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 And the purpose of the MMO genre is to provide people who don't ordinarily get up and socialize with a way of doing so that does not actually involve getting up. It is a venue for social interaction first and foremost. 


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It's not 2004 anymore and MMOs these days can literally be played solo until you get to optional super end game raid content and even then the entry level raid stuff can be done with randoms to varying degrees of success. Hell, in SWTOR the game just now gives you a one-man raid team NPC to do the important dungeons with and even the non-important ones can be soloed with you and your NPC companions. 14 has implemented similar things as well. I'm someone who plays(ed) 14 and never found a permanent FC and so didn't exactly socialize outside of saying 'Hello!' in a random dungeon and still had a good time doing it. 

MMOs are single player friendly almost to their own detriment at times. In most cases, the social interaction in an MMO outside of a guild is muting general chat because oh no they're talking about racism again or whatever the fuck. Some people get enjoyment out of an MMO by treating it as a largely single player experience that just happens to also have a chat room attached to it; that doesn't mean an MMO's primary purpose is socialization