Do you ever think about how people play games to escape yet...

[Melorie]

Or they openly talk about their irl issues & drama
like, please I didn't log on to learn this crap. it's probably why I have no friends but I'm here to do video game stuff

But isn't that how you make friends? Do you strive to have like a separation as of "gaming friends" and "real life friends"? I have meet many amazing people through FFXIV (and other MMOS), that are now part of my life. That's the beauty of social games.
At some point you can't talk about the game anylonger. There isn't even that amount of things to talk.
You're going to talk about the roulette every week? That sounds so boring.