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From: "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <olag@ifi.uio.no>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: 20 Jun 2002 12:40:01 +0200
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Matt Mihaly <the_logos@achaea.com> writes:
> Almost definitely not. The Mudconnector, for instance, registers
> around 125k unique users a month. Not everybody in the MUD
> community uses it, but being extremely optimistic about the size
> of the market, maybe 1/3 do. That's an extremely optimistic
> estimate of 375k text MUD users. Everquest alone has more
> subscribers than that, and Lineage has millions of players.
(It is not uncommon to have multiple accounts in EQ and Lineage is
different..?)
Anyway, I think you should count in Web-based game/community
services with some notion of "Room" in the text-MUD
population. Which probably would change the picture quite a bit.
--
Ola - http://folk.uio.no/olag/
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