Synthravels

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I meant to blog about Synthravels (which claims to be “The 1st online Virtual Travel Agency”) a few days ago and forgot. So here’s the pointer to it for anyone who hadn’t seen it already.

There were tour groups running in UO in 1997, and I am sure the phenomenon is older than that. But this is the first time I’ve seen an RL business for it.

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  3. That’s an interesting concept. It’ll come in handy, in part anyways, in deciding if a game is worth buying and trying out. Then again, it’s kind of a spoiler, but what isn’t.

  4. I can’t see this working in EVE….5000 star systems, about 4000 of which are full of instadeath “gatecamps” 🙂

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