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I was just reading the big Solo vs Grouping thread and a thought occured to me that perhaps there are two factions here. I'm a grouper, personally, but that stems from my roleplay background. I've been playing tabletop games for the past 20 years, everything from Paranoia to Call of Cthulu and Cyberpunk. Whenever I play an MMO I look at my roleplay background of teaming with a group of other 'characters' or players and moving through the content. It just feels weird not to. That's why we have different classes, right? So we can interact with and help each other in different ways.
So I was wondering, is the solo gamer lacking this background? Do they prefer to solo because they come from a gamer background, where they play alone in single player games and have never encountered the need.. or desire.. to team up with others to overcome an encounter?
Obviously there are going to be people with a RPG background who likes to solo in MMO's, and vice-versa, but overall, how do the two compare?