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Being in the top 20 doesn't mean much though. It's the size of your playerbase that matters to us, and none of the RPIs even break 100 simultaneous on a daily basis that I'm aware of. Plus, there are only 3 of them (or so I'm told) sharing the entire RPI playerbase. Achaea's playerbase is bigger than all the RPI players combined. That's not a very attractive market to aim a game at. Helping the RPI market isn't a goal we care about either any more than helping the PK market or helping the bashing market is. Markets don't play MUDs: Players do! A player who likes a PK game is worth the same to us as a player who likes an RPI is worth the same to us as a player who likes bashing is worth the same as a player who likes politics, etc etc. That's not ENTIRELY true, as I'm sure the demographics differ somewhat and the likelihood of paying for the experience differs somewhat, but its close enough to true that we can treat it that way.
There's a presumption by some fans of RPIs that RPIs are somehow a superior way to play. I completely reject that proposition and say that there's no such thing as a superior way to play. There is only what individuals enjoy and for whatever reason, relatively few individuals enjoy RPIs.
--matt
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