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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Richard Bartle <<A HREF="mailto:76703.3042#compuserve,com">76703.3042#compuserve,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:57:40 -0400</LI>
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Vadim Tkachenko <vt#freehold,crocodile.org> wrote:
>Richard Bartle wrote:
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>> Companies would rather learn the mistakes themselves (then lose the staff
>> who learned it to other companies who pay better) than pay someone to tell
>> them where they're going wrong in the first place.
>
>Excellent quotation, but did you mean 'then' instead of 'than'? Both
>make a perfect sense in the RL...
What I meant is that companies (in the UK, anyway) seem to have the
attitude that they would rather learn mistakes themselves than pay someone
to tell them what their mistakes are. However, no sooner have they
acquired the expertise in-house than the people who have it go away,
either to form their own company or to work for someone else who's
more desperate to get into the online gaming industry than the people who
employed them in the first place.
The implication is that the first company should have hired the
consultant, but of course that would be the implication, given that I AM a
consultant..!
Richard
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00182" HREF="msg00182.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Tue 13 Oct 1998, 19:21 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00198" HREF="msg00198.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>,
Richard Bartle <a href="mailto:76703.3042#compuserve,com">76703.3042#compuserve,com</a>, Wed 14 Oct 1998, 09:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00199" HREF="msg00199.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>,
Vadim Tkachenko <a href="mailto:vt#freehold,crocodile.org">vt#freehold,crocodile.org</a>, Wed 14 Oct 1998, 13:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00200" HREF="msg00200.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>,
Michael.Willey <a href="mailto:Michael.Willey#abnamro,com">Michael.Willey#abnamro,com</a>, Wed 14 Oct 1998, 13:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00201" HREF="msg00201.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>,
Richard Bartle <a href="mailto:76703.3042#compuserve,com">76703.3042#compuserve,com</a>, Wed 14 Oct 1998, 15:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00213" HREF="msg00213.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>,
ApplePiMan <a href="mailto:ApplePiMan#aol,com">ApplePiMan#aol,com</a>, Thu 15 Oct 1998, 00:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00220" HREF="msg00220.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Thu 15 Oct 1998, 23:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00221" HREF="msg00221.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>,
ApplePiMan <a href="mailto:ApplePiMan#aol,com">ApplePiMan#aol,com</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 02:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00231" HREF="msg00231.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Laws of Online World Design</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Fri 16 Oct 1998, 20:49 GMT
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