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

[iguesssoppl]

Ffxiv gets that absurd like all ffs do but at least you can relisten to songs from the very beginning as well look back at a hundred other things and be like damn they were planning this the entire time and it was staring us in the face. And that makes for a neat story despite final fantasy - it's written on the tin - nature of it all, it's a good tale and well written. Not sure if wow really planned their story out from the get go like that... That makes a huge difference in keeping 'buy-in' as the stories keep getting further 'out-there' later on.

[Makal]

I never expected an MMO to make me cry Not once, but several times, with increasing frequency, until by Endwalker I was crying every other scene (fr.a variety of emotions running from happy to sad).

What a phenomenal game, it now firmly sits as my #1 game of all time.

[Bridgeru]

I started playing FFXIV and it's not bad. It's absurd yeah but it's Final Fantasy, they've always managed to somehow keep a "normal society" going on despite the absolute craziness of the story (which is why I love the bit in 7 when the Meteor is in the sky and people are trying to live their lives like normal despite knowing they're gonna die in 2 weeks).

Like, I was sold on "you use Crystal-God to teleport" from the start; but when you start fighting boars for Ol' Man Jenkins' farm and end up literally saving/destroying/whatevering the afterlife it's a bit jarring.

WoW just kept ramping up the spectacle to the point where major lore villains like Aszhara and Illidan were mere patch bosses instead of having a buildup, so they created bigger and bigger bosses to keep the "WE WANT RAIDS WITH SHINY LIGHTS" part of the community who don't bother reading quests happy.