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

[Koster]

On Thursday, December 25, 1997 7:56 AM, Mike 
Sellers[SMTP:mike at online-alchemy.com] wrote:
> it is entirely possible that there are now more people playing
> graphical MUDs than text ones; and if there aren't now, there will 
be in a
> year.  Unbelievable?  Far fewer people play text muds than you 
probably
> think... and I'll go out on a sturdy limb and predict that there 
will be at
> least 250,000 people playing graphical ones within a year.

Oh my, that's very conservative. :) There will be that many within six 
months, I expect. I can't discuss exact figures for UO but from 
publicly available information regarding M59, DSO, Realm, and UO, it's 
possible to arrive at a figure that is already around 125,000 at 
least.

-Raph