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Right, this was within the annotated Chronicles trilogy, and it is an excellent point, though it works for what Weis and Hickman were going for. The entire point of their books was to tell the story, their linear story, that no one could change, because it is a book.
What MUDs do, better than any other game, is create an immersive roleplaying realm, that you can do (or may try to) do anything in. I'm not going to nessecarily argue for nor against it, but are we trying to make a real world, or are we not? I suppose it depends on what game you play.
I'm going to have to disagree. Just because someone can access something in public does not mean that it should not be allowed within the game. You can access pornography, hate sites, and shock pages from a public library, most of the time. What on earth are you doing playing games in a library anyway? I think it's fantastically amusing to say that it is the responsibility of a game maker to censor the above mentioned actions because someone might play it in public. I might also read a Playboy in public, I might play Grand Theft Auto in a mall, I could use a chatroom at a netcafe for underhanded purposes, I may do any number of things. But if we're going to start limiting what can be done because it may be done in view of others, then we're going to bloody well remove half of the internet, and most of today's movies and television.
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