What is everyone opinion on the gaming forcing you into grouping for content?

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Soloable mmos have truly been a plague on the genre, if this is the common thought process for party play

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Alternative is to find a group of people that can play at the same time every day, even if it's just for 1-2h. I could do these with people of all ages and all types of "family situations" throughout my 12 years of playing an mmo.

Ashes will already be primetime-based, so even 2h of primetime gameplay will provide some good progress to those who can only play those 2 hours.

And if you can play way more than 2h - find several groups of people that are interested in different parts of the game (so that you don't outpace your other groups in their preferred content). Or hell, have several alts that can progress at different times.

To me playing an mmo solo or in a small group means barely any progress and reward (if any at all). Those who're fine with that will already have their fun in Ashes. But those who expect more should be shit outta luck imo.

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Afaik early games had "playing solo" as almost a challenge, because the game was exactly NOT built for that. Could you do it? Of course. But your progress and reward were low as hell.

And Steven wants to go in a similar direction, while maybe not going as far. Which is exactly what I'm saying. Solo progress is slow as hell and/or horizontal (though imo even this should be fairly limited), while group progress is flying.

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I'm gonna make my own node guild and help anyone in my node to progress. And I want the game to push those people to me, so that I don't have to go look for them

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What are "hunting grounds"?

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I didn't have it because the last reference to that term was 2 years before I even learned about the game

Also, where exactly have they said that it's gonna be solo friendly? Or are you basing that judgement on the currently presented mobs?