Dear Joe Sanchez,
I enjoyed reading your excerpt “A Social History of Virtual
World.” I think that you provided great information and lots of information
that I personally did not know and that is why I largely enjoyed reading it. Seeing
the real transition of gaming and social worlds, was really interesting because
I always knew that the history was much deeper than I personally knew.
My thing that I wish that you went in depth with was the
effect that online gaming has had on these worlds. Obviously you touched on it
a little bit when taking about the World of Warcraft but I think that games
like Madden and Call of Duty has had the same effect but differently and in a
much bigger way. Yes, these games are not at all like the World of Warcraft but
I’m almost certain that they also have their place in history and in some way
have transcended both the gaming and social worlds.
Nowadays these games are expected to not only have great
singular game play but also have great online play because people like
interacting with people from faraway places and not having to just play with
people that are in the physically around. People like talking and communicating
with people and even building relationships over these types of games. I know
that I personally have friends on these games that I have never met and
probably will never see much like people do on Second Life and the World of
Warcraft.
It just would have been nice to hear you go into depth about
this end of gaming and social worlds simply because they are intertwined even
more with these more popular games. Otherwise, great read.
Best,
Amir
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