It did?
It won't be over until every filthy stinking solo player is ground in to the dust!
(feel free to swap solo player with the mode of your choice in the interests of keeping the thread going to 1000 pages)
Think the Solo vs Open is only in ED, just look at the nonsense going on in other games...
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/17085899378?page=1
This is why folks are trying to get out of MMO mode. Having encountered the same nonsense in a random BG before is why solo isn't a luxury or simply an option. The nastiness these guys attract from their so-called supporters (notice the white knight defending the practice [at least he's "polite" on the forums. Otherwise they'd scream to kill yourself, literally]?), is in itself the reason solo is no longer optional.
When a 30+ player mob enters a zone even with all the phasing "tech" Blizzard implemented in the game, and it locks up an i7 computer as all the particle effects for an entire 40 man raid are in one tight ball of vectors that g-l-i-d-e across the screen -- and it's not banned in public groups -- heck, yeah solo is the only way to play now. Especially when you report the nonsense and customer service sends you a forum letter about it's not against the ToS (I have 3 accounts and multi-box with family, the last thing I needed CS to do is to tell me they didn't even check what account they're responding too to begin with). -_-
There's no sense of respecting boundaries anymore in this "anything goes" gaming world these days, that reflects the lack of mores/ethics in RL now, too.
When I went to Steam looking for a WoW replacement for 6.1, I wasn't looking for being forced to play yet another PvP MMO soap opera. The game had to have a solo alternative that didn't gimp the solo player (or forced them to only play in one corner of the map while sociopaths dictated how the game is run -- not when my money is equal to their money they're not! They want welfare? Goto their own RL government for it, not steal RL money itself! EQ2 and EvE both have that ugly game mechanic of "player controlled" territories, which turn into hell holes of inflated egos in the end).
Been there, experienced that, no more.
$60 buys a player 1 vote, not 100 with CCP (or Blizzard sockpuppeting) like devs clearly manipulating the game to benefit one group/mode/game direction.
It isn't about "easy mode", it's to be free of the stupidity of sociopaths who don't respect even basic civility.