I think that post caught my eye because most players and devs just don’t think about that kind of issue, most MMOs don’t really give players enough agency to create their own history in a meaningful way.

But from my personal experience in MUSHes, it was an incredibly important issue for us. We needed to find ways for new players to come in and be able to quickly catch up with what had been going on, and for players to be able to record their own personal character histories and update them as time went on. We never found a good solution (but we did find lots of additional problems ). It’s basically the same problem as keeping new players up to date with what the current best builds are and which old content has been deprecated — if you let players act as historians and give them a wiki, what when they get bored or behind with updating? what if only the biased players write the history etc?

It is a fascinating issue. And like I say, I haven’t seen anyone really talk about it.

(And you misspelled my name! It’s “evizaer”. “Realize” backwards with a couple of consonants switched/changed. )