With the advent of virtual reality came the Runners. Unlike the speedrunners of the past, this current generation focused on grinding a character''''s levels, skills, and abilities to a high degree in order to sell the character to the highest bidder - the faster the better. The Runners were scorned as opportunistic and greedy by most players. The consensus believed the right way to play was to take the time to fully immerse yourself in the game, to befriend the NPCs, and actually care about the fictional world they played in. Ha! What a joke.