Quote Originally Posted by Xatsh View Post
I believe Yoshida said something like he does not want people who are not in guilds to be left out or something along those lines..
Yoshida has been on the stance that no one should be left out of anything for whatever reason since day 1, which has frankly caused more problems that it solved. In an mmo no one is technically locked out of anything, you just need to be able to meet the prerequisites. People complain about real life this and real life that, but that's just their own life and an mmo, which is meant to have hundreds of thousands to millions of players cannot cater to just you, something many do not understand.

If they would move away from the "everyone must be included from the start, regardless of how much time or effort they want to put in" they would solve many fundamental issues plaguing the game.