[MUD-Dev2] [DESIGN] Rewards

[cruise]

Thus spake John Buehler...
> To figure out rewards, look at the psychology of those that you want to
> entertain.  Look at the people, not the entertainment.  As they say, having
> customers is the most important business principle.  If the customers you
> want to attract are Star Wars enthusiasts, what is it that they find
> entertaining about Star Wars?  Fighting the empire?  Flying in space?
> Seeing new and strange things?  Seeing their favorite characters?  Providing
> rewards for those experiences is going to decide what kind of a game should
> be created.
> 
> Imagine someone entertained by seeing new and strange things in a current
> game.  There's only so much static content that can be created by hand.
> 
> Imagine someone entertained by seeing their favorite characters.  Won't the
> behavior of those characters be important?  Is that going to work in a
> multiplayer setting, where a crowd follows Chewbaca around everywhere he
> goes?
> 
> Start with the people.

Which is exactly why I started the thread on "reasons for play" - if 
we're going to make good games, it surely makes sense to figure out why 
people play them.
Though it seemed some disagreed with the idea that games should be 
enjoyable...