I found out yesterday that there are already auto-botters up and running to farm out the game for you. So, less than 2 weeks from launch date? Some countries don't even have the game yet officially.

+Bryan Buschmann - It needs to evolve quickly, to be sure. There will be a quick culling of the curious, especially if they don't have their social-interaction act together pretty quickly.

Though, I must say. I've never seen an adoption curve like this one.


Nice. Can we talk, please. My number +233545849320, please

One takeaway here is that the role of game designers and politicians is converging to some degree. Perhaps you can coordinate a delegation of game designers to educate members of Congress. (Edit: or any group of politicians or regulators. Perhaps the more obscure bureaucrats would be more receptive.)

Can you imagine foreign policy conducted through a virtual world? The president could have a giant map with many layers for each kind of analysis that might be useful - institutional networks, IR paradigms, social identities, etc. Intelligence agency members would get sections of the database they're responsible for updating, and tools could be built in to improve decision-making across the entire network and still maintain compartmentalized secrets. Officials could get special glasses with heads-up displays and information tags for the many officials they could meet.