[This message has been edited by Joey (edited May 29, 2001).]
Mind you I do like the idea of using avatars.
It sounds a lot like VRML?
Lets think about this: They're going to program an online game for the PS2. After their programmers writing all this code, when porting it to the PC version, they're then going to hand the job over to a few website designers using a pre-packaged online chat tool? Hmmmm. Somehow, I suspect they might just, oooh, write an online game for the PC? I mean, they *are* a games company.
If rumour has this - well, that's why it's called RUMOUR. Rumour also has it that Square are using pink alien penguins to write the code for FFX, and it's being done totally in Javascript.
If rumour on the 'net suggests something unlikely, then 9 times out of 10 (or 99 times out of 100) it ain't going to happen. My money is on this being one of those times.