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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5159692" data-attributes="member: 8158">This touches on a good point. If you're playing in a setting that is principally defined by personalities, you are actually taking something away if those personalities never show up.In the Star Wars Galaxies, there was initially no interaction between PC's and the major characters of Star Wars. That attempt to keep them at an arm's length turned out to be a mistake, because meeting those NPC's was actually a draw for players. It occurs to me that an MMO analogy is apt here. Many folks are discouraged from playing WoW by the knowledge that they will never be the 1st or the 100th person to do anything of significance. They will never be the big shots, the movers and shakers. They can only follow in the footstepts of far more hardcore players. Others play WoW casually and aren't bothered by that knowledge at all, because they don't care about the big picture. They just focus on what they're doing. Such is the nature of the divide in this dicsussion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felon, post: 5159692, member: 8158"] This touches on a good point. If you're playing in a setting that is principally defined by personalities, you are actually taking something away if those personalities never show up. In the Star Wars Galaxies, there was initially no interaction between PC's and the major characters of Star Wars. That attempt to keep them at an arm's length turned out to be a mistake, because meeting those NPC's was actually a draw for players. It occurs to me that an MMO analogy is apt here. Many folks are discouraged from playing WoW by the knowledge that they will never be the 1st or the 100th person to do anything of significance. They will never be the big shots, the movers and shakers. They can only follow in the footstepts of far more hardcore players. Others play WoW casually and aren't bothered by that knowledge at all, because they don't care about the big picture. They just focus on what they're doing. Such is the nature of the divide in this dicsussion. [/QUOTE]

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