What gaming will become

Read this article – it contains foreshadowing of what gaming will become.

Wright’s newest game, dubbed “Spore,” will populate fictional planets with animals and cities created wholly by other game players. Allard said the Xbox 360 will increasingly encourage developers to let their players add on to worlds, and even sell their creations though a central Xbox store system.

Imagine being able to build a virtual world that earns you a comfortable living in the real world. I think in the next 20 years we’ll see a small segment of our society that lives in virtual world most of the time. These humans will only emerge into the real world out of necessity. I already see people like this who are completely obssessed with chat rooms or today’s MMG – massively multiplayer games.

If you’ve ever had a friend addicted to Everquest, you know what I’m talking about. It’s only going to get worse, or better depending how you look at things…