Interoperability; was: [sldev] Call for requirements: ISO MPEG-V ...

Mike Monkowski monkowsk at watson.ibm.com
Tue Jun 3 10:48:34 PDT 2008


Kelly Linden wrote:
> In short these [WoW / EQ / AoC] are not "virtual worlds", they are MMO stories or MMO 
> games but not virtual worlds.  The people who don't want to be an Elf 
> etc don't want to play WoW.  Effort on interoperability should be 
> focused on the products (potential and existing) that would actually 
> want it.

I'm not a supply-sider so that fact that Sony or Blizzard don't 
"actually want it" doesn't seem like a useful predictor of the future.

Would you consider Little Big Planet to be a MMO game or a virtual 
world?  The pigeonholes are changing.

Mike


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