Would you play an MMORPG in the spirit of classic EQ?

[Kika Maslyaka]

Originally Posted by Sampten [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Instancing of raid content only would actually be good a good thing.

The mess that is FTE and poopsocking and what not is ridiculous.

This I would actually agree on.

Originally Posted by Saludeen

Nah, instances ruin the feel of the world. One great part of Everquest is running to a dungeon and finding other people there.

IMHO - the open world from perspective of individual players and pick up group is fine: you go to an open dungeon and get into 1 of the group already there, and groups have freedom or switching member if they need to leave.
RAID - is a whole different beast - they go after per-determined targets and there is no real picking up as you go like you can do with groups.
So unless you have MASSIVE raid content - raid instances placed in separate or sub-zones would actually make everyone happy. Nothing worse than sitting in XP group in a dungeon when there is a raid moving trough which slaughters everything in its path effectively interfering with your gameplay. Also, the instances don't have to be repoped every 24 hours - they could very well be 7 days repops or something.