I haven't played any MMO that seriously but how serious are people when they role play? Like , doesn't everybody like to dress up cool? Do that many people sacrifice that desire and dress up like pirate mobs/henchemen wearing rags while letting one dude dress up cool just becasue he's the leader? Or they simply don't have access to fancy looking stuff becasue they are starting out and the game has no micro transaction, making everything locked behind grind? Or, said grind turned into some type of pyramid scheme and it's impossible for a solo player to get anything / keep them from getting robbed without the help of guilds? That's horrendous game design.