"golden pants of haording +3" i like instancing especially for the people that i generally play any of these types of games with since it is a small group of people that can go in and do whatthey need too without someone comming along stealing the kill and then having to roll for the prize you was after in the first place

But you can certainly take instancing overboard... like guild wars, where you never see anyone that isn't in your group. The ones I really don't like are when they have multiple instances of the areas in the open world, again like Guild Wars, or Tabula Rasa or Conan.

Instancing is the backbone of MMORPG if you ask me. You have the whole world to interact with the rest of the assholes. You need those instances to build bonds with the few people that you want to interact with on a regular basis.

I do believe that in games like WoW they should enact a Lvl cap for Instances tho. I am tired of seeing and being asked to run a low lvl thru an instance that he should be in a group for but dont wanna take the time to do it like I had to back in the day. It would mean more to the guy if he actually had to fight to get the loot instead of someone running him thru...