Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5372266-20130730043926/@comment-25156228-20160904195852

82.43.128.159 wrote: 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. I agree with you honestly, being capable of converting your characters between all games is something that I don't see happening, converting characters in that way may be can become true between games that its companies have a partnership or are run by the same company... also, I highly doubt that all studios would work using the same game engine.