At first I was going to archive his letter here, because I loved it, because it ties with my own way to be pathetic. So it’s about dreams, about a sincere passion and a drive toward a direction. But then it somewhat wrecks. He starts to praise World of Warcraft, and okay, but it falls confirming my doubts.

He goes back, he dispels all the illusions he started to evocate. How can you pretend that it’s the passion to drive you when then you say that what is pushing SOE forward is Blizzard’s hot breath? So it’s really the money, it’s the market as an exploit. Maximum profit for the minimum effort. You move because you are forced to by a competition, you don’t move because you have a passion behind.

“Clueless”. It’s the opposite of having a goal. “Make loads of money” isn’t the consequence of a plan you pursue with the passion. It’s the cause. We do this for the load of money. We do this to reach that goal. So the money isn’t before the goal, a tool so that you can reach the goal. No. The money is the “end all”. Once you win the market you can sleep. When there’s someone planning to steal a slice of they pie you go “hey, it’s time to work”.

And then the passion is just that type of smoke that you start to believe even when you know it doesn’t exist.

Btw, Smedley ideas suck. No, really.

What if you could have families in MMO’s? Virtual Children… What if your characters could have children and pass on the family name…

What if players could build fantastic dungeons that become part of the worlds we create with tools we give them? How would that work exactly?

Can MMORPGs have skill based combat?

Yes, why not permdeath? Fetuspults maybe. Smedley is ready for Terra Nova.

This while the old EverQuest looks 10 times cooler than its sequel.