New P99 = instanced?

[salimoneus]

Aren't all the new raiding rules basically moving towards an instancing scheme? With the guild tiers, server repops, additional repops, it basically results in handing out loot to any guild that wants to make an attempt, even though there are more capable guilds that are being prevented from going after those same mobs.

So that's reserving mobs for a specific group, while disallowing others a shot at those same mobs. Sounds a hellova lot like instancing to me. And I thought being non-instanced was a fundamental part of what made EQ so much fun back in the day, the open shared-world nature of the game. Otherwise how does it really differ much from WoW?

Are people really happy with this new scheme? Sure I see some good numbers online, but could it be the impending release of Velious giving the population a boost? Do people have the same feeling of accomplishment when taking down a boss, knowing that they didn't really earn it the hard way, because it was handed to them?

I wonder how Velious is going to play with this new instancing.