Why is race and nationality ignored so much in the lore? (why does the lore fail)

[Azurymber]

Must be why games like pokemon are so utterly unsuccessful, right?

The statement I quoted above must be the king of oversimplified generalizations and it's application to gaming is extramely limited, if not basically non-existant, especially to a genere like MMORPGs, given that many of their mechanics are firmly based on "monotonous, repeatitive tasks that take no skills".

Luckily for us all, there isn't "THE human brain", but "MANY human brains" and the human society isn't hive mind-based.

umm, pokemon is not a repetitive game in any way.

Repetition is hitting the same button over and over and over again for an hour without doing anything else while thinking about hitting that button.
Or holding a button down for 15 minutes experiancing something you have seen 100 times before