Time to get real: massively complex online worlds transcend gaming

For all the legions of programmers coding the movement of individual blades of grass, and all the advances in processing power and VR, the simulated worlds of online gaming still behave nothing like the real one. It's not just the proliferation of enchanted objects and implausible weaponry. It's something more fundamental. "Say I drop an object on the floor. I leave the room and come back. In 99 percent off MMOs [massively multiplayer online games], it's just vanished without explanation,"...
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