[MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 05:07:53 +0000 (GMT) 
the logos <the_logos at www.achaea.com> wrote:

> Erm, other people are the _whole point_ of multiplayer games. If
> you want to pretend they don't exist, why not just play a
> one-player game instead?

Therea re many reasons to play multi-player games, several of which
don't actually enclude an inter-personal interaction.  Other players
provide targets, skilled AI opponents, an active/unprdictable
environment filled with change and adaption, etc.  

There are a great many people who solo play in multi-player games,
but will only do that when other players are present in numbers.
They don't want to participate in the multi-player aspects, but they
do want the second order benefits of having other players active in
the environment.  

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
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