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From: "Janne Raevaara" <jraevaar@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Uh? I don't know....what's it supposed to be?
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Lennert Stock <ls@gate99.nl> wrote in message
news:8fimlt09abkdiurn1kssn02rerd7magt2t@4ax.com...
> Well that sounds like bullocks, if not, not very objective.
> There are over 1500 muds out there, many with over 100 players
> and 20+ coders on at all time, some over 10 years old. So for
> these people the format must be doing something right. Actually,
> MUD is the first proof of what will happen when vr's that my
> grandma can use, hit the masses. If it works for you, tv-addiction
> is paled compared to it.
<SNIP>

I have to admit that MUDs are an important part of the history of computer
gaming... But that's just it. I think that there is no use in coding 1600:th
MUD for a diminishing group of players. They became popular as as the first
form of "real online gaming" and where defined by technical limitations of
that time. Now that most of those limitations are history, why code an other
MUD? (Of course, people create 4-channel tracker music, too...)