[MUD-Dev] Buying benefits

[Tess Lowe]

Marian Griffith replied:
> Matt Mihaly wrote:

>> I've already sold clothing for more than $1000 actually, but it
>> is highly functional clothing. Current players don't place a high
>> value on how they look in MUDs. They don't derive enough
>> usefulness from looking good.

> True, but then your game is, from what I have read here, highly
> com- petitive, and hardly social. I do not mean to apply that
> there is no social aspect to it (any multi player game has that,
> obviously), but that it is not a major, or even minor, goal in the
> game.

Oooh, no. I'd have to disagree with that. There is no PvP, no
competitiveness, unless it emerges from the social part of the
game. The PvP in Achaea is so intense and addictive *because* the
social rewards are so great, whether it be proving oneself as the
greatest warrior, or demonstrating leadership and perspicacity as a
politician, or even persuading Matt to let you ascend to a divine
role (the ultimate in social success). If there was a social reward
to looking great in Achaea, then I'm sure people would regularly pay
real money for distinctive virtual clothes.

~Tess

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