Darn that pesky research proving your conspiracy theory wrong!
Forced grouping would mean I was back in EQ, where it could take 1min to 3hrs to find a group. Having to find a group, or 1 or 2 other people out of every couple missions to help take down a boss isn't forced grouping. Besides, go to your local contact, stock up on lucks and you shouldn't have much problem anyway.
Is there any chance Friends lists will gain it's own, err, "designator" so that we can assign it to it's own window tab? Having it spam me every time I zone becomes tiring after a while when it shoves other text such as tells/SG chat off the screen.
And, thanks much for the awesome job you folks do to keep this game kickin butt