No, the point is that lots of us interact socially with people BY playing video games. But the fact that it's a video game is meaningless. You didn't even address the scenario I presented, if you go out somewhere and they treat you like shit are you going to continue to go there? Better yet, the bar regularly plays rock music, which is why you go there, you like rock. But suddenly, to try and get more customers, the owner starts playing country, which you hate. Are you going to continue going to the bar? Are you going to ask the manager why, after you've been a patron for 3 years, he suddenly starts playing music you and all your friends hate? Or are you going to keep going to that bar and just deal with the bad music - meanwhile half of your friends have stopped going to the bar because they hate the music, too. So now you have to deal with less of your friends being there and listen to bad music. You can take this analogy to literally anything. It just so happens that Destiny 1 was my favorite game "bar" of all time. We've tried other games "bars" but simply nothing is as good as what our favorite game "bar" used to be. Sure, maybe we can start taking Yoga classes together on Friday nights, I hear that's good for the soul, too. But I'd rather fight to get the game "bar" back that I loved so much.