The 12 levels of Immersion

[Spyder73]

Originally Posted by Shjade [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

*checks 1, 2, and 7...and that's it*

I'd put raiding and batphones much deeper in the list than a simple # hours played, but that's just me.

In hindsight you are 100% correct - playing 50+ hours each week definitely happens before you start wanting to join raiding guilds and get on the batphone. Those items needs to be adjusted for sure.

13) EQCosplay - definitely needs to be added somewhere in here, thats next level dedication/naustiation.

But this is why i posted, so we can iron the wrinkles out. This is just a rough draft.

It would be more beneficial to take actually stories and add them to the immersion progression - for example, "Swish was banned from the Fennin Ro server for attaching nude pictures of himself to all his guild applications" - Or "Johnny Asshole got caught playing EQ at work and was fired from his 100k a year job, last week his house was repossessed and he moved back in with his mom". Real life experiences would really add some legitimacy.