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I think people fail to consider that some want to play with their friends in the absence of others, and some just want to play with their friends no matter where it happens. Among those latter people are people who'd end up forming friendships with people they wouldn't otherwise if they were just following their friends into the houses that make up all of their activity.

It doesn't even have to be intentional exclusion, it doesn't have to be malicious. If you don't incentivize people sharing spaces over just being holed up, this place becomes once again super new player unfriendly, as if it wasn't bad enough as is. Some of the people who otherwise would be in these public spaces will just go "Well, people are here so I'll go there instead."

Really don't want to see a return to the days where everyone was in their own custom landscapes talking ill of the public scene as if it was some form of taboo because people have started denying there was an issue ever there.