MMO developer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street posted a provocative tongue-in-cheek tweet on social media a earlier this year, homing in on how MMO players want other MMO players around – but don’t necessarily want to interact with them.
I definitely feel this way, and I don’t feel bad about either. I feel exactly the same way going to any big social space – a restaurant, a theater, an amusement park, the mall, the park. I don’t want it to be empty, but I don’t want to interact with everyone in sight, either. I want ambient social from most of these places, and MMOs are just one more. I want to choose the people in MMOs with whom I have deeper relationships.
And I bet that’s true for a lot of people! Give it a thought: How much of your MMO play time do you actually spend interacting with other players? And is that enough for you?
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