Fair enough, it's just something that most online games I have played like this have.
In this case it is a web based game, so using face book chat, or text messages isn't that bad. But for me I only have a few people I know in game, and in a lot of cases I would prefer not to give out my MSN/Yahoo/FB/Text messages to people I casually meet in the game.
I guess to me, it's something the game will want before I would personally consider it a true MMO. Yes I know I am new to this community, so maybe it's something that isn't that big of a deal for most people, but I know it would make me a lot more comfortable getting to know people then being forced to give them a contact to me out of the game.
Also I would assume that it wouldn't be clunky, but thank you for your reply to the post.
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