Originally Posted by
Mosotti
None of those hurt any community. People don't want to interact with you because you suck at something. It's like blaming Facebook for the lack of real interaction. People that LIKE to be social, are still being social, that's it. Those that aren't comfortable with it, well, they have a way of dealing with things that suit them better. For example, I hated to look for a fucking tank for 2 hours, just to have the healer go when we got a tank, so yeah, LFD didn't break any community, the community was already fucked up in regard to gameplay. LFD only made the actual GAME playable
A great community like that pictured by the pre-LFD fans / freaks, wouldn't have "fallen apart". But there was no great community, and life sucked. Sure, those loving to chat instead of fucking playing the game, took a hit, because now people can actually play something related to the GAME instead of chatting waiting 3 billion years to form a dungeon group. But there's also Yahoo Messenger and the other things for doing that, so maybe they were using the game for the wrong purpose...
You might want to stop comparing two completely different games. As for the 500k people in Eve, when I tried it there were never more than 40k online at once.