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Re: online apps (was Re: Cable Connection - Now what?)

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From: Kent Dahl
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:39

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redsniper7000 wrote:
> 
> Eep² wrote in message <3D5D08CD...@tnlc.com>...
> >Then there's Active Worlds (http://activeworlds.com/ ) and other VR
> (virtual reality) programs which are trying to become multi-user level
> editors (and Active Worlds is the closest but still has a LONG way to go)
> that allow games (of which AW has basic board games) and other interaction
> (building, chatting, "sight-seeing", etc). That's the future of online
> gaming...
> 
> <reply>
> 
> Not it's not. A game has to be FUN.

Or as Marcy so well put it in http://www.pvponline.com/ somewhere...
  "For it to be a game, someone has to win."
(or something like that, too lazy to dig out the strip in question)

Fun is just too subjective a criteria.

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