@lordbelh said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
In real life socializing what you describe happens, too. And the natural inclination is for people to organically split up into smaller groups at their own tables (or even just corner of tables), and shadowy recesses, etc.
The equivalent in real life is that you go and sit at your table with your two friends, but another six people are standing in the middle of the room raising their voice so their volume is the same as the ones next to you.
If places were mandatory or there was a filter so you only saw what's happening on it then yes, that'd be true. I guess a spawned window might help.
But this isn't just me griping about a theoretical issue. You've been in those scenes and you've seen people go 'sorry, this is too big for me to handle' and leave, right?