[MUD-Dev2] Player Choice - How Much is Too Much?

[Jean, Yannick]

John Buehler wrote : 
 
> (...)
>  So I would claim that it's not an issue of removal so much as an overall
> pattern of designers walking players into dead ends in the structure of
> their entertainment.  Imagine if there was a den of progressively more
> difficult monsters, and a group is fighting their way to the climax of the
> encounter when they enter a cavernous room and...
>
> They find a couple of standard NPC merchants. (...)
 
 
Perfect description of what current MMORPG end-game feel for the
almost-exclusively soloing Joe Average.