Carbuncle.Maletaru said:
»Imagine playing a character for 20 years and having no attachment to their name, identity, or reputation. Psychopathic, if you ask me.
Plus, signed equipment...screenshots, lu shang+1, etc.
most people these days exist outside of the game they are playing. i.e if they are playing league of legends ARAM or something they are doing it in a discord voice channel with the friends they are playing with.
i'd assume the ingame chat systems are so infrequently used compared to 10 years ago, which makes your name relatively irrelevant most of the time.
i don't think anyone is saying that smaller server players should want there to be a merge, obviously having no competition on anything can feel kind of nice. however, i do not believe that is a healthy state of a game and will lead to more player attrition than not.