Tag: player agency
The Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game genre is not dead in 2025. It is something far worse: a patient on corporate life support, its vital signs—subscription numbers and quarterly earnings—masking …
We live in an age of instant outrage and shallow engagement. Complex ideas are reduced to slogans; history is flattened into moral fables. Nowhere is this intellectual decay more evident …
If you want to see the pure, unadulterated will of the MMO playerbase, ignore the glossy trailers for the next forgettable live-service sequel. Look to the shadows. Look to the …
In my mind, there is no doubt that in sandbox virtual words, the player is the ultimate game designer. What other genre of entertainment can you choose your face, your …
