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14299: RE: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens
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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@origin.ea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:21:39 -0500
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ola Fosheim Gr=F8stad [mailto:olag@ifi.uio.no]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 4:40 PM
> To: mud-dev@kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens
>=20
> I don't know enough about Japan to actually make a sensible comment. =
I
> just thought that it might be worthwhile to add that we in=20
> the west are
> not very well equipped for understanding non-western cultures on the
> emotional level. We don't really fully understand the concept of
> honour/pride/shame tied to your entire family... We don't really
> understand that the person-body relationship can be perceived
> differently either...
>=20
> I wonder if a MUD targeting arabian countries could be designed in a
> different way than one targeting say, the US?
I recently got back from Taiwan. I kid you not when I say that every =
single
Taiwanese UO player I met was a playerkiller. I have been informed by =
the
folks out there that this is in fact the tendency throughout Asia.
-Raph
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