...doesn't mean that I think that "communal gameplay where more players band up to achive a real communal goal can offer a more involving type of fun that till now we've never seen in this genre and even outside of it." I'd also say you haven't been watching if you think that it hasn't been seen (or that I haven't been pushing it). Surely things like player cities, be they in SWG or in Shadowbane, are this?
Just because I think advancement is driven by egoistic genes...
...doesn't mean that I think that "communal gameplay where more players band up to achive a real communal goal can offer a more involving type of fun that till now we've never seen in this genre and even outside of it." I'd also say you haven't been watching if you think that it hasn't been seen (or that I haven't been pushing it). Surely things like player cities, be they in SWG or in Shadowbane, are this?