I like how you made the other side of the argument seem incredibly unintelligent to make your point better, but in the process made yourself look worse because of your apparent misunderstanding of the point of view of the other side. This world we're playing in is a connected world -- a [i]constantly[/i] connected world. One would assume that at any given time something one person or a group of people does/do could affect everyone else in some way. Because of this interconnection to everyone else playing the game, as well as the interdependence created as a result of this interconnection, you can't function in the world because your world is no longer accurate. The way I've had it described to me is that yeah, you COULD play World of Warcraft solo and with no one else there, but it'd be boring as hell and hardly anyone would utilize it.