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How Online Game Quest Logs Model a Reading Queue
A quest log is one of the oldest ideas in online games, and one of the most quietly useful outside them.
For most of last year, my Friday link roundup took longer than anything else I wrote that week. I keep around four hundred feeds, I star whatever looks worth sharing, and by Friday afternoon I would open my starred list to find 60 or 70...
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A quest log is one of the oldest ideas in online games, and one of the most quietly useful outside them.
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Most multiplayer titles I have logged serious hours in share a feature almost nobody praises out loud: the in-game mailbox.
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Last spring I counted my Discord servers. Thirty-one, almost all for games I play or used to play, and the notification tray...
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In January I opened my read-later app and saw 1,143 unread items. Some had been saved in 2021.
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Live games almost never sit still. The in-game store refreshes, a weekend bundle appears, and the cosmetic you wanted rotates...
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Most people treat a loud social feed as a choice between enduring it or quitting the platform.
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