August News/Discussion

[--Pete]

Hi,

Blizzard also takes things to the next step, introducing "Phasing". In which the world is kind of 'instanced' to a single players experience. Blew that house up in a quest? For you, it's blown up. For the guy standing beside you who's not done the quest? It's perfectly fine. It's certainly an interesting step

Great idea but it has been tried before (in MUDs, at least). The problem is if a group of people have different 'worlds'. In one case I remember (in a Pern based MUD), a certain bridge had been burned down by some of the members of the group but not by the others. So about half the group crossed the river on a bridge that wasn't there to the other half. Confusion reigned. Going to be interesting to see how Blizzard handles this;)

--Pete