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You are right. That's an example of why the genre isn't taken seriously. It isn't taken seriously because people have idiotic holy wars insisting they own the "One True Definition" of terms like RPI, and they go around "rescinding titles" from games because something happens with their feature set or management.

That kind of crap doesn't happen in the rest of the industry. If someone says their game is an action, tactical shooter with RPG elements, you don't see veterans of other companies trashing them for not being a "real RPG." Mature members of the gaming industry let other people define their games how they want. Then they let the players decide if the definition is BS or not. They don't engage in open hostility for the whole world to see. That's the kind of crap that makes the MUD community look juvenile and silly.