I just sat in a dungeon the other day for 40 minutes just chatting during some downtime since the healer's router possibly exploded.

Usually conversations happen when there's a lull in things going on, I don't type in /p chat besides saying my hellos and farewells unless we're stopped since... I'm not someone who can type while pushing my CD's simultaneously.

It's easy to be social if someone wants to be, plenty of opportunity to be social with your FC, Linkshells, and, at least, servers with RP on them seem to be pretty social if you go out and try to be social. That's how I've made a lot of close friends, over the years.

And plenty of whispers turned into conversations, just because someone liked my character or what have you.

If I, as someone with severe social anxiety, can find and be social in this videogame then so can someone who actively wants to be social in it.