Interestingly you can visit a cemetery in Boston and the plaque will mention the iconic American historical figures buried there along with the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. So they didn't progress past 1950 but they managed to have

There is a button to hide the comments. Sometimes I peak in when Bob says something especially funny.

I turned off achievement notifications around 5 years ago and it has helped immensely. The lack of visual interruption is nice. As I am not reminded of them for weeks at a time, the achievement systems become more of a record of how I have played a game. Only if I like a game will I find myself going back and seeing…

This looks more like a home-grown grassroots zombie power industry. Not certain

Chat is the main reason I like twitch. The shared context between viewers and streamers and the subsequent communication, for me, is the entire point of the service. Its like the fun social chatting of an MMORPG using a shared character and constantly changing content. Added benefit is I don't have to be grinding all…

Ability for Horde and Alliance to communicate. I can't come back to that world without thinking of it as this horribly sad place where people are incapable of learning each other's language due to physics of their universe.

Punishment for leaving worries me. I have had the PC version crash at the beginning about 4 times in a 24 hour period. Do not punish me a game bug. I might accept punishment for leaving if there was a way to rejoin the match.

Tides and the fear of running aground?

I like the negative space survival creates.