[MUD-Dev] selling Godhoods

[Ananda Dawnsinger]

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>From: Matthew Mihaly <the_logos at achaea.com>
>To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
>Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] selling Godhoods
>Date: Mon, Apr 24, 2000, 11:22 PM
>

>On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Ananda Dawnsinger wrote:
>
>> My experience with the folks who are able and willing to pay $3000 for
>> "character advancement" is that most are quite likely to happily walk away
>> from their "investment" once the novelty wears off and the reality of
>> customer service sets in.  Perhaps they'll just have their character
>> transferred to a competing service, easing the pain of "losing their
>> investment."
>
>How can they have their character transferred to a competing service? It's
>not as if we have deals with any competing services to allow people to
>transfer characters (though that's a fairly interesting idea).

I can think of two games offhand that offered to transfer characters from
competing games for a fee.  The first was Legends of Future Past, for a
brief period at the start of its run.  I'm not sure if the second one is
still doing character transfers or not.

Basically, on Legends, the player provided a capture of their character's
stats, skills, and appearance, and the GMs translated the character into
Legends terms and recreated it.  It caused a lot of sour grapes and
resentment from those who didn't have characters to transfer, and the bad
feelings were still occasionally rising to the surface when I canceled my
account a couple of years later.

   -- Sharon



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