I agree Cyninja. I think a lot of the problem is that there are too many games, servers, things to do, in a theme park type mmo that spreads the content over wide areas and with a thinning population you kind of have to make a lot of solo content because of it. The more content you make, the more you spread out your base, the more difficult group content becomes. Dungeon groups are practically non-existant due to newer content and their drops are obsolete. Personally, i believe making expansion content and forcing your player base out of older content makes it difficult for newer people without the extra content and forces them to purchase newer content, a ploy most certainly.