Seriously, I don’t know how people is able to play in group on a quest-based MMORPG (at least, people say that here, that’s only on the early stages).
I tried to play with friends a few times, but there was this time when one of them had to go, and we just couldn’t keep playing without getting too far away, and thus, making him lose interest.
Also, there was this time when we were doing just what i said, and days later, another friend joined in, and we just couldn’t wait for him to catch up. In the end, we couldn’t do party stuff with him, because most of the stuff was questing and easy tasks for solo players, on which of course he didn’t need help at all.
I don’t really play with friends anymore, there is much more freedom just playing by yourself, on your own times instead of waiting or leaving in order to catch or let others catch up.
This is a serious personal question, i haven’t been able to enjoy playing MMORPGs with friends since the days of endless grind on Lineage 2.
Solo-friendly and quest-based MMORPGs kind of killed the whole thing for me.
Thankfully there are MOBAs, on which people can just join in and have full cooperative action since the first day.