Re: Are MUDs still popular?
IMHO, not really. Old diehards like me still play them but it's pretty obvious the new generation's too stupid for text based games. It would involve <shudder> reading! Worse yet, some muds even make you think. Critically. Oh god the humanity.
Yep, I'm being partly sarcastic and partly bitter. The new generation's no dumber but the smart ones don't ever find MUD's because they're no longer running on University servers. Now all you get are the video gamers. The same class of morons who used to play Donkey Kong and Pac Man are the only ones who find MUDs. So the only muds that do well now are exceedingly dumbed down garbage like Merc's Circle, etc. Crap where you just run around repetitively killing mobs until you hit level 1 billion. And all done in glaring insane ansi colours of course.
BLEH!
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