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by Triphibian 375 days ago
Though clearly imperfect video games have, at times, managed to reflect some of these principles. There was a brief moment at the peak popularity of World of Warcraft when the game was highly moddable -- if you walked up to a stranger's monitor you would not recognize the interface they were using for the game because they'd customized it so much.

The gaming audience is probably the most demanding of any regarding customization, modding, accessibility and other similar principles -- when the market forces line up and they are flush enough to offer more malleability video games frequently do.