[MUD-Dev2] [Design] Where are all the amateur MMORPG devs?

[Jeffrey Kesselman]

Okay, as a published author and son of published authors I'm going to
chiem in and disagree here  on one point.

Aurel <aurel.gets.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> For the same reason that amateurs don't flock to create amateur movies,
> but scifi and fantasy magazines are inundated with submissions. Making
> an expertly crafted story with words is relatively easy.

Wrong.

Writing hack crap is easy.  Which is what the vast majority of fanfic
is.

"Making an expertly crafted story with words" is very difficult.

Unfortunately the reading public by and large doesnt know the
difference anymore.  The fact that the Drizt novels topped the NYt
bets seller list proves that rather conclusively.

You are correct however that writing a crap piece of fiction doesn't
cost anything more then a word processor and some time.  Making even a
crap movie requires some skills and more equipment.  So in general, i
think your analogy holds, i just differ on the details.