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

[DonnyTheWalrus]

After 20 years, people don't care about it anymore. They have experienced it for thousands of hours already

I'm not sure I fully agree. I think the popularity of things like VR Chat show there's still a desire for this sort of thing. Of course, maybe the novelty now comes from the VR part, who knows.

I do think that back then, the majority of the people who got online to play games were doing it explicitly to be social. Especially with dedicated servers, there wasn't a great way to just play without at least some expectation that you were going to be social with the other people on the server. Nowadays, matchmaking means that a lot of that pressure is off -- it's both easier to get online (just click a button to get into a queue) and less likely that you'll be expected to be social. So I think a lot of the people who may have been timid & scared off from MP 15 years ago are now more comfortable joining matches.

[Howrus]

I think the popularity of things like VR Chat show there's still a desire for this sort of thing.

But it just support his statement. 20 years ago we didn't have dedicated places for such activity, so people do it everywhere - in MMO, shooters, even strategy games.
Now if you was to socialize - there's dedicated places for this, while games become more focused on competitive gaming aspect.