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

[PLAGNAL XAVIER]

----- Original Message -----
From: "F. Randall Farmer" <randy at communities.com>

>
> http://www.metroactive.com/metro/cover/onlinegames1-0022.html
>
> I just read these.
>
> If you haven't seen them, you should.
>
> 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
>
> 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?" :-)

The problem was the same with paper RPGs, remember the polemic when some
AD&D players killed themselves because their caracters was under a curse.
When you are a RPGs player and you heard that, you feal really bad.
Not because you think that could happened to you, but just because there is
some stupid people who will think that all RPG players are completly insane.
RPGs are still alive, hopefully, and I hope there will not be laws agains
Online Games.
Our role is to create the best game ever made, the role of the customers is
to enjoy it.
Playing a game and enjoying it is not a crime, for me it is like tasting
goose liver paste, in too big quantity you will get sick.
And on the goose liver paste there is no sticker saying "Eating more than
200g of this product could cause an attack of indigestion ".


Xavier







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