@glesson and others
Alright. I'm not sure exactly constitutes as a "Living world" though. Sounds subjective to me. Immersion is subjective too. An economy is in a ton of open world RPG's.
I'd say making a story that fits an open world is still something a lot of games have trouble doing. I'd say that is a lofty goal in the genre Witcher is in. I don't want to sound like I'm saying "Nothing they do is hard work!".
What I'm saying is that I don't know why a lot of people act like The Witcher 3 has ideas that absolutely nobody has done and are impossible. Does it have ideas many people have tried and done bad? Yeah. Those ideas have also been tried and done well before though at the same time.
You want to know a game I think does have goals that may be out of reach? Star citizen. That's for another thread though
Oh hey, an official poll