There is the design for a game out there that would truly be the end of all other games. It would be perfectly balanced, with content enough for lovers of PvP and PvE to enjoy the game equally. There would be no questions of developer ploys to trick us out of more money, of unequal loot distribution, or of whether it rewarded time or skill more evenly. There would be no option but to play it... which is why we should be happy that it currently only exists as the centerpiece of an SMBC Theater short.
Whether you're a veteran since Ultima Online or still new to MMOs as a whole, you're likely to recognize the behavior on display in this short -- and even if you can guess the joke, the execution is still spot-on. So if you could use a chuckle or two (possibly at your own expense), take a gander past the cut. After all, we can take heart that such an insidious game doesn't actually exist... or does it?
Playing WoW for more than 24 hours straight without breaks is believed to distort the perception of time in test subjects. Another possibility is that, under rare and difficult to recreate conditions, WoW is capable of creating a temporal rift in which unsuspecting players are sucked into the future.
First it was novels, then moving pictures, then radio, then television, now it's video games. It's always the newest form of media that will surely be the downfall of society.
Anyone remember the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation when Riker went to Riza 4 and brought back a video game, which then spread to the rest of the crew and turned everyone (but Data) into zombies?
saw it a few days ago and had a good chuckle, but that said, i think most of us agree that MMO's are there for, a big part, the social interaction. whether it's chatting, grouping, trolling, pvp/pve or forumwhoring... we are there with others and doing something enjoyable.
then again, my father still thinks it's a waste of time and we should watch movies on tv *eye roll*
Seems to me that MMO would be vulnerable to botters but, at least, we would not have to worry about gold farmers, kill-stealers, ninja-looters, corpse-campers or spammers. Not a bad trade-off, actually.
