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Lasher · 02-10-2009, 06:07 PM

There's a more detailed post about how I came to pick up TMS here:

However, the short version, both for selfish reasons and because I love MUDs was to keep the site true to "MUDs" compared to some of the directions it could have taken.

As more games add graphical clients, and more games that are essentially MUDs but far more graphical appear, many of them submit their listings here.

This isn't "topmmosites.com" and there's plenty of high quality sites out there for MMOs. You can make an argument that WoW itself is a "MUD". You can also make an argument that anything where you interactive via point/click is not a "real" (traditional) MUD. So where's the line?

I'm asking more in terms of a wider discussion to see what people think, but secondary to that trying to figure out at what point is a MUD "not MUD enough" to be listed on TMS. Or, if we should just take everything, put it in the graphical games section and let it sort itself out. I'm sure that would be good for site traffic, but maybe not so good for what we know as "MUDs".

02-10-2009, 06:07 PM	#4
Lasher Administrator Join Date: May 2005 Name: Derek Location: Orlando Posts: 357	Re: What happened to Materiamagica??? There's a more detailed post about how I came to pick up TMS here: However, the short version, both for selfish reasons and because I love MUDs was to keep the site true to "MUDs" compared to some of the directions it could have taken. As more games add graphical clients, and more games that are essentially MUDs but far more graphical appear, many of them submit their listings here. This isn't "topmmosites.com" and there's plenty of high quality sites out there for MMOs. You can make an argument that WoW itself is a "MUD". You can also make an argument that anything where you interactive via point/click is not a "real" (traditional) MUD. So where's the line? I'm asking more in terms of a wider discussion to see what people think, but secondary to that trying to figure out at what point is a MUD "not MUD enough" to be listed on TMS. Or, if we should just take everything, put it in the graphical games section and let it sort itself out. I'm sure that would be good for site traffic, but maybe not so good for what we know as "MUDs".