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From: "Freeman, Jeff" <jfreeman@verant.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:56:49 -0700
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> From: Brian Hook [mailto:bwh@wksoftware.com]
> I'm sure they may consider a graphical MUD host if approached
> individually though. I'm actually surprised at the number of MUD
> hosting services available. I can't imagine how it would be
> profitable...
I suspect an awful lot of payments are made in advance for months of
hosting that the MUD never actually uses.
e.g. You pay for six months or a year of hosting (in advance).
Spend three or four months with no users (other than maybe a handful
of wizards) building the MUD. Actually run the mud for a month or
two with a minimal number of users (because it's a new MUD that no
one knows about).
Then you quit, because running a MUD isn't as much fun as you
thought it would be.
I can't imagine the bandwidth costs are really all that high for the
first few months (or year, even), and I bet most new MUDs don't last
much longer than that.
That's just a guess, though. I don't actually know that new MUDs
tend to close-up shop within the first year. So... call it a
(cynical) suspicion on my part.
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