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29904: Re: [MUD-Dev] believable NPCs (was Natural Language Generation)

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From: Amanda Walker <amanda@alfar.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 17:49:55 -0400
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On May 27, 2004, at 4:54 PM, Freeman, Jeff wrote:

> People typically don't visit virtual worlds, though, they live in
> them.

"Typically?"  I don't think it's even close, even for powergamers
who don't have to work for a living.

> 'Course, always in motion the future is, and all that.  But you
> don't get to buy a house and setup a shop in Disney Land.

OK, let's tweak the analogy a bit, then: consider a Renaissance
Faire (probably a better analogy than the SCA, since they are
for-profit).  No professional actors, no high salaries, lots of
attention payed to character and context, and much more engaging,
broad-spectrum fun than any current virtual world could dream of
producing.

> I think we'll see robots replace the human-actors at Disney World
> before we see human-actors replacing the bots in MMO's.

Hmm.  Seems to me that Disney's going *away* from robots and towards
increased use of humans, actually...

Amanda Walker
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