As a casual gamer, I can confidently state that MMORPG's are not for casual players but only for hardcore gamers willing to spend large quantities of time and money. I have yet to encounter and MMORPG that doesn't feel like endless grinding within the first hour of play.
Actually, there is one. Vendetta Online does not require a lot of grinding. Being good is 75-90% skill, and only 10-25% gear. A veteran player can very easily kick ass of a newbie who has the best gear avaiable. In VO, it only takes 1-3 weeks of play to grind up to playable levels, so you can fight with the best. However Vendetta a big disadvantage comparing to WOW or other MMOs: it is boring, there isn't much happening there really.
Some people need to eat, feed their families, pay bills, etc.
I wonder how much will they eat, after the food becomes rationed by our brand new World Totalitarian Government(tm). If they can destroy the internet without resistance.... there is no saying what can they do next.
"It's pretty clear by now that this is a much bigger problem than any one person can likely tackle," Mozilla Developer, Johnny Stenback said.
Since bitcoins can be destroyed through abandonment, I predict that bitcoins will become impossible to continue for a long term basis.
Completely untrue. Since the protocol allows extreme divisability (even 100+ digits), whole network could run even or 1 BTC (1 unit of currency). So even if you destroy 99% bitcoins in existence, the market still will do fine.
Time to decode that insurance file.
No. He is not dead yet. Let's see what happens first and act later.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
