It's unbelievable because (1) the patent is in no way tied to a physical system as required by US Patent law, (2) is merely a generic and obvious collection of related activities and basic processes, and (3) is invalid based on at least a decade of prior art that predates the patent.

Do you understand that the patent, as written, would lay claim to the basic functionality of every MMO ever released? That is quite literally lays claim to the character selection screens that have been around since Ultima Online (as the patent limits itself to networked game, earlier SP games are not relevant), which came out in 1997?

This isn't an old patent--it was filed November 2010.