[MUD-Dev2] [Design] Avoiding the uncanny valley: cartoons andanimals

[Johnicholas Hines]

On 2/19/07, cruise <cruise at casual-tempest.net> wrote:
> It would have lessened the sales still; some people need more reality
> than others, and the extreme of that is some people need as much reality
> as possible. But I doubt it's a significant fraction, though I have no
> evidence for that obviously :P

Speaking as a Sims fan, I'd buy the "Sims with anthropomorphic
furries" over the "Sims with plain humans". One data point isn't much,
but you don't have _any_ data on whether it would have lessened the
sales. Don't assert, measure!

Johnicholas