Originally posted by Terranah I'd love it if my character could continue in game after my death. But, I have no kids and since people in my family live into the 90's to 100+ as long as they don't drink or smoke (which I don't) I will probably outlive my wife.]But will I still be playing mmos 60 years from now is the question. Hopefully we have a good sandbox by then. (giggles)
It's funny you would say this. Back in the early days, in the first years of Ultima Online, a player had died on our Shard. (Lake Superior), well, the Origin staff went out of their way to do something nice for this player. They put up a memorial stone with a book that could be signed by players and then they created a dolphin with the players name. I have a screenshot of the memorial and used to have one of the dolphin, but I can't seem to find it. I don't think any MMO's would do something like this anymore, this was back before there were millions of players.I also seem to remember EQ doing something like this in the early years.
City of Heroes did something, too. Here is the wiki info on Coyote. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page and look at the notes, it tells about who he was.
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse. - FARGIN_WAR
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would you buy a virtual plot in your favorite mmo?
Imagine if the game devs set aside a park area as a cemetery...
[ Edit: "imagine" not "image" ]
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR