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Yeah. We wouldn't want to please MUD Admins. That would be terrible. Why are they even spending time posting their opinions when they should be cranking out new content for players, right?

The term "players" refers to an extremely diverse group of people with a zillion different sets of priorities and opinions. You cannot "please" them by creating a set of dumbed down, vague checkboxes that poorly and inaccurately categorize MUDs.

Players will ultimately do their own research to find a game they like. That's what they have been doing for decades and it worked just fine.

TMS provides a platform for MUDs to promote themselves to players. It also provides a place where players can find information on tons of online games. Yes, the information is mostly provided in the form the MUD admins feel is most appropriate and positive for their game. So what. That is called marketing. The is GOOD for our hobby for admins to be able to present their games to potential players in the most positive light.

It is an exercise in futility to try and predict all the different ways players will interpret payment related information and narrow it down to a couple of check boxes. It is also patently unfair to force MUD admins into categories they feel do not accurately describe their mud.

But most importantly, it is absolutely repugnant that the real force behind this whole effort is a couple of MUD admins who are doing this for purely personal reasons. At least one of them has outright admitted it. There couldn't be a more WRONG reason to make a change than that.