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16836: RE: [MUD-Dev] A Brief History of Commercial MUDs

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From: "Klimon, Ian" <KlimIa@TimeGateStudios.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:14:44 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koster, Raph [mailto:rkoster@verant.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:59 AM
> To: 'mud-dev@kanga.nu'
> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] A Brief History of Commercial MUDs

> I think it is safe to say that either one is larger than the total
> combined *commercial* text mud community. The single largest block
> of commercial text muds is the stable of games at Simutronics, which
> I think has around 60,000 people (any Simu folks around to offer a
> correction? I guess I could ask Elonka, I've seen her around the GDC
> conference twice today...)

At one point Simutronics had some 600,000 characters (not accounts)
created (per Greg Allen), but in terms of active subscribers for
GemStoneIII and Dragonrealms I would venture a guess of around
20,000-30,000 people combined.

-ian
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