Originally Posted by
Otiswhitaker
In my case, it's just extreme social anxiety, and not wanting to use vent and the like with strangers, or feel that I'm being judged by people I'll have to "deal with". It'd seriously cause me to have a panic attack, and I play the game to relax and have fun. I know people will laugh at me and insult me for that, but that's absolutely the only reason I don't do stuff like that, as a fairly skilled player.
Other reasons I could imagine for other people, would be that it's hard to find a "team" so to speak, that wants their class and role, along with scheduling. There's many reasons people don't do that stuff.
Look at the statistics on raiding. Very few people do it. Below 5% at the worst of times, around 20% or so at the best of times. You can't chalk all of that up to skill. You can't even, I imagine, chalk a majority of it, even, to just skill. Hell, there's probably more people who simply don't know raiding EXISTS than there are people who are not doing it from the "lack of skills", or whatever.