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From: "F. Randall Farmer" <randy@communities.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 09:33:08 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
>Lord British:
"Interesting!... I believe the internet and especially the [anonymity] it
provides people, has been a social negative. In fact in the new game "X"
I intend to give people 1 and only 1 character at a time, thus they will
not want their 1 real identity to get a bad [rap]. No running off and
switching to another character. I feel the internet at large has this
same social misconduct issue. Technology will ultimately catch up
however, and I feel in the long run it will be a positive force."
>
F. Randall Farmer: (going out on a limb...)
This "goal" of one account/person is not possible. This is the same
sort of hubris that went into the Original UO design decision
for "realism" at the expense of playabilty: No Instant Messaging
between players. I remember the first days of UO: "Oh! You're
new! You can't find me here unless you download ICQ at
www.miribilis.com, here's my UIN and the UINs of guild members..."
MM Games need to _embrace_ the nature of the net and incorporate
its features/warts into their game designs from the beginning. To
do anything else is to invite avoidable abuse/failure of a system.
No amount of optimistic thinking will make some perceived
"problem" of the net go away:
There is no way to know who is sitting at the keyboard. Period.
Give it up, LB... Again!
:: Sigh ::
Randy
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