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scandum · 05-06-2010, 08:20 AM

I think MUD has become a synonym for a text based multi-user game over the years.

Claiming MUD is an all encompassing term is kind of out there, though it's understandable that Bartle does so for reasons of personal gain as it would make him the granddaddy of modern MMORPGs. A graphical MUD imo is a text game which has additional graphics support.

Expanding this site to include graphical games wouldn't do it much good. Small MMOs would easily blow the current leading MUDs out of the top 10 without even trying, not to mention they'd send more traffic to the site than they get out of it, which is probably why Simutronics doesn't use TMS or TMC, or perhaps it's in their best interest if their playerbase doesn't find out about free alternatives.

05-06-2010, 08:20 AM	#8
scandum Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 315	Re: Welcome back to me! I think MUD has become a synonym for a text based multi-user game over the years. Claiming MUD is an all encompassing term is kind of out there, though it's understandable that Bartle does so for reasons of personal gain as it would make him the granddaddy of modern MMORPGs. A graphical MUD imo is a text game which has additional graphics support. Expanding this site to include graphical games wouldn't do it much good. Small MMOs would easily blow the current leading MUDs out of the top 10 without even trying, not to mention they'd send more traffic to the site than they get out of it, which is probably why Simutronics doesn't use TMS or TMC, or perhaps it's in their best interest if their playerbase doesn't find out about free alternatives.