9th February 2006, 4:26 PM
GR, playing without communication makes playing with other humans a very mechanical thing. Communication is limited to your direct actions. While you can still communicate, it isn't very clear, and if you are trying to communicate, you aren't competing very well.
I don't JUST like online play for the challenge, I like it because of the social elements. I'm pretty sure it's that way for most people.
Think of Animal Crossing. You can write letters to people, and that's certainly something. That game has communication, and to be honest I'd lock my town off from the outside world without that. Communication is an integral part of the online experience to me.
However, there is the issue of technical limitations to consider.
I don't JUST like online play for the challenge, I like it because of the social elements. I'm pretty sure it's that way for most people.
Think of Animal Crossing. You can write letters to people, and that's certainly something. That game has communication, and to be honest I'd lock my town off from the outside world without that. Communication is an integral part of the online experience to me.
However, there is the issue of technical limitations to consider.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)