
With the incoming release of Star Trek Online I’ve decided to write a little something about the Sci-Fi genre and it’s potential impact on the MMORPG community. Currently developers have more at stake in the fantasy genre with World of Warcraft, Everquest 2 and all those and rightfully so since that group of games seem to pull in the most money. I feel it’s because they are more accessible than games where you play a character unfamiliar to you, for example every character in most of these fantasy games are upright walking, have two arms and legs and a face with eyes and a mouth. The human mind seems do dislike things not like itself, so for developers to put you into something unfamiliar to you might immediately effect the amount of subscribers they might acquire. Now we pull away from all these common and well accepted images to something only powered by the human imagination, to places that we can have true belief might exist out there in the cosmos. Places we’ve only yet to explore…
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