The Permadeath of PvP (was RE: Hiding the Numbers (was Re: [MUD-Dev] Maintaining fiction.)

[Matt Mihaly]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Lee Sheldon wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Mihaly

>> I do not buy that explorers or socializers are necessarily in
>> competition with each other.
 
> I agree, Matt.  The belief that all four quadrants are into
> competition is simply a killer/achiever way of looking at it.  I'd
> suggest that many of those currently working on commercial MUDs
> fall into the killer/achiever category, and share this opinion of
> explorers and socializers.  It might explain why we have a swatch
> of worlds coming out that emphasize PvP (DAoC, Shadowbane, etc.) 
> despite the apparently low percentage of players who actually play
> PvP in current games.  The answer to the low PvP seems to be "They
> did it wrong.  We'll do it right."  I'd argue that no more than
> the same 20% or lower -want- somebody to do it right.  The others
> simply don't want PvP.

Interestingly, I also agree, despite running an extremely heavy PvP
game. I'm very aware I'm targetting a niche within a niche.

--matt

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