Grindless Play: Replicant of a Manifesto
Posted on : 12-12-2007 | By : Nathaniel | In : Manifestos of a Young Scholar
Tags: ludosmack, vintage
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We call ourselves players– as opposed to “gamers,” a herd of junkies doing rather well squandering their time.
We see no connection between truly exhilarating flow and the cunning and calculation of the profiteers.
We consider the psychological Euro-American MMO-reward drama weighed down with needy apparitions and childhood greed– an absurdity.
To the synthetic frontier with its showy geography and to the mythification of Tolkien lore the players say thanks for the rapid territory transitions and the quests. Good … but disorderly, not based on precise study of locality and immersion. A cut above the psychological raid drama, but still lacking in foundation. A cliché. A copy of a replicant.
