The Importance of Relevance in Multiplayer Games

There's been some research to show that this is true of both other players like real people in a multiplayer game context but it's also can at least be true of fictional characters in a game. games scratch this itch when they have team-oriented goals for example or when they require cooperation with other players so this is a reason that massively multiplayer and even just not massively multiplayer games can be really appealing.