New world solution: Path of Exile

[shubla]

been suggested over 9000 times and devs have not shown their support to it..
I dont think they ever change their mind about these things.

[Reyajh]

I know when I first played Haven and till this world, I lived solo with a rl friend or two except for w7 or 8 for a brief period towards the end. I enjoyed the game playing the life of a scavenging, wandering, opportunistic hermit. The deeper truth of the matter is tho, that I knew any pvp combat was certain death for me because, for some damn reason , I could not get a decent handle on combat. Then they shrunk the size of the world considerably and I got mad and quit the game for over a year. My way of protesting. There was something about this game (A lot that I could point out, really) that drew me back to it however, and at the beginning of this world despite it's smaller size I said screw it and came back. I knew what their reasons for shrinking the world were and I have to say, it worked for me. Because of the people I met this world I learned vastly more than I did all the others combined. All that being said, there is still something about old Haven that I deeply miss... Exploring... New lands...
Personally, I feel like the game could benefit from something like what OP describes. But the game isn't my vision and I've come to trust that the dev's know their game best.