<![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> hehe... I'm playing PMOG right now and a mission led to this article...

FunkyJ

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> Hey I know I'm late to this, I just wanted to say that there are three co-founders at GameLayers. Duncan Gough is the third, he's the CTO and he built PMOG. :)

merci

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> I've always thought that technorati and blog stats were a kind of mporpg.

I know when I hit 62,000 page views in one day on my blog I was expected a gratz.

and like most mporpg's the end game isn't that fun.

engtech

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> like i don't waste enough time on the internet already. now i have to be on every waking moment of the day, racking up points by checking my gmail? wouldn't it be super-easy to 'cheat' in any number of ways?

i'm with the luddites on this one.. this is the kind of crap people will point to when they complain about how we're becoming unhealthy zombies. hell, it could replace video game consoles as a scapegoat for fat kids.

geekgrrl

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> Add me to the 'this is too ridiculously Meta' demographic.

@Seth L:

What, simulated internet vandalism? I find it passe.
-Kle.

Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> Have you heard of Progress Quest?

It's been around for about 5 years now.

LisRiba

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> Dang, I totally suggested that like 3 years ago at the first BarCamp. 8-P

Liz Henry

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> @Seth L: I don't understand their game either.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> Gawker just called us nerds and stole our lunch money:

[gawker.com]

The game they talk about does sound more fun though.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> @Ghede: There are certainly aspects of the internet that can be looked upon as being game-like. Myspace is a good example because people truly do compete to out-friend others. But that doens't make the "internet" a game.

Maybe I don't quite understand what is meant by "The internet is already a vast multiplayer game". Because I think it's nonsense.

I'm not going to pretend to truly know what a "game" is (I'm no philosopher), so I'll just paraphrase Potter Stewart and say that while I think a game is probably difficult to define, I know one when I see one. The internet is not a game.

Also, thank you io9 for helping me learn that the person I've always known as "that supreme court guy who said that thing about porn" is named Potter Stewart.

joemono

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> @Seth L:

I meant that towards the editors.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> @Ghede:

Jalopnik has gone downhill since they started comment of the day.

The quality of discussion is substandard.

Please don't do that here?

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> @joemono: Tell that to Myspace users, Racking up thousands friends like they mean something. Tell that to people who like to get into the "Week in Comments" at Kotaku... *cough*

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> The internet is not a game.

joemono

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> Reminds me of WebWars, from Eve Online. In a purely superficial sense of course. Both include firefox plug-ins, both involve transforming the internet into a game, both are in beta.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> I've read this over a couple times and I still don't get what it really does?

@JoeyTheHobo:

Please do!

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> I don't understand. I mean, I think I kind of understand...but I definitely don't understand.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> @Annalee Newitz: yeah thats one of the downsides of a capitalist community everything turns into a way to make money. I never wasted my time on facebook and begrudgingly set up a myspace page because i had a girlfriend that made me do it. Hopefully this game works out and even if they do sneak ads in make them discreet. Dont offer me points for buying crap. I'll visit pages and post comments just dont dupe me into buying stuff.

EDread83

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> @Seth L: I'll let you know. It took me about 4 minutes to track down someone with an invite.

JoeyTheHobo

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> @EDread83: Yeah, you mean like Facebook did?

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> I like the idea behined it, and his description of internet spraw is spot-on.

But it practice I'll bet it's as dull and lifeless as second life.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game]]> sounds like fun until it turns into a big corporation driven game where "Being A Consumer Is Fun"

EDread83

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