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We put our "age" in our promotional material because:
- It's evidence the administration has experience. Ideally, this is some function of both players and duration), since running a 100-player MUD for a year is a lot more work than running a 5-player MUD for 5 years. We have 8 top-level staff, each of whom started playing in 1994-1998, and joined the staff in 1994-2000. That's a huge body of collective experience to draw on.
- A long-lived game's existence is more stable. Many MUDs rise up and crash/burn within a year. A long-lived game has dealt with paying the bills, managing conflicts, people needing time off, handling technical snafus, etc. enough times to work out all the kinks. If I'm going to take the time to learn a new game, I'm going to want to know it's going to be around a while.
Both of the above are at least as important as features in creating an enjoyable game. A wisely-run game with "good" ideas is likely more enjoyable overall than a game with "great" ideas that is frequently down, unfair (pervasive cheating, inconsistent rules, unbalanced, etc.), or neglected.
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