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5148: RE: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP
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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@origin.ea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:38:32 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wednesday, January 07, 1998 11:19 AM, Ola Fosheim=20
Gr=F8stad[SMTP:olag@ifi.uio.no] wrote:
> Besides wasn't/isn't M59 a 3D hack'n'slash a'la DIKU? Kill=20
monsters
> or social interaction? Most people I met were not really=20
roleplaying,
> they didn't claim to be either.
Most were not roleplaying in the sense of role-acting. They are not=20
roleplaying on UO either. They are also not roleplaying on most gaming=20
text muds, period (gaming as opposed to collaborative storytelling).=20
Not even on the highly detailed, complex, socially interesting,=20
roleplay-oriented ones.
-Raph