It becomes a thing where you are no longer a 'number' but a name, at least in your eyes and in the players eyes. One reason why some graduates choose small colleges instead of bigger ones, even if they are completly capable of getting into the bigger colleges and even if they offer better education. Which in the gaming world, would be choosing Wyvern over WoW, something all of us here have done for months or years now.
I said last night in game, because it hit me there, that you start to forget specific player names and etc. and start to remember player attitudes and personalities. The community is what drives this game and is what needs to be preserved, either in keeping the old (to an extent which is talked about in another form) to encouraging the young.
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