MMORPG News - Open Borders for MMOs @ Yahoo! News
 

Yahoo! News has an article on recent efforts by IBM and Linden Labs to allow people to use a single avatar in multiple virtual worlds.
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This might be neat for casual games like Sims Online or some of the graphical chat rooms out there.

This ain't gonna happen though between major competitors like WoW and Everquest. Character development is just too different in those games.

That is really great for IBM and Linden Labs that they have such brilliant ideas. I welcome every measure that keeps all those second life psychos from invading real MMOs. So if that makes them stay with Linden Labs and a future second life 2, third life, first death, or whatever title the next piece of total bs will have, I think it's great.