[Re: UKNM: Virtual Communities, Avatars etc. . .]

[Paul Douglas]

Ian Tester wrote:


> Does anyone have any thoughts on virtual communities, where users can

enter

> the site, select an avatar and interact with others in a virtual world?

> There was a big feature on them in Revolution last year, but the concept

> doesn't really seem to have taken off/been incorporated in other sites,

> despite the much-vaunted "stickiness" of the concept. . .


This is one of those stories that resurges with predictable regularity -

remember The Palace software three/four years ago? Many of these systems

feel like (and sometimes are) IRC with a graphical interface bolted on

top.


[snip]


> Anyway - are there any good ones? (I quite like the dobedo version, and

> quake). My feeling is that they're not as effective as they could be

because


Yeah, Quake, Unreal, Half-Life. You can customise your avatar, build

maps (if you can be bothered) and shoot stuff.


> 1. you can't really customise the avatars

> 2. you can't really customise the environments

> 3. most people this side of the pond can't afford to be online long enough

> to have fun (tho that's changing!)

> 4. there isn't a great enough choice of environments available


And they're often so sloooooooow.


> Thoughts?


Will we have to hold two-way conversations with Miss Boo?


--

Paul Douglas, Editor, .net

30 Monmouth St, Bath, BA1 2BW

http://www.netmag.co.uk



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