Well, it's for sure gonna drive some of the remaining peeps away....so many queues you can never get into already if you are pugging. Yes you can play this game for free...but you can only queue a couple missions and expect not to wait 1/2 hour or more. I know there are channels like PESTF and such but I'm not sure I only want to play with those guys.
Teamwork is the key and most missions can be accomplished...but I haven't even ever finished 1 build to a level that I can really even consider helping newer players/builds. Example with my toons...I started 3 after release of DR and there is almost no hope of getting them to be really useful to a team, only top dogs get good drops...can't get rep gear doing normal missions etc etc
All this is to increase company funds, stupid when the player base is dropping faster than stock market crash
LOL there goes the NWS fm farming
I must say I do like the IDEA that only TEAMS can do the hardest missions, but they obviously think only the chosen few (whales in industry terms) deserve to have fun playing the game