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IRE states that it is completely free to play, and that we(the players) should only pay them if we think they deserve it. It does not say there, on the website, that we should pay them if we want any chance of being competitive with people who dish out real-life money for in-game perks.
It's misleading advertising, and it's different than trying to put a positive spin on a small playerbase; the difference is that your misleading advertising can cost players money, whereas other misleading advertising will only cost them a bit of time/disappointment if the MUD isn't as good as they'd hoped it would be.
Simultronics has created a solid set of MUDs that prey on the most addicted of the MUDing population. No game is worth paying 80 dollars a month for, or paying real life money just to be able to participate in realm-wide quests, or to have in-game weddings. NO game is worth that, and just because some sad players are conned into paying that does not change the fact that it is highway robbery, at best. It is one step up from drug-dealing to suburban rich kids who get hooked on the juice and have the money to sustain their habit.
Your defense of Simultronics, as well as your other weak arguments set forth recently, only go to show that you only care about making money - and that you judge success in an online MUDing community based on howmuch profit you are turning, or howmany players are sucked in.
Good for you - feel great about yourself. Most of us would venture to say that your ethics are questionable, and that your heart is in the wrong place compared to most of us in this online community of text-based Multi-User-Dungeons - games that are born from British Legends/MUD, as compared to games that are born from Ultima: Online/etc. They are seperate genres, and your callous, self-serving attitude does not mesh well with many people here, as I'm sure you can tell.
Again, your defense of Simultronics is classic. They are internet thieves - and it is not that I say this from lack of experience. I played their games when they were free, they were among the first MUDs I played, 13 years ago. They are internet con-artists now. IRE might not be as bad as them, but based on what Matt says, I doubt it is from lack of trying. :-p
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