Re: Determining the Origin and Meaning of RPI
Really? A search of usenet says otherwise:
Here's a from 1998 which is... a decade ago.
I didn't say there weren't RPE or such before MMORPGs. I said that it became an increasingly attractive aspect of mudding that many, many muds started trying to emphasize as a way of attracting players. I mean, do you not remember the tons and tons and tons of arguments on TMC and TMS about what it means to have RP-encourage or RP-enforced? It was a result of muds that previously weren't concerned with RP trying to cash in on players from the RP niche.
Fair enough.
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