In Hellgate, this idea applies to the smaller tasks that exist in the game world. While the game's story focuses on key quests that the player has to go through, there are tons of smaller tasks players can go after should they choose to do so, and these are the elements of the game that change over time. "Any time you go and talk to an NPC, they may have things they're interested in," says Roper. "If you want to help them out you can, but they aren't a part of the main world storyline. For example, you can go up to one of the shopkeeper type NPCs where you're going to buy and sell items, and he may say, 'I've had this big order come in to modify all these weapons with batteries and my supply is really low on batteries, so for every battery mod you bring me, I'm paying five times the normal price.' It's not a quest, but it's something that is a need or an interest that's a little task you can go do."