When a story accumulates over a billion readers, it ceases to be mere entertainment and becomes a shared cultural landscape. Nexon has now given that landscape a gate: an MMORPG called Overgeared, developed by Graygames and rooted in the beloved web novel franchise of the same name, officially announced on July 28. The game asks whether the devotion readers bring to a story can be redirected into the patient, iterative labor of acquiring and perfecting equipment — whether a narrative world can survive its translation into systems.