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Spoke · 01-07-2006, 10:31 PM

I guess this means that most MUDs that declare themselves "free" should have a warning on their first page:
[code] IF YOU ARE NOT A COLLEGE STUDENT NOT VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR STUDIES AND WITH LITTLE INTEREST IN SOCIAL LIFE OUTSIDE OF THE INTERNET YOU WILL BE IN AN UNEVEN FIELD[/quote]
because, certainly, I believe all these college age students are ruining my gaming experience by having more time than I do, I mean, it is really unfair that I, being a professional, with a 5 months old daughter have to compete with these guys with no responsibilities and whose hardest days in life are those Sunday morning hangovers.

Your Viagra MUDs advertise themselves as commercial games, and as such, they are obviously games on which you must be able to get something in exchange of money. You disregard a player opinion because it does not fit your argument, but hey, hello, it might be also true, he might be just speaking the truth.

Having more time than others is an advantage in the type of game you prefer, having money instead of dozens of hours a week to play is an advantage in the type of game other people prefer to play. What is amazing is that everytime this thread pops up we learn about a different player who has had a positive gaming experience and has not spent a penny in these games. Which means, in my opinion, that IRE has somehow found a balance between credit cost/ benefit and rl hour spent/benefit, which I think is a great deed indeed.

Some people dismissed the post by a single player who managed to do it without money, because he is the exception to the rule. I would imagine multimillionaires who spend 5k dollars in a month for an online-text game are also the exception and should be examples dismissed as well. Realistically we would be looking at people who spend a cash amount similar to other RPGs of the likes of WoW etc, so, those multimilliondollarplusafieldofoil-guys might just exist in your imagination.

As for every MUD being play-per-perks, I guess what the writter was trying to counter was KaViR's argument, as explained in my previous post.

01-07-2006, 10:31 PM	#212
Spoke Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 101	I guess this means that most MUDs that declare themselves "free" should have a warning on their first page: [code] IF YOU ARE NOT A COLLEGE STUDENT NOT VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR STUDIES AND WITH LITTLE INTEREST IN SOCIAL LIFE OUTSIDE OF THE INTERNET YOU WILL BE IN AN UNEVEN FIELD[/quote] because, certainly, I believe all these college age students are ruining my gaming experience by having more time than I do, I mean, it is really unfair that I, being a professional, with a 5 months old daughter have to compete with these guys with no responsibilities and whose hardest days in life are those Sunday morning hangovers. Your Viagra MUDs advertise themselves as commercial games, and as such, they are obviously games on which you must be able to get something in exchange of money. You disregard a player opinion because it does not fit your argument, but hey, hello, it might be also true, he might be just speaking the truth. Having more time than others is an advantage in the type of game you prefer, having money instead of dozens of hours a week to play is an advantage in the type of game other people prefer to play. What is amazing is that everytime this thread pops up we learn about a different player who has had a positive gaming experience and has not spent a penny in these games. Which means, in my opinion, that IRE has somehow found a balance between credit cost/ benefit and rl hour spent/benefit, which I think is a great deed indeed. Some people dismissed the post by a single player who managed to do it without money, because he is the exception to the rule. I would imagine multimillionaires who spend 5k dollars in a month for an online-text game are also the exception and should be examples dismissed as well. Realistically we would be looking at people who spend a cash amount similar to other RPGs of the likes of WoW etc, so, those multimilliondollarplusafieldofoil-guys might just exist in your imagination. As for every MUD being play-per-perks, I guess what the writter was trying to counter was KaViR's argument, as explained in my previous post.