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All sarcasm aside again the problem here is that the average joe who decides to try red99 will enter a world with almost no one in the newbie zones, no one to group with, is instantly flooded with awful ooc spam, and the first person he encounters is likely to be a deleveled twink ready to kill him and make a thread about his victory. While joe may have one or two friends, if they aren't playing with him he can't do much, and they better have a healer / chanter etc., or they can't accomplish anything. Thus joes group will burn out and quit. I've seen it happen 100x.

It's also why small guilds can't flourish. "We'd love to do plane of x but we are missing class y (cleric,wizard,enchanter,necro) so I guess we can't raid tonight," leading to people quitting or joining a Zerg guild.

If you can box then you can play even when those classes aren't on rather than log off,meaning more people online and more people to kill.