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Originally Posted by lonmoer
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the 'no chatting' thing always baffled me in newer MMOs. Why don't people feel compelled to talk?
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Maybe you just want to finish this dungeon quickly and get back to doing ___________, so you neglect socializing in order to speed up the process. Oh shit, you didn't get that drop you wanted, better do the dungeon again, but faster this time because you really have to go and do that thing sitting in the back of your mind. Whoops, no drop again, but hey you did it two minutes faster than last time. If only the tank didn't stop to talk so much between pulls. Maybe the next tank will be more focused on the task at hand. Oh yeah, five minutes faster that time, the whole group was on point.
and so on. WoW is just a series of effortless routines. There's no danger, no risk in wiping; it's easy to zone out and play the game like a zombie, and socializing gets in the way of burning through those routines. Once you build up those habits, they're hard to break, if you even want to break them in the first place, since breaking them will reduce your pixel hunting efficiency.