[MUD-Dev2] [OFF-TOPIC] A rant against Vanguard reviews and rants

[Caliban Darklock]

On 2/21/07, Michael Sellers <mike at onlinealchemy.com> wrote:
>
> DIKU and LambdaMOO are about as relevant as Whigs and arrow
> collars.  The sooner we all snap out of the 1980s and realize that the
> better off we'll be.

The problem with this mindset is that there are a vast array of things
that were simply DONE BETTER on the old text-based servers, and we're
still trying to figure out how to give the player a better experience
across the board.

A large part of this is that in a text-based game, you have better
conversations, because your brain is in verbal mode. We don't know how
to get your brain into verbal mode while you're pointing and clicking.
Voice chat is an option, but that has its own special category of
problems.

The gist of it is, things are Not Good Enough, and many of us hold the
opinion that some of these things were better in the text days. That
doesn't mean we shouldn't do graphical, and it certainly doesn't mean
we should imitate text - it means the text drivers are still relevant,
and will remain so into the foreseeable future.