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Social Features UI

The interfaces supporting player-to-player interaction, friends lists, party systems, chat, clans/guilds, and invites. Social friction is a leading cause of multiplayer abandonment.

In games, this means

Inviting a friend to a session should take 2 interactions maximum. Systems requiring friend codes, platform-level navigation, or separate apps create social friction that prevents cooperative play, especially between platform ecosystems.

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