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Honestly tho we have lost the social aspect of MMOs. Back when WoW came out you didn't have shit like Discord, where all communication for every game lives now. At best you had TeamSpeak but for the most part communication was done primarily in the game. Combine that with zones and quests that have you killing the same mobs for hours in an empty field and people actually chatted quite a lot more than they do nowadays. We've kind of optimized out the natural communication in MMOs and idk if we'll ever be able to get it back really.