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There are always some people who consider their game to be its own category - look back over the years and you'll see people claiming that their mud is no longer a mud, that it's now a 'MURPE' or a 'MRPG' or an 'MMO' or a 'MOO' or a 'MUSH'...
However I think most reasonably informed people recognise that MMORPGs are in fact graphical muds - indeed, even many of the MMORPG developers refer to their games as such.
I'm not aware of any muds which are fully graphical though - even the larger commercial ones such as EQ use text for communication. Equally, many of the muds which are typically considered 'text-based' also include ASCII graphics (sometimes more, if they have custom clients).
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