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Welcome to the world of Everquest and of online gaming.
In an (36) video game, the players are in control. They can (37) the game on or off. In an online game, players can (38) or leave. But the game goes on without them.
In games like Everquest, players (39) characters and try to develop skills. They use a virtual currency to start (40) and get rich. They make friends and enemies. They fight wars, start revolutions and sometimes even get (41) to other characters.
Everquest has 60,000 players, according to its (42) .They (43) that 12,000 of these spend most of their time in the Everquest world. The real world is just the place they eat and sleep.
The next stage, say game designers, (44) . Some scientists believe that (45) .This seems to be the future of video games--hundreds of different versions of the present, where anything is possible.
Perhaps (46) .