[MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds

[Travis Casey]

Greg Munt <greg at uni-corn.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>These days, pure text adventures are dead. Does anyone see this happening 
>with muds too? Can the commercial successes cross over into the world of 
>free muds? Should they? 

Minor point:  pure text adventures are not *completely* dead.  There are
still people producing them, and other people playing them.  They *do*
have a very small audience, and all the people producing them are amateurs
doing it for fun -- but then, almost all the people creating muds are
amateurs doing it for fun.
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