Quote Originally Posted by Sanne View Post
Isn't it the same with old group grinding?

[... many good points ...]

Anyway that is what I believe.
Agreed that questing and sociability are not dependent on or opposed to each other. You can have both. You can have neither.

Being with good company can make even the most boring activities more bearable... perhaps even fun!


One of the biggest problems seems to be that many people believe "all the good stuff happens at endgame".

They are so focused on getting to level cap as quickly as possible, that everything up to that point becomes the "grind". They see the process of leveling up as just preventing them from having their fun sooner.

Of course we can't start people at level cap, so having a variety of ways to level up should make it more enjoyable. That is one thing ARR will have going for it -- a wide range of activities and ways to level up from the start, aside from simple and short quests. After all, it had 2 years of beta development. ^^;