Adam Sessler hits this thread's nail on the head in this youtube video. Edit: And honestly the less you know about something the more your imagination is able to run wild. We learn this and this thing about the game and then the span of your imagination shrinks to fit the things about the game you just learned. It may be a recipe for letdown, but it's good for the entire industry if forums around the net are filled with ideas about what could be and how to make things better and more engaging and meaningful rather than... well... everything else. I still dream of the ability to actually fly through space and around a real spherical planet. Whether that makes it into this game or not, it opens up all kinds of possibilities that I can't even fathom. Those ideas find their way around the web and into the minds of the people who have the ability to make such an experience a reality. THAT is why forums are great. We need to become adventurous again, but we're stuck in a box built by the games of yesteryear that we've known and loved.