I didn’t interact much with other players in general. I found it difficult to engage with other players, and as a result I kind of gave up. The method of speaking made it difficult to do things and talk at the same time, which I wasn’t a huge fan of. However, I did convince my little brother to download the game so we could play it together. After a significant struggle to get both our avatars in the same place, it ended up being pretty entertaining, although the game didn’t really feel designed for two players. We both kept going off and doing different things because the tasks we were doing were not team based. We used the app Discord to talk to each other. It is an app used by gamers to interact when playing games that don’t have easy ways to chat with other players. My brother described it to me as “a bunch of big group chats”. You can do audio or just text and my brother and I decided to use the audio function so we wouldn’t have to stop the gameplay every time one of us wanted to say something. It did enhance the experience, I felt more excited and willing to explore all aspects of the game.
It interested me to see the various groups and leagues because I preferred to play the game on my own. I think it must be a very different experience to play it while belonging to an in game group. I also noticed a fair bit of in-group out-group mentality based around these guilds. They like to have a feeling of exclusivity and as a result, anyone in the out-group was inferior. No surprises there, but it was interesting to see some based on real world nationality. The only way to determine if they were or weren’t of that nationality was by just taking the word of the player. The restriction had absolutely nothing to do with the game and was just a way to create a faux sense of community. Overall, I didn’t explore the multiplayer side of things enough to find any real benefit, and stuck with playing on my own.