[Home] [Groups] - Message: [Prev in Group] [Next in Group]

nu.kanga.list.mud-dev

12489: RE: [MUD-DEV] a shrinking pool of players?

[Full Header] [Plain Text]
From: "Sellers, Michael" <MSellers@maxis.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 07:12:17 -0800
Organization: Kanga.Nu
JD wrote:
> MSellers@maxis.com writes:
> 
> >> it's between 10,000 and 200,000 at the extreme high end. Probably
around
> >> 50K.  Just a gross estimate, but I've run these numbers before and I
think
> >> we tend to overestimate them.   >>
> 
> Heh, EQ alone can testify to the 50k mark...

I was speaking of the number of *text* MUD players.  If the patterns we saw
on M59 are any guide, most UO/EQ/AC players have never played a text MUD,
and have no intention of doing so.  These are largely separate markets.

Mike Sellers



_______________________________________________
MUD-Dev maillist  -  MUD-Dev@kanga.nu
http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev