Joi Ito
Joi Ito
Joichi "Joi" Itois a Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, Professor, and Director of the MIT Media Lab...
bonding bringing game people social talking
Most of the time, we're talking about things that are more social, or talking about the game, and the game is really more of a social bonding experience. There are a lot of people making connections and talking about working with each other or bringing in their friends from work.
difficulty dropping few goes hours near normal people running suck suddenly takes
Difficulty logging in (and) servers going down--it's become a normal part of our lives. It really does suck for us because we're running higher-level (quests) where it takes us a few hours to get to the (goal) and sometimes the server suddenly goes down right near the end before we finish. And they are unannounced (and) you just see people on the server--guild list--start dropping off.