[MUD-Dev] Bay Area Press re: UO, the good the bad and the Ugly.

[Jon A. Lambert]

F. Randall Farmer wrote:
> 
> They expose the underbelly of our industry. :-) They aren't AP newswire YET,
> but one or two more big virus stories might make editors think that exposing
> any "negative" net-related story will sell more papers. :-P
>

I expected something worse.   Umm...nevermind. 
 
> Perhaps we should open a new thread about RL social conciousness in
> multiuser system design:
>  "Should our software periodically tell Timmy that he should go out and play
> for awhile?" :-)
> 

'Timmy' in this case is 24 years old.  Old enough to know better methinks.
If you design games for 12 year old Timmys and Janeys, I think you take
on much larger social responsibilities.

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