I can understand what you mean, Tristan, but I'd say that it's pretty obvious that if you're playing in a smaller community, you get to know everyone after some time.
If you'd have played Native for the same amount of time you played cRPG, you'd prob know most people in their NA community too, eh?
Tho, and I agree on that point, cRPG is(for me sadly was) way more fun than Native.