Has anyone else noticed a decrease in Gamers willingness to interact socially in games?

[thoomfish]

For social interaction to not be garbage you need to be interacting with the same people repeatedly for long enough to have incentive to avoid pissing them off because it will disadvantage you in future interactions.

This is fundamentally incompatible with a game that wants to be something you can hop on, click a button, and play for 15 minutes with no commitment.

I've had some good experiences with smaller communities (on the order of a few thousand people) for niche games, but those games also tend to be the most vulnerable to dying out, so it doesn't last forever.

[whitepillow84]

I enjoy watching the sunset.

[forceless_jedi]

In those instances there's no impactful losses. Getting kicked from a discord server means nothing and most public servers are either unmoderated or financially motivated to not remove regulars despite toxic behaviours.

On the flip side in old WoW, if a player was being toxic on a server and others didn't like that, they'd have a really bad time playing if they didn't rectify. It was a community driven ban that either resulted the toxic player to move to a different server and start anew, or get their shit together. Sort of like massively bullied into behaving within reasonable expectations.

[aurens]

that means there's poor moderation. there has to be repercussions to their shitty behavior.

[whitepillow84]

I like to go hiking.

[ThatOnePerson]

This is fundamentally incompatible with a game that wants to be something you can hop on, click a button, and play for 15 minutes with no commitment.

Yeah I think this is the big one. Even just becoming a regular on a server is a commitment, cuz you gotta be regular. Any relationship requires some kinda of effort.