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Threshold · 04-18-2013, 11:00 PM

Did you miss my earlier post in this thread?

That's not playing a zero sum game at all nor is it simply going after "MUD vets". We are aggressively doing things to bring to people that aren't currently part of the text mud community. It is working extremely well, and it is working without alienating our existing players by warping Threshold into something completely different.

There are other muds doing similar things. I seem to recall a recent bit of news where was pushing their skinned Blowtorch client for Android really hard on the Google Play store and on Google Plus. That's a really smart move.

If you want to make a graphical game, then make a graphical game! That's what we're doing at Frogdice. In May we will publish our 3rd graphical game (Dungeon of Elements) in the last 12 months.

Alienating your existing, happy playerbase by taking the game they have supported and warping it into something completely different is a recipe for disaster and failure.

Ask Star Wars Galaxies players how worked out.

04-18-2013, 11:00 PM	#40
Threshold Legend Join Date: Apr 2002 Home MUD: Threshold RPG Posts: 1,260	Re: Do MUDs need to be "brought into the 21st century" Did you miss my earlier post in this thread? That's not playing a zero sum game at all nor is it simply going after "MUD vets". We are aggressively doing things to bring to people that aren't currently part of the text mud community. It is working extremely well, and it is working without alienating our existing players by warping Threshold into something completely different. There are other muds doing similar things. I seem to recall a recent bit of news where was pushing their skinned Blowtorch client for Android really hard on the Google Play store and on Google Plus. That's a really smart move. If you want to make a graphical game, then make a graphical game! That's what we're doing at Frogdice. In May we will publish our 3rd graphical game (Dungeon of Elements) in the last 12 months. Alienating your existing, happy playerbase by taking the game they have supported and warping it into something completely different is a recipe for disaster and failure. Ask Star Wars Galaxies players how worked out.