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

[Caliban Darklock]

On 2/20/07, Johnicholas Hines <johnicholas.hines at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Speaking as a Sims fan, I'd buy the "Sims with anthropomorphic
> furries" over the "Sims with plain humans".

I wouldn't. I'd have zero interest in it. So they'd lose a fan who
bought every release, and gain... well, nothing, since you're already
a fan.

If you had to choose one or the other when both were available, sure,
you'd pick the one with furries. But if only the humans are available,
you buy the humans; if only the furries are available, I buy nothing.
So it's a question of two customers or one customer. That one customer
may be happier, but happiness doesn't really hit the bottom line.