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Occam's Razor: It's not ordinary.
I've never played it, but it doesn't matter if most of its features are duplicated somewhere else. The same is true of World of Warcraft and Runescape, but that hasn't stopped millions of people from enjoying them. There is no game -exactly- like Medievia, and it is Medievia, not the individual systems, that people are playing.
Medievia, or indeed any MUD, isn't a bunch of unrelated systems put together that may be individual dismissed. The whole is often greater than the sum of the parts.
Let's use sitcoms as an example: How many nearly-identical-in-concept sitcoms do you think have aired and been cancelled in the last, say, 25 years? I haven't counted, but it's quite a large number. Most of those had all the basic elements of a Cheers, a Seinfeld, or a Friends. What made those super-hits and the others forgotten nothings had nothing to do with the individual 'systems'. Cheers didn't invent a new setting and call it a 'bar'. Seinfeld didn't invent wacky neighbors. What those shows did do was execute those concepts very well.
--matt
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