To be honest, it's this sort of stuff that makes us not want to be a part of TMS at all. Point being, it's already tough enough to get players, when I see some of the big players monopolise the top of the list through such horrendous means as messing with player prompts (which we wouldn't DREAM of doing), well, maybe it's just not worth our time trying to compete with intrusions like that. I just don't think that's right as a development for mudding, as a user, it's tacky, and with this sort of "endgame" I have to wonder if maybe there are better places to concentrate our "PR effort resource time" on.
Just as an aside, I personally very much welcome that Med spends some of its ad spend outside of the usual mudding circles. It's healthy for mudding to bring non-mudders in. I wish all the commercial boys would do so, rather than taking players from the hobbyist games. As for whether Med is naughty, illegal, immoral, whatever - that's a different debate that I won't even get into.
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