[game_preservation] Archivist character in Diablo

[Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue]

I suspect you have a lot of researchers/historians/other info  
professionals who play the MMO's to hack and slash through the  
frustrations caused by their profession :P

(Not from personal experience, of course. Lalala.)

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:27:56 -0400, Andrew Armstrong  
<andrew at aarmstrong.org> wrote:


> One thing, this does raise a question (in game design) why, at least in  

> a more persistant setting, there are not scholarly-available classes -  

> ones that do, literally, work on recording history or doing research.  

> There's a few stabs at this (some prestiege classes in D&D for instance)  

> but not really much of an attempt to get historian classes into games.

>

> I say we petition every MMO for this :) Who cares about beating up  

> monsters if we can sit around researching, interviewing and recording! :P

>

> Andrew