Almost everyone wants to "skip" having to raid!

[Marael]

In over ten years of MMO playing, I have to say, that the big endgame things have always been my LEAST favorite aspect of the whole MMO experience. I hate the drama. I hate the everyone expecting everyone to be absolutely perfect. I hate the stress. I absolutely despise the requirement that I use third party voice chat programs. People say they make things easier... but to me they make them harder, more annoying, and far more frustrating. I hate the waiting in line for gear that never freaking drops. I hate having to be online at specific times to do specific things with specific people. I'm more of a spontaneous person and do not like being kept to a schedule in something I'm using to escape from reality where all there is is schedules, stress, and everyone expecting me to be perfect. It becomes more of a job than my actual job!!! These things are not fun to me. The events themselves may be entertaining, but the people I usually end up having to do them with, and the often ridiculous requirements they impose upon others to be able to participate in said event with them, are not. Thanks, but you can take your endgame crap somewhere else, I'll stick with what I find fun. When I first picked this game up, I promised myself that I was just going to stay the hell away from endgame, and that's what I plan to do, because I just don't need that garbage in my life again.

I'm 35. I have a wife, kids, a house and yard that need upkeep, and other hobbies. I'm not in high school or college anymore. When I have limited leisure time, I don't want to spend it putting up with all of the crap that made me quit most MMOs that I've quit. I don't want to feel like I'm going to another job, where I have to be on at a certain time to do a certain thing. You go right ahead and do that if you want, but I have better things to do with my time. The absolute last thing I want to have to do is put up with prima donna drama endgame BS. I've had enough of it to last a lifetime, and I want no more. I'm playing this game to have fun, not to be a babysitter and work at something more stressful than my actual career is. This game is pretty easy to play as though it's single player, and I'm okay with that. In fact, these days, I actually kind of prefer it. An MMO where I don't need a huge group to do the things that I want is exactly the thing I wanted.