Letters to the Editor

Fast Forward 2020

For example, a player can decorate their SWG house with countless items as almost every item in the game exists as a 3D model. However, in order to get these items, players must build them, find them, buy them, or loot them. UO was similar. ATITD uses much more detailed mini-game systems, to the point where every item in the game starts as ingredients and requires long multi-step processes to turn into final goods.

The benefit with this approach is two fold:

1- Nowhere near every player has the time, desire, or talent to truly create content from the ground up. They do, however, all enjoy some amount of personalization and customization.

2- In persistent virtual worlds, developers have more control over the content that players are allowed to play with.

-Darniaq

To the editor: I dig the magazine, and I really like the design - the layout is beautiful. I like what you guys are doing a lot (so far).

Just a quick note - perhaps it's possible to put some easier next/previous navigation? Larger buttons, somewhere on the sides (esp. the previous button)? I like the minimalism thing, and I wouldn't want to destroy the design philosophy, but it would be quite annoying if print magazine could only be flipped by holding a tiny corner in one specific place, and otherwise they'd just be stuck.

Hah. Keep up the good work. You guys inspire me to write.

-Ilia

To the editor: I've caught some of your stuff on the web, and I really like it. The writing quality is the best that I've ever seen in anything related to gaming - it's sorta like the New Yorker of gaming.

Anyway, I just had a few questions/suggestions:

1. I find it really hard to actually read the articles. When I read a site like NYTIMES.com, I usually click 'single page format' and scroll down. I like having articles on a single page. I'm working off of a high resolution laptop, and usually when I read stuff on the web, I find myself increasing the font size. Unfortunately, when I increase the font size on your magazine, it overlaps the borders and that makes it hard to read

2. Will this ever be available in print? From the format of your website, I take it that its layout is magazine-like. I would suggest an exclusive web format, maybe like slate.com, for the website, because reading pdf files on the computer is tiresome due to scrolling issues.

-Vincent