[MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP

[Koster]

On Wednesday, January 07, 1998 11:19 AM, Ola Fosheim=20
Gr=F8stad[SMTP:olag at ifi.uio.no] wrote:

> Besides wasn't/isn't M59 a 3D hack'n'slash a'la DIKU?  Kill=20
monsters
> or social interaction?  Most people I met were not really=20
roleplaying,
> they didn't claim to be either.

Most were not roleplaying in the sense of role-acting. They are not=20
roleplaying on UO either. They are also not roleplaying on most gaming=20
text muds, period (gaming as opposed to collaborative storytelling).=20
Not even on the highly detailed, complex, socially interesting,=20
roleplay-oriented ones.

-Raph