Lets talk about the social aspects....

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Ayer2015

I talk in every run I do. I'm not saying that no one is social in the game, rather than it has become less social in DF, and on my server at least in hubs.
For instance, I started a new relic yesterday and of the 10 dungeon runs I did only 1 carried a conversation beyond hello. From my experience playing the game, people were simply more talkative prior.

---

Relics are such a tedious grind, most people just want it to be done with and aren't looking to be social. The initial A1S parties I joined when the light step was first introduced were a bit more jovial but after a while people were just there to get it done. And that demeanor is persistent through most content. As Vidu eloquently post earlier, DF has more or less become a chore. Dungeons scarcely require a pulse, so even if people do actually like a handful of them, they're still there just to cap for the week—like they've done every week. I wager you would see more interactions in dungeons if they weren't essentially the same thing four years later.

Ever since I rolled a char on Mateus, people are super friendly and chatty to me

I don't know what the OP is talking about people say hi and make jokes and use funny macros etc all the time in duty finder still.

eh, I think it's a generational aspect. the current generation trends towards echo chambers, cliques, and close knit, closed groups to an extent. that's probably a factor in the way that MMO's have shifted toward small, closed communities in addition to all the other things mentioned in this thread.

it is a shame to see less open conversations though.