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Ilkidarios · 07-04-2005, 01:37 AM

Nobody gets publicity from player-submitted reviews. Most people who are MUDders have one MUD that they play and no amount of persuasion could make them play a different MUD. I mean, a MUD MAY get some new players if it has a lot of good reviews, but there aren't very many new MUDders coming into the market. Chances are if you get a new player, he is from another MUD. Every once in a while, you get a player who has never played MUDs before, and he will most often stick with the first MUD he ever plays for his entire time of playing MUDs. The first MUD you play will always be familiar to you, a bit like home, and moving to another MUD is not very common. As for reviews, people who are already MUDders will not often look at reviews, because they know who write them. So reviews don't give you much publicity except with a narrow new-player demographic. Most MUDders will not take other's words for it and will try it out themselves first.
Bottom line: Make a MUD you enjoy, it doesn't matter what others think as long as you like it. If others decide to flame it, who cares? (of course, that's for non-profit MUDs, those upstanding fellows who make MUDs for the sheer sake of creation)

07-04-2005, 01:37 AM	#23
Ilkidarios Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Name: Lamont Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 436	Nobody gets publicity from player-submitted reviews. Most people who are MUDders have one MUD that they play and no amount of persuasion could make them play a different MUD. I mean, a MUD MAY get some new players if it has a lot of good reviews, but there aren't very many new MUDders coming into the market. Chances are if you get a new player, he is from another MUD. Every once in a while, you get a player who has never played MUDs before, and he will most often stick with the first MUD he ever plays for his entire time of playing MUDs. The first MUD you play will always be familiar to you, a bit like home, and moving to another MUD is not very common. As for reviews, people who are already MUDders will not often look at reviews, because they know who write them. So reviews don't give you much publicity except with a narrow new-player demographic. Most MUDders will not take other's words for it and will try it out themselves first. Bottom line: Make a MUD you enjoy, it doesn't matter what others think as long as you like it. If others decide to flame it, who cares? (of course, that's for non-profit MUDs, those upstanding fellows who make MUDs for the sheer sake of creation)