Toon info?
They have this in Eve online. The biographies that most players come up with are pretty “predictable”. It makes the comments section of YouTube seem intelligent and witty.
Seems like an easy thing to implement. I’ve seen it in a couple of MMOs myself. It caters mostly to the role playing crowd, but I don’t see it having any negative effects, so I’d support its inclusion.
The problem is, that too many players want their characters to be ultra human. I’ve seen remnants of fallen meteorites with gods trapped inside them, 90000yr old princes (how old is the King? :o), and more last-known-survivors of forgotten civilisations than I can count.
Few people strive to be humble or average. I wouldn’t be against a biography but don’t see much point. If you have a story to tell, do it in roleplay!
The largest problem I see in it in a game like GW2 is keeping those things clean enough to keep the rating and let the children play the game. Even pet names have filters here, offensive guilds and character names are moderated, we have a verbal abuse report function; and all these things take a looot less time to moderate than walls of text in personal biographies would.
Ooooh, i like this one, i remember having it in some other MMOs and it did help quite a bit with immersion.
At the very least, it will make it easier for me to keep my chars’ bios straight …it’s kinda getting hard with 17 down and 23 to come.
Perhaps the only RP-oriented guild on the server
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