Quote Originally Posted by hours View Post
Is the concern towards socialization WHILE raiding or can those two be independent?

Because all of my friends, whether they are the RL ones who play on different servers or the few in-game ones on my server, play to socialize with other people and all of them avoid raids like the plague. I am the only person who is constantly raiding and playing alone. Them? They just use the game as a chatroom.
Very true... I can understand wanting to use these games for socializing I think. Personally, I had gravitated toward the "RP" type servers when those were a popular thing in these games, even though I'm not really in to RP. I just enjoy having people around that like to socialize and found that people on those servers people liked to talk more. Faeblight server in Rift was a RP server, but very little RP went on in the day to day activities there. There was RP to be found, but most people there were just others that didn't mind RP and might or might not have actually done any themselves. But usually they found the game itself to be a social outlet.

In a way, I find many just like to be a cat, lala, or whatever and play around as their avatar. Whatever these games evolve in to in the future, whether raiding as we know it goes away or not, we obviously have quite a few people that still play these things, I just wish there were more activities that were fun. It seems like most people find things like the various farm activities a bit mundane. While those same people might find raiding too extreme, maybe there is some middle ground that developers could figure out.