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Originally Posted by nicemace
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why do people seem to hate the ease of travel so much ??
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Ease of travel removed a lot of the utility of port classes (Dru/Wiz). Additionally, a lot of server community was formed during the downtime spent sitting around waiting for a port... Not to mention the inforced interaction with other players caused by having to ask for and/or donate for ports.
A lot of groups got formed, friends made, etc when players had to interact with each other for basic utility. This is also why the Bazaar is such a bad thing. Having to meet physically to transact goods, and actually interact with a non-afk player helped encourage community growth.
Granted, there was some bad that went along with this, such as scam artists doing bogus trades, and mean high-level porters who would take you to Skyfire Mountains instead of Lavastorm
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] but even those negatives helped promote community by giving folks more things to discuss in /ooc and /shout
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The more features that were added to make things easier for solo play (ie: self ports, soulbinders, afk selling, instances, mercenaries, etc) the more the community and player interaction that makes an MMO actually feel like a massive shared world went away and was replaced by small cliques and isolationist guilds.