They probably could be decoupled to some degree, but it's the grindy/pvp games that are popular. The result of this is that the interactive world aspect of onl

They probably could be decoupled to some degree, but it's the grindy/pvp games that are popular. The result of this is that the interactive world aspect of online games have advanced remarkably little. Instead we get some minimal interactive world features added into successive generations of grindy/pvp games.