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+====== MMO Problem ======
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+{{tag>story_theory}}
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+Note that this article isn't fully written yet, but I figured I may as well release it anyhow.
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+This is a problem where a complicated story attempts to be told through a medium that simply can't accommodate that kind of story for one reason or another. For example: [[lb:Warcraft]] telling a story while forced to include the player characters as actual characters in the story (which they have been bad at) or the [[lb:wod]] dealing with inter-game crossovers and, again, keeping the player characters important...or just allowing some wiggle room for characters.
+This is a problem in those cases, since gameplay and player participation are kinda important.\\
+This is a problem because a player's immersion may be in jeopardy if their actions aren't integrated into the story properly. The Storyteller (in this case) will also have trouble coming up with a story, which may become a nightmare if you keep working with it.\\
+Crossovers in <cite>WoD</cite> were particularly bad.
+This is probably understood by Onyx Path, which is clear from their <cite>[[https://theonyxpath.com/curseborne-what-is-curseborne/|Curseborne]]</cite> <q :en>I can’t believe it's not [[lb:CoD]]!</q> game-line which doesn't have a meta-plot.\\
+They don't explain exactly why this is (can only skim right now), but it's pretty obvious to me why they did this.
+d6chan includes a page about this sort of thing called [[1d6>Your_Dudes|Your Dudes]], but I think it misses the fact that the <q :en>lack of an advancing story-line</q> is kinda...yeah, it fits into the problem basically. If it //is// about ‘your dudes’ then there wouldn't be a story/meta-plot at all, à la CoD/Curseborne. For that reason, Onyx Path may be slightly more intelligent than Games Workshop.