The opportunity cost for adding someone to your friend list in an MMORPG is pretty low. Like, it doesn’t take a great deal of work to just click the button to add people and see when they are online. But if you have played a game for a while it is quite possible – even probable – that you have added various people for reasons that made sense at the time but are now spurious at best, meaning you quite possibly have a friend list full of people whose names you remember only because they are currently on your friend list.
Of course, some games make friendship more involved or just give you a bigger reason to constantly be asking your friends if they have anything going on in terms of parties. But there are many games wherein I log in to find a list full of names I knew at one point but which mean nothing to me now. So which MMORPGs do you have the worst friend list cruft? Where are the games where you have a ton of names you don’t know any longer?
Every morning, the Massively Overpowered writers team up with mascot Mo to ask MMORPG players pointed questions about the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre. Grab a mug of your preferred beverage and take a stab at answering the question posed in today’s Daily Grind!
