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And here you can see the truth of that response - there have been several suggestions for creating a commercial mud list.
This list, however, is something completely different. For example:
Skotos: A company producing a range of commercial online games, including some very high-quality muds (both text-based and graphical). The muds are certainly part of their income, but are a minority of the available games, and therefore they can't be classified as "professional" under the definition given here.
World of Warcraft: One of the largest commercial muds, but it only represents a portion of Blizzard's income, and therefore wouldn't be classified as "professional" under the definition given here.
Rekmud: A fairly stock GodWars (and thus Diku) derivative which sold +100 hit/dam items before being shut down for licence violations. The income, small as it was, was still more than the owner would make as a student - and thus this mud would have been classified as "professional" under the definition given here.
Bad Trip: A ROM derivative, and member of the DikuMUD Hall of Shame, the owner sold numerous perks to pay off his debts as well as to fund his drug habit. I believe he was also unemployeed, and as such this mud would be classified as "professional" under the definition given here.
But it would if you were to get fired from your real job, or if you were to nominate a student as the token "mud owner". In fact, any mud could make the list simply by hiring a student or unemployed person as their mud's "top imm" and then paying them $1 for the job.
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