[MUD-Dev] Massive Online Gaming magazine

[shren]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Zach Collins (Siege) wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Dr. Cat wrote:
 
>> "big 5" games (UO, EQ, DAOC, AO, AC), and a few pages each on the
>> "second tier" games (currently Lineage, WW2 Online, and
>> Furcadia), shorter profiles of some other games, and the "Ping"
>> section has a paragraph, screenshot, and basic info on everything
>> they know of - some 100 games or more in the first issue.  Said
>> issue also has a Q&A with our own Raph Koster, and four pages of
>> "designer note" by me.  Starting in the second issue, there'll be
>> an regular opinion and/or industry news column I'll be writing
>> for them.

> Since you'll be writing for them, perhaps you can acquire and post
> an explanation for what criteria determines a game's rank as "Top
> five", "Second tier", or "Other".  My impression is that Anarchy
> Online isn't in the top five in terms of population or income, and
> how is Furcadia within the top eight, not to mention Lineage's
> second-class ranking.  I'd also appreciate seeing some data to
> help back up that explanation.

Furcadia fills a different niche than any other included game, and
is probably the largest game in that niche.


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