Gaming's Permanently-Connected Future?

[bayonetbrant]

https://theringer.com/video-games-future-ea-andrew-wilson-c0204a661507#.ffkfutq1g

From the minute I get up in the morning, everything I do has an impact on my gaming life, both discrete and indiscrete. The amount of eggs I have in my internet-enabled fridge might mean my Sims are better off in my game. That length of distance I drive in my Tesla on the way to work might mean that I get more juice in Need for Speed. If I go to soccer practice in the afternoon, by virtue of internet-enabled soccer boots, that might give me juice or new cards in my FIFA product. This world where games and life start to blend I think really comes into play in the not-too-distant future, and almost certainly by 2021.

[bbmike]

^ Sigh, where's my Luddite hat...

[JasonPratt]

They can have my partially connected internet when they pry it from my cold, dead hands AND I DO NOT EVEN CARE WHETHER THAT ANALOGY MAKES SENSE!!

[Dammit Carl!]

That shit's crazy, man.  No way in hell do I want anything life related tied to something gaming related; I play to relax and the last thing I want is the two to mix even the slightest little bit.

[Martok]

Yeah, that does not sound appealing at all. 

[Father Ted]

Obviously rubbish - who talks about "soccer"?

[bayonetbrant]

Obviously rubbish - who talks about "soccer"?

sophisticated, worldly sports fans par excellence whose intellectual peers are found among the most brilliant in society...  so not many folks here ;) O0

[undercovergeek]

Obviously rubbish - who talks about "soccer"?

sophisticated, worldly sports fans par excellence whose intellectual peers are found among the most brilliant in society...  so not many folks here ;) O0

ahem

[Staggerwing]

But you englishy types call it futbol or some such thing, don't you?

[Dammit Carl!]

 Thought it was "Foosball," myself.  Momma never did like me playing no foosball.

[FlickJax]

Yeah we must be crazy calling a game where we use our feet to kick a ball football......we English are just mad.

[MikeGER]

From the minute I get up in the morning, everything I do has an impact on my gaming life, both discrete and indiscrete.

nice try Andrew

ah, i see and the longer the criminals record in reallife the better get his stats in GTA 6, right?
...and will a black person get better stats on cop killing ingame? Do i as a German will get a better stat when playing an SS soldier in a WW2 game instead of the Russians? where does it end? 

its just a scam scheme to data-mine customer to smithereens.

give me all your privat live data (i sell for big bucks) and as a reward you get a tiny tiny better stat on some virtual item in a EA game. No way!

Tesla ? Hahaha, i still drove a 27y old 4wheeler Landcruiser running on fuel-oil! and with manual shift!, who put more political incorrect nitrogen oxides in the air on a wintersday startup then a whole fleet of hipster Teslas in there life time (until the driving assist totaled it and killed the Tesla owner in a fatal accident while the blackbox CPU was to busy uploading data to EA instead of whighting image analysis versus sensor datas) ....and i love it >:D   
 

[Phantom]

Tesla ? Hahaha, i still drove a 27y old 4wheeler Landcruiser running on fuel-oil! and with manual shift!, who put more political incorrect nitrogen oxides in the air on a wintersday startup then a whole fleet of hipster Teslas in there life time

... or maybe not, when you take into account the amount of crap generated making a huge inefficient battery, which will need replacing again in 3 - 5 years anyway, not to mention the crap turned out by the power station doing your re-charge every hour for the 40 miles you can drive..... electric cars are just another crap idea promulgated by the same limited view "futurist" that wrote this article.

...aah, glad I got that off my chest.

[Father Ted]

electric cars are just another crap idea promulgated by the same limited view "futurist" that wrote this article.

So what is "limited view"?  I genuinely would like to know, because the quote in the OP seems to be embracing quite a large idea.

[bayonetbrant]

There's a lot more to the article than just that quote above.  Go read it and see what you think.