Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
>> We removed the need for friends in order to see content, which is awesome
Anyone else that feels that this philosophy of not needing other people to play an MMO is absolute ... shite?
Disclaimer: I'm literaly aversed against the philosophy that not needing friends (wether they are RL or online friends, made in the game) are not needed to see content. Wether they added the -option- to do it with other people (who are just a bunch of randoms) is beside the point. It just rubs me the wrong way how he said it was 'awesome'. I don't like the whole 'let's turn this mmo into a single player experience'-philosophy. Getting bunched up with a bunch of randomly selected people in a queue does nothing good to the game, nor does it make a game an MMO. If that was the case then SimCity can be called an MMO too.
They removed the social aspect of the game when they removed the need for people to 'get to know' other people and 'make friends' with them.
Do not take this OP out of context by assuming I'm Greg-bashing or am misunderstanding what I quoted. I guarantee you, I didn't.