Your complaint is a fair one, but it's a function of MMO economics, and the reason why games from SWG to Age of Conan are trying to include parts of the world where guilds can build cities that other players can try to conquer. The main story can't be different from player to player; your $10 or $15 a month doesn't pay them enough to customize the outcome of the story to the actions you take. So yeah, as much as we all hate it, we're not the people driving the story. We're people who were doing our part while a story was going on. We're less Eisenhower and Roosevelt than we are Willy and Joe, because that's what the economics and the tech make possible.
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Your complaint is a fair one, but it's a function of MMO economics, and the reason why games from SWG to Age of Conan are trying to include parts of the world where guilds can build cities that other players can try to conquer. The main story can't be different from player to player; your $10 or $15 a month doesn't pay them enough to customize the outcome of the story to the actions you take. So yeah, as much as we all hate it, we're not the people driving the story. We're people who were doing our part while a story was going on. We're less Eisenhower and Roosevelt than we are Willy and Joe, because that's what the economics and the tech make possible.