To be honest I agree with the people who are saying this game takes away from socializing. It really does, unless you have premade groups from your LS/FC then you are pretty much isolating yourself from everyone and trying to play an MMO as a single player game via DF. Sign up in DF solo, do your stuff, be done with it. You can grind pretty much every content this way. Want endgame loot but don't want to be bothered with statics? Just buy the win, plenty of sellers out there. It's almost like the game forces you to either play with a small group of friends or play solo. There's no real open world content to do as a group that has any benefit to it. But alas no need to worry.. you might not have to socialize with people anymore. Remember Yoshi P stated that you will be able to take NPC's from your GC into dungeons with you and "level them up". So now you won't even need to bother with DF groups.