I always have to remember to mentally insert
"in my opinion" in front of Stabbey's comments, because he never does.
That would be kinda redundant since basically everything someone posts is "in their opinion".
The reason MMO's are grindy and boring is because they can't really give people the freedom that single-player ones have, because they have to keep all the content in place for brand new users. You can't have Esmeralda already in jail the first time a new guy fresh off the beach walks into her store. It's also not great being the second person or more entering a dungeon, seeing only corpses and looted chests (I've heard that Elder Scrolls Online actually has this problem). Sure, you can just make everything instanced, but that kind-of takes away the MM aspect of MMORPG.
Anyway, this discussion is pretty moot since with three days to release, Larian is not going to do the major design overhaul that would be required to make an MMO-Lite, even if they had any interest in it. We'll probably have to consider ourselves lucky if they release an official 4-player co-op mod.
