@m3tti @onepict WoW also highlights a big thing with virtual worlds, it's never the design as much as the people that keep you interested.
I left WoW fully a few years back because everyone I liked playing the game with had stopped playing. And various design choices were partly to blame but also, people had more compelling stuff to do outside the game so they stopped.
And, I definitely liked myself better when I was more immersed in the physical world so there's that too.