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[MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds
On Thursday, December 25, 1997 7:56 AM, Mike
Sellers[SMTP:mike#online-alchemy,com] wrote:
> it is entirely possible that there are now more people playing
> graphical MUDs than text ones; and if there aren't now, there will
be in a
> year. Unbelievable? Far fewer people play text muds than you
probably
> think... and I'll go out on a sturdy limb and predict that there
will be at
> least 250,000 people playing graphical ones within a year.
Oh my, that's very conservative. :) There will be that many within six
months, I expect. I can't discuss exact figures for UO but from
publicly available information regarding M59, DSO, Realm, and UO, it's
possible to arrive at a figure that is already around 125,000 at
least.
-Raph
- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds, (continued)
- [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Tue 06 Jan 1998, 15:58 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Brandon J. Rickman ashes#pc4,zennet.com, Wed 21 Jan 1998, 06:05 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds,
Brandon J. Rickman ashes#pc4,zennet.com, Wed 21 Jan 1998, 07:15 GMT
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