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16001: RE: [MUD-Dev] A list of MMORPG Questions

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu 
> [mailto:mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> Marc Bowden
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 6:02 AM
> To: mud-dev@kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] A list of MMORPG Questions 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, December 6, 2000 9:58 PM -0800 J C Lawrence 
> <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:11:29 -0600
> > Bloo  <Steve> wrote:
> >
> >> What MMORPG?
> >
> > A dyslexic attempt at the word MUD by someone with far too many
> > fingers?
> >
> > (Sorry, I'll go away quietly now)
> 
> It's the latest in TrendySpeak(tm). It's just another word for a
> MUD-like game, albiet one that the designers hope will allow them to
> retire to their own private carribean island populated by tight-bunned
> sex slaves.

I have now (shudder) seen references to muds as being "text-based
MMORPGs."

Meridian 59 was actually marketed as a graphical mud. It didn't help
anyone except mudders (who aren't a very large market). The computer
game market had no idea what it meant. And I don't think the
commercial text muds actually used the word mud by and large (did
they?).

As far as the origin of the term--well, I guess it started with UO,
since I don't recall it being applied to anything else. There were
discussions on "what to call this thing" and I of course said "well,
it's a graphical mud."  But that meant nothing to the
press. Multiplayer game meant 16 people at the time, hence the coinage
of "massively multiplayer."

Such a hideous term, and I think we're stuck with it now... :(

-Raph
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