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1) I'm more than confident that if a free MUD operator came on here and acted like the_logos or Threshold, they'd be reviled personally. If a free MUD committed fraud on a Medievia-like scale (for example, stealing area content verbatim and claiming it as something they wrote), they'd be reviled as an institution.
2) Threshold runs a commercial MUD, and you don't hear flames about his MUD. (You'll see them about him, but read his recent posts to see why. Hostile is an understatement.) Flames end up directed against Medievia and IRE, because the owners of those MUDs take actions which **** people off.
3) Are you claiming IRE games aren't free? They claim they are free right in their two-line blurb, and you're licensing one, so you'd know the business model. Why are you drawing a line between free and commercial MUDs and putting IRE on the commercial side? This is part of the problem people have with IRE's business practices. Take the word "Free" out of IRE's blurbs- they'll be accurate, and people won't point out the deceptive advertising. Again, no one has a problem with Threshold's advertising to my knowledge.
3B) Similarly, Medievia could take a big step in the right direction by restoring the proper credits for the codebase they are proven to be based upon.
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