How important is player interdependence and how does it relate to community development?
Player interdependence is the key to community building. Friendships and alliances often form when a player needs another player to be more effective or to complete a task. This is the stuff that helps to form healthy, active communities. The real world isn’t made up of ‘jack-of-all-trades’; a virtual world shouldn’t be either. Different roles and responsibilities should exist. Many or most of those should offer a fulfillment of other characters’ needs. This will be especially true in our group areas and a must in our raid areas. We should emphasize, however, that interdependence shouldn’t be tedious, nor, in effect, a ‘denial of service’. In other words, if you can’t find someone to help you with a task one evening, there ought to be other things for you to do — perhaps something you can do on your own, or with fewer people, or with other characters you do encounter that evening.
Player interdependence is the key to community building. Friendships and alliances often form when a player needs another player to be more effective or to complete a task. This is the stuff that helps to form healthy, active communities. The real world isn’t made up of ‘jack-of-all-trades’; a virtual world shouldnt be either. Different roles and responsibilities should exist. Many or most of those should offer a fulfillment of other characters needs. This will be especially true in our group areas and a must in our raid areas. We should emphasize, however, that interdependence shouldn’t be tedious, nor, in effect, a ‘denial of service’. In other words, if you can’t find someone to help you with a task one evening, there ought to be other things for you to do — perhaps something you can do on your own, or with fewer people, or with other characters you do encounter that evening. 1.0.26 Some MMOGs have focused more on the sandbox or the virtual reality and simulation of real life aspec
