"I dislike how they pretty much killed off the social aspects of the game by making it solo heavy in the part that matters of an MMO which because WoW got popular and sparked interest in the mainstream crowd in the west, became the "standard" for MMOs to follow, thus basically killing off what MUD/MMOs used to be about. "

I played WoW for a year on 2 of the biggest (well only) RP servers with RP on it. WoW has several RP servers and pvp-RP servers. And no one really rps very well. Everyone chooses off lore things, or does ERP and tries to justify it.

Getting for help or getting friends to join you on quests is non existant. Even my boyfriend who was farther then me said, "why bother you can solo" I just didn't want to play alone.

That mentality is leaking into ffxi and ffxiv. It shouldn't be weather you can/can't solo. It should be about the fun of doing it with friends or ppl who end up your friend. I much rather do things with others (solo able or not) then to play an MMO by myself.