I realize I'm ignorant of the subject matter but I did not fail to pick up on how much easier an online service would make it to play with people over the internet lol. You gotta give your conversation partners a little benefit of the doubt lol.

Different strokes for different people. If my situation and needs were different it might be a great choice to go virtual. I don't mean to sound like a hipster or like I'm judging you guys. But I do think so long as you consume digital services you have less power over everything that you get done in that way, and separate yourself from the real world a bit more. I know it's ironic to talk about separating from the real world-it's an escapist hobby, but I don't really give a damn about the campaigns in particular, personally, for me it's about having them nibbas around a table together, rolling dice and having a time with pizza and drinks.

I have an interest in music production, and although methods exist to collaborate on projects over the internet- which would bypass scheduling issues and efficientize our rate of production- I totally ignore all of it because I demand to get together to jam instead.

Some people have a friend who moves away and they use this stuff to keep in contact. That is great, making the best of what you've got to keep a connection. Maybe if that happened to me with a specific person I will eat my words and convert to virtual, but I'm afraid the entire tradition would slowly liquidate among the rest of us since nobody would actually need to be there to participate, and needing to be there acts as a sort of leverage item for making it happen, if that makes any sense.