After reading about Richard "Lord British" Garriotts new RPG Shroud of the Avatar, it occured to me that he had the evolution of online gaming at hand. Selective-Multiplayer in which you can choose the way you want to play. Either offline and alone or online and solo or with just a few friends online or together with friends and strangers.

This is the way I wanted to play Onlinegames for a very long time. No people with dumb names hopping around in front of me ruining the atmosphere, no crammed dungeons or cities... I can decide whom I play with. And if I don't want to play with anyone, then I play solo. Even offline when I want to play with no internet connection at hand. This would be a huge bonus for Onlinegames, adding people as customers who don't want to or cannot play online.

As TESO wants to combine solo-player fun with onlinegaming by having quests that can be played solo why not have a similar selective-multiplayer-system? Why not give me the option to play solo if I want to? If I want to add a few friends or all of the players so be it. But it would be great if I could choose how I want to play the game. Therefore Selective-Multiplayer seems to be the next step in onlinegaming.

Megaserver should easily allow solo-playing, not thats confirmed, but you can play with your friends exclusively, if thats what you want.

The difference is that I don't want to see anyone else or just the few friends I want to play with. Or maybe at one time I want to see strangers.
The option should be there to just have those people in the world I want to play with or nobody except for me if I want to play solo.

Thats what I mean... they can use phasing for that. Its just if they allow it or no. I think they should do it. People like to play solo/friends-only.

Btw, if Shroud of the Avatar isnt scam nothing is. Lord British needs money for cheap hokers.