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

[Adam Martin]

2008/9/5 cruise <cruise at casual-tempest.net>:
> Thus spake Kerry Fraser-Robinson...
>>
>> 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.
>
> Well based on the feedback from here I've already started suggesting it on
> message-boards I frequent. Presumably if those of us making these games
> refer to it thusly, it will filter on through...

This is all tongue-in-cheek, right? I'm English, so I know my
standards of sarcasm are not international standard at the best of
times, especially not in pure text, and in some cases I'm never
entirely sure :).

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