You may be right, Poxus, but WoW did a lot to make to lower-level content more accessible to new players (changing elite areas and bosses to nonelite so they can now be soloed). The original regions (i.e., "old Azeroth") are all but vacant of players. Trying to form groups for instances in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms is all but impossible nowadays.

Thus, Blizzard's "encouraging" players to form groups for these instances by keeping them as "player group only" in fact translates into players just not going into them, which is a shame, imo.

The same holds true for LotRO, though it is marginally better than WoW in some ways in this regard.

The game that "fixes" this problem first is probably where I'll end up.