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Why do sci-fi mmo's have mailboxes?
Diodem
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...like Anarchy Online and SWTOR?
It's like we have all this cool technology and amazing stuff, but we don't have email?
/scratching head
Is this an example of lack of thinking outside the box? Though at least AO was a pretty unique game at launch and still is, and SWTOR is not a bad game, Imo.
Edit: lol I wrote SWG meant SWTOR, sorry x)
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SWG didnt have mailboxes
I think whats more depressing is the crafting in TSW. Modern day mmo where you farm metal scraps off mobs and drag n drop into a box. Out pops an ak47 wtf fail.
Simply because they didn't think to call the mailbox a 3d printer instead?
Or more likely so that people immediately understood what it was and what it was for.
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It's also a bit bloody silly having mailboxes in high fantasy (yawn) mmo's where magic is so prevalent. Or having to return to quest givers, why not have a crystal ball or magic bauble of phone calls?
No because I can get a textmessage on my cellphone that I can carry around, while people thousands of years into the future or in a galaxy far far away have to travel to a mailbox, that means our time is more advanced than theirs...?
i can forgive AO because i think it was the first sci-fi mmorpg launched in it's day, but SWTOR? it's not that old?
It's largely for game design reasons, when it is there.
There is an argument one can make for intentionally leaving inconvenient things in an MMO. Things like banks, taverns, class trainers, mailboxes, all get people to cross paths, and that sometimes leads to socializing, which sometimes leads to friends and a feeling of a living world, which get people to stay and play longer even if they are bored of the gameplay.
There are BOOKS written about shit like this.
Also SWG didn't have mailboxes.
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Does it really matter when we are playing a game??
Why does Archeage have discos and automobiles? Does it really matter?
The quick question is, does it break your immersion? Fine , play something else. For me that crap in Archage does break my immersion and I won't play it.
If not then ignore it , it is just a game. Simple as that.
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Ignoring the impossible task of travelling faster than light, as well as the fact they can destroy planets; the rest of the technology in the far away galaxy is strangely reminiscent of WW2 dogfights and C17th swashbuckling. I think we are more advanced in many ways.
Say it with me: SWG did not have mailboxes.
your reply made me LOL irl xD
I'm still laughing lol
Most sci-fi MMOs don't have mailboxes.
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Lol that's even worse, they put in mailboxes in even more modern time xD
what?
You make me like charity
Sorry , my mistake I meant SWTOR, I thought SWTOR and wrote SWG x) my bad.
Has OP ever played SWG? I am just going to read SWTOR instead.
In SWG you had an email type system, if you needed to get items to people you either traded with them or used a vendor, so no 3d printer either.
Sorry you're right, I wrote the wrong abbreviation, I meant SWTOR.
the system in SWG made more sense then.
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Because mail/e-mail will always remain a perfectly viable form of communication for unattended messages between human beings
I mean did mobile phone replaced mail/e-mail? Lol
How much email do you receive in your mailbox? And what does it look like? Do you get a ziploc of 1s and 0s or a sheet of UUEncoded jibberish that you have to manually type into your computer?
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
Yea but mail and email are picked up and delivered in quite a different way.
The reason I asked was actually because I was logging on to some old characters in SWTOR, and they all had gotten a mail from the gamecompany about some resetting of some pvp ratings or points or whatever.
So all the characters had new mail icon going, but I had to travel on my sci-fi hovering vehicle to a mailbox to see what the message was. There was no items or money sent, just a simple message. It seemed kindof silly.
Bumping the answer.
Actually I think this one is the answer.
Having mailboxes for messages makes sense in a medieval setting, but using mailboxes as a message system in sci-fi makes no sense to me.
don't get me wrong, I'm not against mailboxes in any setting - you can use them for items, but it makes no sense for messages without attachements in sci-fi.