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

[Kerry Fraser-Robinson]

Michael Hartman wrote:
> cruise wrote:
>> Persistance Online World? POW!
>> It even has the side-benefit of sounding like WoW...
> 
> POW is kinda awesome.

And it can be pronounced as a single syllable so you can easily throw it 
up against other words and acronyms to make "pow game", "pow FPS", "pow 
RTS", "pow RPG" etc., which are all much easier to say out loud than 
MMOxxx...

I'd certainly rather be using POW than MMO or even VW.  But there's the 
rub.  Even when we come up with an acronym we all prefer, we've then got 
to start propagating the meme pretty voraciously if we're going to 
supplant the MMOxxx set with it.

-KFR