tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post3693436979215728269..comments2024-03-28T10:18:05.213+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: The Very Model Of A Metamodernist MetaverseBhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-72668102299830391162021-12-31T18:15:30.718+00:002021-12-31T18:15:30.718+00:00My current take on the whole "Metaverse"...My current take on the whole "Metaverse" thing is that we're just about at the level of technology that the media assumed we were at when Second Life and Habitat were new. Something like Korea World is pretty much what they were talking about around the turn of the millennium. <br /><br />Fortnite, on the other hand, considered as a meeting-place rather than a game, is already way ahead of that. I find it difficult to get excited about all these supposed Metaverses when we've already have a de facto superior version being globally and culturally dominant for several years. It's almost as if a whole load of other companies want a share of that action without having to go to the trouble of making a game to go with it. <br /><br />As for an actual "Metaverse", we're many years off of anything deserving the name. Maybe decades. For an absolute bottom line, it's going to need something approximating a quasi-autonomous AI and there's precious little sign of anything like that in any of these projects, fortunately.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-7212604590001669722021-12-31T13:00:17.690+00:002021-12-31T13:00:17.690+00:00I feel like we're not even at the Habitat stag...I feel like we're not even at the Habitat stage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game)) for a Metaverse. In other ways, it feels like people in 1900 trying to describe life in 2000. The wonder will be in the (very) few things they get right in their descriptions. Because you know at the starting conceptual stages almost everything they imagine will be wrong.<br /><br />Maybe I'm too old to grasp things, but so many things I see feel like just another 3rd person coop game. Those can be cool for learning and exploration, but 3rd person makes me think "game" not "expanded real life". I guess VR would help, but until I can enjoy VR games while sitting in my chair, that type of 1st person experience isn't going to be an option. (I live in an apartment so clearing room to stand up to play VR games really isn't a practical alternative.)Pallaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01052537793722183657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-17294868505310490222021-12-31T09:56:57.454+00:002021-12-31T09:56:57.454+00:00The idea of taking an avatar out of one game or se...The idea of taking an avatar out of one game or setting into another seems to me to have one huge problem that's not in any way technical - all of these games are direct competitors. It's very hard to see what the motivation would be for, say, Blizzard to add code to their games that would allow Square Enix to access them and vice versa. <br /><br />I can see it happening between games owned or published by the same company, though, providing the technical issues could be overcome. If Daybreak could let you move between the EverQuest games, DCUO and LotRO, for example, that would have obvious commercial attractions, especially since access to the games is already shared under the All Acess scheme. In that case, though, you're looking at games whose engines were built by different companies at different times so it wouldn't be a trivial undertaking. I bet it would be possible if the will was there, all the same.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-74741877710234786692021-12-30T18:11:12.847+00:002021-12-30T18:11:12.847+00:00I like the Paris Hilton definition of metaverse. T...I like the Paris Hilton definition of metaverse. The wearing of animal heads is such a FFXIV thing to do. I see it a lot in that game :)<br /><br />I'd really like the ability to take a stroll through many worlds on one avatar and experience holiday events. Or maybe hop from FFXIV's Gold Saucer to WoW's Darkmoon Faire to EQ2's Moonlight Enchantments. But something tells me that we're years away from that.NoizyGamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315716516032999133noreply@blogger.com