re: Ready Player One

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One thing in the movie that was silly was how the players would enter the game environment in a lobby and then walk to an individual game. I realize it was a device to show the characters having conversations but no gamer is going to take the time to walk around, even if it is an avatar.

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One thing in the book that is not shown in the movie is travel costs money. Teleporting can be done through hubs, but it's very expensive and it's a massive galaxy of player and company built planets. You can also travel by ship for cheaper and you have to pay fuel costs, but it takes longer.

There isn't a hub/lobby world like shown in the movie.


They writer is good at developing ideas, but he is a pretty shite writer. A lot of writing reads like bad fan fiction, especially in the second book. He needs a much better editor to clean a lot of that shite up.