I heard about one very active online game in which two avatars highly customizable drawings or photos of people, animals, cartoon characters, or inanimate objects that online users employ as identification in communicating with their peers got married in the game. Later, I found out that the two people behind the avatars really did get married. And have children.
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Sorry to say it, but an awful lot of us are not happy, and we're not sure why. We're bored and lonely. Too often we're popping Prozac. We want to interact and be entertained constantly.
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Guys aren't apt to call up each other and say, 'Hi, I'm lonely ... let's talk.' They're much more inclined to join a baseball fantasy league or participate in a March Madness-type score-guessing group.
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What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.
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But we're fairly comfortable that our next generation hardware will blow everything those guys are doing out of the water
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Anything that comes along that gives people a new way to have social contact, they adopt it.
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