MMOs 'don't give people the tools to build community anymore,' says EverQuest 2 creative director

Kyle Vallee, creative director for EverQuest 2, is a huge fan of MMOs and has played basically all of them—but he thinks the genre has lost its way in one respect. The sense of community early MMOs cultivated is being sidelined, he says. 

"They seem to have lost that [community focus] in other MMOs, the community has become not a big part of it," Vallee told me at Flippy Fest, an EverQuest anniversary celebration developer Daybreak Games recently brought me out to San Diego to attend. "It...