[Aeran]

I have to disagree on that. I think diversity in MUDs is a good thing. It gives us a lot of different games to try and hopefully also enjoy . If you see each MUD as a book what you essentially are asking is for authors to stop write new books. Perhaps there are other worlds to explore, other stories and new kind of experiences to be had. If people give up before they even try to write the book those worlds never have a chance to emerge.

My opinion on people losing faith on MUDs is that there is lack of decent reviews on the games. Player reviews are usually written as advertisements and give you little information about the game. TMS is nice for when you want to see what MUDs get a lot of traffic, but it does not advertise smaller MUDs that yet have interesting and unique content.

Edit: I think tries to show what MUDs could be interesting to take a closer look at.