[lonnarin]

I know this is a longshot, but since the communications side of things are IRC-based, then would there be room to run peer-to-peer tansfers of minor things in game between players? One in particular I was thinking of would be if somebody wanted to use voicechat to talk or have their custom portrait auto-update to and from the server and other players. A bard who sings a song and then you have the option to click on him and listen, that sort of thing.

Of course this might just be a pipe-dream until bandwidth costs and standards go through another drop in pricing, and could open the service up to malicious hacking, so I understand if we don't go that route for at another decade. But, if GM Clients had access to being able to stream say, custom music or a dramatic monologue into a quest much like the way people stream MP3s in chatrooms, it could set a precident that no other MMORPG has even come close to tackling. As badnwidth becomes quicker and more cost-efficient, I could see future MMORPGS down the line utilizing this approach.