will stick around through every 6.45 yet to come.

MMORPG fans were the base agar plate that SE needed to get their ARR lab experiment growing, and Yoshida-san now bows politely and thanks you very kindly for providing the game with seed money and nutrient materials for those shaky early years.

However, your purpose has been served, thank you very much! Now please step aside, there are many more promising customers in the queue behind you.