Quote Originally Posted by Radacci View Post
I have never played XI no.
So enlighten me how claimable bosses are harder, and need more skill?
to quote you "And nothing is stopping other players from showing up and ruining your attempt at executing it in your fashion" so it's just a matter of your ego wanting to be 1 of few to kill it? which brings me back to my point, why even have it as open world content at all? lets just make it instanced, so god forbid, you're not forced to endure the community interfering with your business....in an MMO...
I've mostly been reading the thread, but when you said this I got an idea of why making everything instanced or poppable is actually bad. As a community it is often things like HNM camping or similar such things which bring us together and make for an active and varied game. To say, we're all players in the same game so to some degree what someone else is doing is your business. The items other people get end up being the ones you buy; this is direct result of whatever activity they chose to do and if they were to stop doing it, it'd be more obvious that one person's business affects that of another.

A major point of an MMO is community. Instanced material requiring only a single party of people you may know is fine, but it's important that there are things that also bring player's together in a way that is open and less confined in space/time. Sometimes it's fun to wait, anticipate and finally get the kill or see it.