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Old 08-07-2007, 01:19 AM   #12
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Re: Ganking MMOs (I'm in yur MMO, stealing yur playerz)

Very few hardcore online gamers are aware that text MUDs are a going concern. Most of them think of text MUDs as something from the mid-90s and before if they're aware of them at all.

And while the proportion of MMO players visiting general MMO sites is dwarfed by those visiting individual sites, even the population of players who do visit general MMO sites dwarfs everyone playing all text MUDs combined. There are a lot of potential players there. The trick is communicating to the ones that might be interested that there is indeed something to be interested in. It doesn't help that so many gamers like to play things that are already popular in the same way that many people like to see movies on the day of release. It's participation in shared culture and text MUDs as a whole are a relatively small niche that most people have never even heard of, rendering participation in them 'useless' from the perspective of someone who is looking to be into/good at whatever lots of other people are into/good at.

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