Where did it all begin, you ask? I started out as a third assistant to an assistant of the assistant file librarian on GEnie's Apple II RoundTable in 1986, played Stellar Warrior from Kesmai in beta test that same year and, with eighty of us blasting away at each other and my hands literally shaking

Where did it all begin, you ask? I started out as a third assistant to an assistant of the assistant file librarian on GEnie's Apple II RoundTable in 1986, played Stellar Warrior from Kesmai in beta test that same year and, with eighty of us blasting away at each other and my hands literally shaking

Where did it all begin, you ask? I started out as a third assistant to an assistant of the assistant file librarian on GEnie's Apple II RoundTable in 1986, played Stellar Warrior from Kesmai in beta test that same year and, with eighty of us blasting away at each other and my hands literally shaking

Where did it all begin, you ask? I started out as a third assistant to an assistant of the assistant file librarian on GEnie's Apple II RoundTable in 1986, played Stellar Warrior from Kesmai in beta test that same year and, with eighty of us blasting away at each other and my hands literally shaking

Where did it all begin, you ask? I started out as a third assistant to an assistant of the assistant file librarian on GEnie's Apple II RoundTable in 1986, played Stellar Warrior from Kesmai in beta test that same year and, with eighty of us blasting away at each other and my hands literally shaking

Where did it all begin, you ask? I started out as a third assistant to an assistant of the assistant file librarian on GEnie's Apple II RoundTable in 1986, played Stellar Warrior from Kesmai in beta test that same year and, with eighty of us blasting away at each other and my hands literally shaking

Where did it all begin, you ask? I started out as a third assistant to an assistant of the assistant file librarian on GEnie's Apple II RoundTable in 1986, played Stellar Warrior from Kesmai in beta test that same year and, with eighty of us blasting away at each other and my hands literally shaking

Where did it all begin, you ask? I started out as a third assistant to an assistant of the assistant file librarian on GEnie's Apple II RoundTable in 1986, played Stellar Warrior from Kesmai in beta test that same year and, with eighty of us blasting away at each other and my hands literally shaking

Where did it all begin, you ask? I started out as a third assistant to an assistant of the assistant file librarian on GEnie's Apple II RoundTable in 1986, played Stellar Warrior from Kesmai in beta test that same year and, with eighty of us blasting away at each other and my hands literally shaking

Instead, I am coming to believe that game designers and developers, on the whole (some of the august exceptions being right here on TN), are simply not able to see beyond their own way of thinking about MMOGs. I am not chalking it up simply to arrogance (although there is some of that too, especiall