On Wed, Dec 01/99, Ken Bachman <kbachman@...> wrote:

> From: Ken Bachman <kbachman@...>
>
> Ryan Honeyman wrote:
> >
> > From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
> >
> > I sit and stare at my everquest monitor at work, thinking how
> > in the hell are 15,000 people playing this game at 11am in the
> > morning, souldnt they be asleep, at school, or at work??? We
> > don't have that many people who play from Europe.
> >
>
> I'd be interested in knowing the actual numbers, though. I was sitting
> in a group in Highkeep once, thinking to myself that their spelling and
> grammar was somewhat lacking, so I asked where they were from. Tokyo,
> Hong Kong, Bern, Paris and Geneva. Pretty cool. Then there was the
> group that insisted on "talking" French - they were all from Quebec.
> hehe
>

As well, you can list people who work shift work, shut ins, people with
disabilities that can't work at all. A friend of mine who works nights
had two people he played with who were both semi-paralysed in real life.
Everquest gave them a chance to play a character who had full freedom of
movement, at least vicariously, and I think that's pretty cool.

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