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Because thats what most differentiates a game (and pretty much every other form of media)

If you take out story telling and the things that give characters value, you are only really playing a game marginally better than what you played the gen before (or in some cases, many generations ago).

People want to be thrown into a new setting, even if they dont get to do anything a lot different to things they have done in other games.