When Roy Trubshaw and I worked on MUD1, we saw it as a means of giving people freedom. For players, freedom to do and to be; for us, freedom to make our imaginations real (well, OK, virtual). Most of the early UK virtual worlds that followed had that same sense of idealism. After our "high energy" presentation, the questions were even stranger. Someone asked why humanities research got left out, and we had to say that we couldn't find it to be directly relevant on our top 10 list of bulleted points. Ian made the point, and I agreed, that doing the research for this panel made us think differently about academic research. While I'm not going to say that what we've done personally has no value, it was a definite challenge to try and make it *directly relevant* in a BULLETED POINT for developers.

When Roy Trubshaw and I worked on MUD1, we saw it as a means of giving people freedom. For players, freedom to do and to be; for us, freedom to make our imaginations real (well, OK, virtual). Most of the early UK virtual worlds that followed had that same sense of idealism. After our "high energy" presentation, the questions were even stranger. Someone asked why humanities research got left out, and we had to say that we couldn't find it to be directly relevant on our top 10 list of bulleted points. Ian made the point, and I agreed, that doing the research for this panel made us think differently about academic research. While I'm not going to say that what we've done personally has no value, it was a definite challenge to try and make it *directly relevant* in a BULLETED POINT for developers.

The difficult question is this: do virtual worlds (and virtual communities) now have more controls, gates, filters, rules, because a single generation’s unique and unreproducible historical experience has become an inflexible structural precedent that defines all future online sociality, that is the ur-culture that gets reproduced as ritual and expectation, or because the first generation of players and talkers online discovered some universal and general truths about how modern human beings will behave socially when they’re given the technological capacities to do so?

A hand-crafted mission to a hand-crafted dungeon is a LOT more interesting to the player than a random mission to a random dungeon. For the simple reason that the second mission and dungeon will resemble the first one too much if it is just computer generated. WoW is actually making the game less realistic. I can imagine the conversations now: You know, when I heard about phasing, this is what I was thinking. Now, I have no doubt whatsoever phasing is great, makes the game more fun, and all that, and the people who still play WoW love. But a lot of people want an MMO where if you change something in the world, it changeas for everyone, not just you (I hate to bring the S word into this but this is actually a pretty-much agreed on concept for sandbox games). I think it's good though.

A lot has been unveiled recently for Square Enix's MMORPG Final Fantasy 11 (PC, Xbox 360) including the new classes, the Dancer and the Scholar. However, this year's Fan Festival 2007 had more in store for Final Fantasy fans aside from the Final Fantasy 11: Wings of the Goddess expansion.

You can buy unquestionable FF11 Gil from us, a professional, loyal and reliable FF11 Gil exchange corporation and power leveling work group.Final Fantasy 11 fans who attended Fan Festival 2007 were treated to a lot of new info and a glimpse at Final Fantasy 11: Wings of the Goddess. That being said though, those of you who weren't able to be at the event will be glad to know that the folks at PlayOnline have compiled a list of quick tidbits related to the future of FF11 Gil game.

Square Enix' latest expansion for their cross-platform MMORPG is now available in Europe and other PAL territories, said the company's recent announcement. FFXI Gil game: Wings of the Goddess (Microsoft Xbox 360, Windows PC) is Square Enix' fourth expansion to FFXI Gil game and has been up on North American servers for some time now.

If you've been playing Square Enix's FFXI Gil game on your PC or Xbox 360 regularly, then you may have already picked up their latest content update. If you haven't picked it up though, you may want to read on, as we've got the story on what this new content update entails.

Hold on to your Chocobos! Gamers who still haven't updated their respective gaming platforms for PlayOnline's FFXI Gil game might be interested at taking a look at the file sizes for the newest update released today.

It seems that PlayOnline is really serious when it comes to letting loose the banhammer on players caught using cheats and other unacceptable devices on the MMORPG version of Square Enix's FFXI Gil game (also on Xbox 360). Here are the exact figures released by the company covering the last crackdown report to November 14...