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MMORPGs 100 Years From Now
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What do you guys think? Will a blockbuster of a game become a worldwide phenomenon that engulfs all mmos as we know them? Will we see virtual reality neural plugins ‘ala futurama? The current generation of video games is still quite new in historical terms, and when future generations have been born and raised into the standards of today’s market there will be a profound change in both the expected quality of the player base and developers mentality. What new technology and ideas would allow the inevitable evolution of gaming?
Already in my lifetime, as well as many others, we have seen development companies become multi-million dollar industries from a single game. We have seen gold farmers that, although despised, are actually nothing more then individuals that make a living by playing a game in a virtual world. Will a day come that the virtual game world becomes more significant then reality, in even social and financial aspects?
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*stands before Holodeck*
"Computer, simulate a realistic Star Wars The Old Republic setting. Standard parameters. Begin program."
"Program complete, enter when ready."
*enters holodeck*
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Caprica's V-World
Don't care, I'll be dead.
Silly proto-human, we will have evolved to no longer feel emotions and thus will not need to be entertained by such simple things as video games. There will be only the Computer Overlords! Did I say Overlords? I mean Protectors!
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In 1987 I flew the last Americas deep space probes. In a freak mishap my ship is blown out of its trajectory into an orbit that freezes my life support systems and returns me 2 earth......500 years later. Will be to bizzy fighting space pirates and sea otters and things to worry about playing mmo's. Sorry.
Governments will be run by guilds all controlled by this man:
Maybe not, Go,Go Organ Cloning Its been said that the Average life span of humans with advancing technology the way Its going will live 500+ years of age with in the next 100/200 years ,welcome to the age of Cyborgs ,that is if we don't kill ourselves with greed.
122 years old was the world oldest human that we know of, died in 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people
I think that Caprica's V-World is a far more realistic prospect than Star Trek's holodeck. I've always wondered why, given the limited size of the holodeck, its users didn't occasionally run into walls.
The world's ending in 2012, so dont pre-order or life-time membership anything.
Hopefully by then the zombie invasion will be in full swing, and when I wake up from my cryogenic sleep I will be far too busy killing zombies to play MMOs.
By that time, medical types will be able to root kit your senses, sight, touch, taste, smell and they will be able to feed you any data they please. They'll be able to make you see a rose, hear the starlings, and smell the rose.
Actually this has already happened, you are sitting in a box somewhere thinking that you are experiencing real life while all the while you are simply being feed sensory data by some aliens.
Tomorrow, these aliens will increase the gravitational constant to 11.2 mps making you feel heavier. They are doing this because they don't want to model bigger baseball stadiums.
Well shave my back and call me an elf! -- Oghren
In truth I think something will have surpassed gaming, like how games surpassed movies as the thing to do, and movies surpassed live theatre......thats just my thought......
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In that case, all MMO's will have housing and people like me will be in game yelling "get off my lawn!".
Why not?
If the world's ending in 2012, it's not like we need to save up for anything.
Yes but if you buy a lifetime sub before 2012, then you used alot of money on one spot, instead you could subscive to every mmo at once that is released by 2012 and get the feel of what you have been missing. Only to realize that your life has been a complete joke seeing as you wasted your life on mmos up to your final minutes, haha
MMOs played: Too many
Watch List: FFXIV, CoH:GR, GW2, SWTOR, TERA, Earthrise
I expect that MMOs will be background filler distraction - similar to the way radio has evolved from being a central medium 100 years ago into a pervasive medium used to fill time while travelling from place to place. I expect that MMOs will evolve into a network of simulations that give one the illusion of wealth, status and character - more of a fashion statement/subculture choice than a play experience.
But for all the grand cultural institutions I could imagine MMOs morphing into, I think that when the century is reached, I don't think that they will really be all that different than they are today - just one amongst many forms of entertainment, a little more polished, living in a complex society full of more forms of entertainment, but still there puttering away in basements beneath a rack of aging solar cells.
If you read the Enterprise-D technical manual, apparently when the environment is created a specialized set of force fields cover the ground and create a trendmill like motion so that the occupants, as long as they are close enough to eachother, will never hit the wall.
100 years from now???...we will be playing Fallout...FOR REAL...thank Gaia I will have left the building...
"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated". - Sylvester Stallone
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Yoda tells Elikal, "Space rats stealing my crackers have been! Living in the basement they are. Kill ten space rats you must. Rewarded you will be."
"Real Life" will actually become an MMO (through holodecks or advanced virtual reality technology). Then that stupid joke won't work anymore. Damn!
WoW will still be the most played MMO... jk
I think the ultimate goal is basically either a holodeck experience, where it's actually you but in a simulated world, or else a simulated world where you are able to experience what your avatar experiences.
But I question how popular games would be in a world with that technology. Why would I run around pretending to be an elf when I could realistically simulate living on a tropical paradise in a mansion with Megan Fox? Once technology reaches that level I suspect what people want by way of entertainment will change too.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
I just hope The Secret World gets released before the end of the world in december 2012 :'(