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Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer
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By the way, I forget which year it was, but it was during the classic era, at the annual fan faire, SOE set up a joke forum called "soloing in Everquest." It had a bunch of seats set up, but no speaker announced, just a sign announcing the forum topic. Was funny. If I did some googling I could probably find a photo of it.
The original "vision" really was to not solo and to incentivize group adventuring. I admire that goal immensely, but of course, this gameworld is now old and so we do all kinds of things with it.
But it is true, I think, that one of the failures of subsequent mmo's is to figure out how to incentivize grouping. I spent 5 months or so playing SWTOR at release until I realized, wtf, this is just a single player game with a lame mmo aspect tacked on.
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Hah, nice.
My thoughts on soloing in MMOs: it's kinda lame, sure. But I can't get enough of it. It's like... soloing in a game that was intended for you to want (or even need) groups is just the best. Single player games designed as such? Playing them solo is just playing them. But solo baldurs gate or solo stuff in an MMO you're supposed to need a group for? It's different, better for me, worse for some.
Puzzle solving maybe? Some players just love figuring out how to make something work that wasn't supposed to?