[MUD-Dev] About.com article on Skotos

[SavantKnowsAll at cs.com]

In a message dated 1/9/01 11:53:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
ChristopherA at skotos.net writes:

> This article has apparently raised up some heated discussions on the
>  LumTheMad site. Savant wrote a very scathing rant against the article at
>  http://www.lumthemad.net/news/1640.php , in which he says (among other
>  things):

I wouldn't exactly call it scathing. ;)

I'm a big MUD fan, believe it or not.  Have been since I got my first 
internet connection through AOL DOS.  I was being frank - and as many of you 
know, we at LtM aren't afraid of being brutally honest.

The article, and Skotos itself (from what I've read thus far), is not really 
proposing anything new.  It's all been done before, and will continue to be 
done.  If people want to get together for a small group of free form RP 
online, there's plenty of (free) small MUDs out there.  The main business 
draw would be the large scale MUDs that are promised, and as I said, the 
market can only bare one powerhouse in that area, and Simutronics is it.

Pay-to-play MUDs have been tried: Achaea, Inferno, Legends, Avelon... and 
while they may be profitable to pay a single salary or so, they aren't 
exactly the basket to put all your eggs in.  Also, there are /still/ games 
trying to break into the mainstream pay-to-play MUD market Aeternity 
(www.aeternity.com - former Simutronics employee) and Unwritten Legends 
(www.unwritten.net) to name a couple.  Apparently people still think there's 
money to be made in it - I'm just of a different opinion.  To each his own.

I'll stand by what I said - I've matured to where I expect quality game play 
/as well as/ quality graphics.  

-=Savant
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