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17012: Re: [MUD-Dev] Project Entropia

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Batir wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <the_logos@www.achaea.com>
> To: <mud-dev@kanga.nu>
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 10:05 PM
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Project Entropia

>> (dig at stratics: If you think UO was the first game in which
>> people sold characters for real money, you need to open your eyes a
>> bit.)
 
> As Raph so often told UO players, if they'd listen, UO is hardly the
> *first* to do almost anything it did (such as not being the first
> graphical mud).  Unfortunetly, not many listen.  First in such scale
> and in the common popular awareness would be the most accurate,
> methinks.

Yes, clearly, and I wouldn't have a problem with that if these
self-billed experts phrased it that way. The writer in question,
however, stated unequivocally that selling characters first happened
in UO. It just makes him look silly to anyone with any significant
online gaming experience.

--matt

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