Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5372266-20130730043926/@comment-82.43.128.159-20160331081542

I like the idea of it being a virtual image. What I like more is the possibility that it is self sustaining; that the system can create new content on its own. ALO shows this in this in Calibur, but what if this were combined with prodecural generation? The ability to plant a seed and have a whole world grow on its own; with enough data in the world seed I can't see why this would not be possible.

The problem with this mentality, is that the idea itself would be destroyed by the game industry, we haven't even got to a playing field where we can all play together regardless of platform, we still have platform exclusive titles forcing you into owning a particular system or not playing the game. There is no way that we would be able to have a whole bunch of worlds were characters could be moved between servers retaining their stats etc, unless someone selfless came out with millions of pounds/dollars to host the games. The industry would destroy it, capitalism would destroy it.