Quote Originally Posted by koko-on-da-forumz View Post
That's true, but I haven't played any MMO completely absent of private instances, going all the way back to the early 2000s.
You'd have to go back to EverQuest from 1999 to 2002. The Lost Dungeons of Norrath expansion kind of blew our minds. We were used to camp and grind and contested open world content before that.