This is why I think the broader landscape of multiplayer games and other game-like things is the actual metaverse and we’ve had it since early MUDs that predate

This is why I think the broader landscape of multiplayer games and other game-like things is the actual metaverse and we’ve had it since early MUDs that predate Snow Crash. Everything else tends to be a platform and whilst platforms can be part of the metaverse they’ll (hopefully) never be the metaverse.