Originally posted by Nogen:

You don't need more resource when you play alone. You need less resources for equipement, food, etc. It is no more grindy solo.

It may not be more grindy solo but a second player with only basic armor as a mule helps out with resource collection a lot. Same with smelting, brewing, cooking allthose little things are really really tedious if you are alone. If you cut down the grind to a minimum to make solo-play much more enjoyable you automatically kill the need for teamwork. That may be better for players like Tigro here but it is clearly not the way the devs want it to be.

It is, and will probably always be, a niche game and that is exactly it´s charme (at least for me).