@Pavel There’s also a legal argument that the act would cover MUSHes as a form of social media, which means we could lose a lot of the EU folks in the hobby unless they band together to build their own servers that go through all those meters of red tape.
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RE: Age Verification & Games
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RE: Age Verification & Games
@MisterBoring It does have specific provisions relating to online games, so it’s a very big maybe.
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RE: Age Verification & Games
Does anybody think the KIDS Act being reviewed by the EU Parliament might affect our hobby?
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RE: Should You Play Your Own Game?
christ dude
But the answer to the question for me is Yes, with a Big Caveat, and that’s that you simply will never be able to reproduce the same experience as a regular PC. Even if you somehow stay anonymous, the other elements of the game – how the systems work, what the mysteries are, the relationships between other players and the jobs they submit up to you, these will all be floating in your head all the time and will inevitably color your experience.
There is also, of course, the gulf between what you want a game to be and what it actually is to play.
If you are open about it being a staff NPC, people will expect you to have knowledge and lore and stories. If you aren’t, they’ll be bitter when they find out.
But it’s crucial anyway, whichever route you go. It’s far more important the more immersive your game is, too. An RPI needs it far more desperately than a game done mostly in async on Ares, but it’s still important wherever.
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RE: LF various WoD/CofD people over the years
@Nerdvana I remember Dani! I can’t remember how much we played together but I had a Fae-Touched with a little rat companion. I remember she won a big summer competition by letting everyone else fight while she just raced to the finish line or something.
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RE: City of Glass: CoD on Ares
I’ve enjoyed games since then and currently enjoying the games I’m on now… but this place was fun and special.
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RE: Should You Play Your Own Game?
@somasatori Only games that will never make it as a MU. Like Unknown Armies and pretty much any PBTA game.
