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Subject: Re: Uh? I don't know....what's it supposed to be?
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"Janne Raevaara" <jraevaar@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<9jgb6g$qeq$1@news.kolumbus.fi>...
> 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...)



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