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Originally Posted by maestrom
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That's not an argument against instancing, that's an argument against random queuing in a dungeon finder.
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It is an argument against instancing, perhaps I should have elaborated.
Instancing makes the world more fragmented (obviously). In WoW's early days you instanced with the people who played on your server.... you had to worry about reputation because if you kept quitting after the first boss for that item you needed but didn't get then people won't want to play with you anymore. Then comes inter-realm instancing, where people didn't give a shit - it was just a grind for items or tokens or whatever. If the tank or priest didn't want to carry on at any point, people would be forced to quit or restart, but reputation didn't matter.
With EverQuest the same shit would apply. While overlooking the huge "not classic.gif" issue for a moment, people would want to solo content as much as possible to get their online economy sim numbers up. Literally there'd be some people perma camping seafuries, or bugs in their own Sebilis instances, or whatever rare item. Guilds could chain farm a Trakanon, VS, or whatever. Go out, come back in and restart nps.
It's so anti-EQ I can't believe the OP was suggesting it. The closest anyone else has come to saying it was (no surprises) Chest - who basically thinks everything can be solved by putting up more servers and allowing raid issues to go away that way.
Guilds at some level are forced to get along, or at least respect the thick rulebook - I think everyone would hate it if instancing hit.