[MUD-Dev2] Importance of emoting (Was: A rant againstVanguardreviews and rants)

[Michael Hartman]

John Buehler wrote:
> In typed chat,
> players really don't care to expend the effort needed to compose full
> sentences with correctly spelled words, punctuation and such.  It's far more
> work than just saying what they have to say in real life.  They're used to
> the effortlessness of voice, and aren't all that given to working hard at it
> in a game.  This is partly reflected in constructs such as "r u going?"

I actually feel bad for you that these are the types of people you game
with. Everyone I game with refers to people who type like that
as...well, I'll be nice and not list some of the games.

I think you grossly underestimate the percentage of players who eschew
painful looking shortcuts like "r u going." I am pretty much a power
gamer when I play graphical MMOs, and I still couldn't bring myself to
type in such idiot-speak.