When I read the first post, I thought, "Wow! That's a really cool idea!" But after reading the rest of this, and thinking about the game itself....on second glance, it probably wouldn't work out too well. Even though I thought it was cool at first glance, I would never play "The World", because I detest online games, paying money for them. And there's plenty of people who agree with me. Like someone else said, there really is too many online games out there right now. I think the whole game within a game thing works perfectly for the PS2, offline. Meh.