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Originally Posted by kuyzat
How are we going to find groups in Vanguard? Where will players gather? How crappy will server populations be at offpeak hours? Will we still be able to group at low and mid levels in server 1 or more years old?
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EQ2 really was a special situation because it failed so miserably (in no small part due to WoW) so that the only people playing after one year were the hardcore (and there weren't many of them).
In the original EQ, it wasn't hard to find groups for your low and mid-level characters 3 or 4 years after release.
I can't speak for WoW Europe, though I do think the segregation was strange. There are definately more than a few people on in the middle of the night on the US servers. Of course, this doesn't help as no one groups in WoW - until you hit high levels and have to get guilded.
Overall, though, the rise of the guild has hurt newbie grouping. So many people, especially compitent people, are in guilds - from day one (or in some cases, from day - (negative) 360) so they look to group with each other, leaving true newbies to group and progress more slowly so they are left behind.
So, I guess I haven't answered anything, Kuy. How do you convince people to do things that they don't want to do?