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I can see the additional advertising as an advantage to commercial MUDs who can afford it.
The total of the non-commercial MUDs have more players than the total of the commercial MUDs though, don't they? Commercial MUDs either stay afloat or they don't so you'll likely see a tendency for them to commonly have a healthy number of players - it's a prequisite to their existance.
I think generally most players consider having a cost a very negative thing. You'll note they don't say that having a cost is innately an advantage - they say it in relation to that cost providing a higher quality. I'm not discussing under the assumption that non-commercial MUDs are lower quality though.
Secondly, I'm not condemning the effort, I just don't understand the basis and I'm interested in having it explained to me. I'm in no position to judge nor do I wish to. The question for me being, are non-commercial MUDs really placed at a disadvantage to commercial MUDs to warrant some sort of balancing that many people have condemned TMS for not providing?
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