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Not a factor? You're definitely wrong there. It's just not the focus. I believe in making fun the focus. Roleplaying is one way of having fun. Roleplaying is neither superior nor inferior to any other type of gameplay in a MUD, and we try to accomodate multiple playing styles, to varying degrees of success.
Roleplaying is just a different way to have fun, as is PvP, Hack & Slash, politics, world-building, RTS, whatever. Nor are any of those mutually exclusive with roleplaying. I'm also more concerned with immersion than roleplaying. I, personally, find it anti-immersive to have to roleplay constantly, but some people will feel differently. Different strokes for different folks, you know?
To say that going from one form of gameplay to another is "selling out" makes no sense.
--matt
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