This guy says what we are all thinking
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007Third Life formalised over at Infocult:
Third Life stretches across the virtual world-MMOG continuum, because it is open to crossings between worlds. You might take your avatar from a superhero game into a Second Life-like social environment, then cross over into a fantasy game. Perhaps some translation of appearance is available (t-shirt becomes mail shirt, coffee mug becomes hollowed-out skull for holding wine), but consistency could be valuable, fun, and useful for persistence i.d. You can migrate from a science fiction MMOG into a non-game social space, where your avatar’s features, customized for one world, become personality traits in the next. There should be a great deal of productive friction between worlds.