[MUD-Dev2] Bad Terminology: MMO, MMORPG vs. MUD

cruise cruise at casual-tempest.net
Thu Aug 28 10:41:09 CEST 2008


Thus spake Kerry Fraser-Robinson...
> I think "Persistent" is important.  That tells people the it's a 
> permanent place and will still be there when they are not.  "Online" is 
> important because it tells people where it is.  And we've got all sorts 
> of options for the word that tells people what it is such as world, 
> game, dimension, universe, plane etc.  Scrabble champions are best 
> suited to help our cause I reckon. ;)

Persistance Online World? POW!
It even has the side-benefit of sounding like WoW...



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