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From: Byron Ellacott <bje@apnic.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:42:02 +1000
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Freeman, Jeff wrote:
> From: Byron Ellacott
>> That's true, but Raph was speaking about retention. Force,
>> encourage, require social interaction and you presumably forge
>> bonds that people are reluctant to sever by leaving the game.
> I have a hard time accepting this as fact, personally, because it
> hasn't ever worked to keep me playing a game.
Anecdotally, I don't believe it has ever worked to keep me playing a
game, either.
The original quote, from
https://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2004Q3/msg00243.php:
Raph Koster wrote:
> We may not like it, but all empirical evidence at the moment
> seems to show that requiring cooperative team play for success
> causes greater retention.
Raph, or anyone else, could you clarify which empirical evidence has
shown this, or offer an alternative explanation for why this is so?
--
bje
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