Could tie with a possible revelation that not every "NPC" in Eternum is a dead/excommunicated person (which is what the entire NPC system and the revelation at the end of 0.5 seem to imply). Could potentially be the end twist for this update or something, I dunno. Again, we'll see I suppose.
I'm still not sure how this will play out in the end. For one: There really can't be THAT many people getting excomunicated and turned into NPCs in the first place or people would start asking questions. Also there would be the danger of people meeting the NPC version of their dead friends and/or family in Eternum, raising even more questions.
How I look at the implications of the latest update, combined with much of the current speculation (mostly by Dorfnutter) is that NPCs aren't just excommunicated people, they're all "harvested souls" from either many sources of death or straight from the afterlife. It could also be that whatever realm/realms Eternum actually is, assuming it's not just a bunch of extremely advanced computer network space, is the afterlife, or various versions of spiritual planes of existence, and most of the NPCs are captured lifeforms of those realms, with excommunicated souls just filling out the existing roster of NPCs.I'm still not sure how this will play out in the end. For one: There really can't be THAT many people getting excomunicated and turned into NPCs in the first place or people would start asking questions. Also there would be the danger of people meeting the NPC version of their dead friends and/or family in Eternum, raising even more questions.
So, how many NPCs does Eternum even need? It seems a lot of functions are supposed to be filled by actual players, but in a normal MMO you still need tons of NPCs for Quests, Guards etc.
And if you can have "normal" NPCs...why even use dead people as NPCs considering all the massive risks that would be involved with that. So yeah...as far as I'm concerned, Caribdis still has a lot of "explaining" to do and "it is just a very rich and powerful company that can get away with everything won't be enough for me, because that (thankfully) is not completely how the world works.
I don't know...do we actually have solid evidence for that? I mean right now we aren't even sure how mystical or technical "Eternum" (the game in the game) really is. Yes, we know from OiaL that their are supernatural elements in the "Caridbis Universe" and through Luna at least some of them seem to "seep" into the closer "Eternum universe" as well, but even that isn't really much explored as of now. As I wrote before: Right now we only have Luna claiming she has that power and little else...like we haven't seen it in action or Luna predicting anything for example that then happens to one of the characters.
A Matrix-like VR that some people can somehow enter via dreams even before the VRMMO and the nerve implant themselves came to the market (as implied by the Isaac tapes in Andromeda and Orion's "Bleeding Case" (which has the hallmarks of a "waking dream")), yes.
There's some extrapolation that can be done from the party alone, mostly based on Caribdis' past works plus the nature of what we've seen from the MC through the first five chapters. First, we learn that all NPC's have the chips. Second, we (and presumably Axel) see Benjamin has been converted to an NPC (which is also an assumption). These two facts alone lead to a strong implication that all NPCs are probably some kinds of controlled, living entities; either spirits, souls, aliens, etc. And then there's the talk about the founder and "The Eternum Lady" ... both of whom seem to be different somehow.
Well to be precise, we can't even be sure that consciousness remains in Eternum when excommunicated. All we've seen (albeit even that is just a theory in-lore at this point) is someone getting the ban hammer and die in the real world. And someone who died in real life apparently roaming around in Eternum (who for all we know could be just a "save file" of the possibly best player in the world or just someone masquerading as Thanatos).
tbf i always download form recent not from rating, but yeah almost all of the 500 games i played are unfinished and a lot of them are just cash grabs releasing 1 update per year, like harem hotel, or summertime saga, those 2 are very good games but with all the money they are getting they could easily release another game of that size every year just an example but ths happens to i could say 80% all the games easily
So, out of around 500, MOST of them have been abandoned?
not abandoned only like 5% are abandoned but 75% are WIP and the other 20% have shit rushed endings
I meant what happened to him in Eternum so that his body died, but his conscience stayed in Eternum.
So you're here complaining about a well written, well paced VN with regular updates. SMDH.
if you think harem hotel is a very good game no wonder youre unhappy with this one, dont get me wrong, im not saying that opinion is worse than others, but if you like those kinde of porn game (where the porn and the sex are really prioritized over anything else) of course you're gonna be disapointed with this story heavy game, no one this far on the Eternum thread is here just for the porn anymore.
Ah: so his actual problem is that he doesn't know what the "N" stands for in "AVN" and is simply looking for strung together animated lewd loops.
I'm not arguing against dead people ending up NPCs, what I argue against is that we can be sure that excommunication results in being stuck in Eternum as NPC/ghost/whatever.
That's what I was saying in the first place. We only have one confirmed case of someone becoming an NPC (Benjamin after getting excommunicated), but we don't know what happened for example to Wyatt for him to continue to "exist" in Eternum even though his physical body is dead.
Might have missed it then, or forgot. Where does Benjamin appear after his death?
He is one of the servants during that meeting of the "Stone owners" you visit with Alex and Calypso. Someone had a Screenshot of him during that event, proving the "dead become NPCs theory".
