I've been playing Second Life http://www.secondlife.com/ for a while now and it succeeds by satisfying all of the requirements that you think are a problem. The world is, for the most part, built by the players and the main sources of interest are in building or socializing with each other. It is true that most players put a bit of hard cash into the game. However, since this is an over 18 game I don't see that is a problem - pushing four bucks into the game every so often is nothing to an adult. So, what's not to like with these goals? Second Life is growing by leaps and bounds, precisely because socializing and building are more interesting to many adults than the usual time-consuming level grind.
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>Even if she does, that is way past the point of it mattering. There just isn't enough things out there that need that kind of bandwidth.
We only need 640K of memory on a PC, more than that is just a waste!
I've been playing Second Life http://www.secondlife.com/ for a while now and it succeeds by satisfying all of the requirements that you think are a problem. The world is, for the most part, built by the players and the main sources of interest are in building or socializing with each other. It is true that most players put a bit of hard cash into the game. However, since this is an over 18 game I don't see that is a problem - pushing four bucks into the game every so often is nothing to an adult. So, what's not to like with these goals? Second Life is growing by leaps and bounds, precisely because socializing and building are more interesting to many adults than the usual time-consuming level grind.