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Dawnquiver · 08-07-2009, 05:22 PM

This is a pretty interesting subject! I know that I have played both simutronics and IRE muds extensively. It's easy to be critical of the IRE crowd since they do "leech" their players primarily from other muds, but those guys love muds and mudding, don't doubt it :P

As for simutronic's profit margins, don't doubt that either. It's $10 a month for default and something like $40 a month for premium, and their two primary muds each have 250-400 people online at a given time. I have no idea what that makes their total player base to be, but it's not that hard to imagine their income (before expenses anyway) being over a million per year.

There's people here who have researched this all (and I have not) but some of this is just common sense. I think the important thing to keep in mind is that while you can make money with a mud, don't quit your day job right away.

08-07-2009, 05:22 PM	#19
Dawnquiver New Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 4	Re: Barriers to commercial MUDs This is a pretty interesting subject! I know that I have played both simutronics and IRE muds extensively. It's easy to be critical of the IRE crowd since they do "leech" their players primarily from other muds, but those guys love muds and mudding, don't doubt it :P As for simutronic's profit margins, don't doubt that either. It's $10 a month for default and something like $40 a month for premium, and their two primary muds each have 250-400 people online at a given time. I have no idea what that makes their total player base to be, but it's not that hard to imagine their income (before expenses anyway) being over a million per year. There's people here who have researched this all (and I have not) but some of this is just common sense. I think the important thing to keep in mind is that while you can make money with a mud, don't quit your day job right away.