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Old 09-08-2010, 01:21 AM   #102
shadowfyr
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Re: The "Health," of Muds

No, WoW will vanish because the company can't make money off it any more. Look at EQ I. There are servers that, up to the point, run a near complete emulation of the original *and* a number of them that have created entirely new content, not to mention some that have even added in their own graphics. and The original isn't even dead yet, but there are servers running that both emulate and extend much of its content. If WoW dies it will be because no one has emulated the server, and like others, some of them with far better server designs, the box in the shelf will become nothing more than a collectible, for obscure people that like software they can't even *ever* run any more.

But, if someone does... What most MMOs lack is a simple way to set them up, for your own use. EQEmulator pretty much removes that barrier. Without that barrier, there is no justification for claiming that MMOs are "just fads", unlike MUDs, and won't still be around quite a ways into the future.
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