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Odd. I said, in my post, that it's pertinent information. Used those exact words in fact. I'm not sure where you're getting the above from.
That is as nonsensical as saying that real-life doesn't affect a MUD. PK, for instance, is quite traumatizing to many people, and many people will not play a MUD with PK for precisely that reason: because it affects their real-life in a way they don't wish it to.
As for making money, TMS customers have generated about $1500 in the last month and a half for us. If you seriously think I'd spend time arguing over $1500, you don't understand our business. In any case, the last kind of player we do want is someone totally opposed to paying MUDs for things. All they do is cost us money by using up our bandwidth.
My objections are purely practical. As an avid MUD player for 11 years now, whether I have to pay for a great experience or not isn't relevant to me. I'm far more concerned with knowing things like, "How original is this MUD?" "Does it have PK?" "What level of customer/player service can I expect?" "Are people allowed to speak in kiddie hacker speak? (l33t and that sort of nonsense)."
Am I greedy? Damn right I am, for which I make no apologies, as there's nothing wrong with it at all. The nature of running a business involves being greedy for revenue. But on the hand, I don't see a $ symbol or whatnot next to the commercial MUDs as hurting the commerical MUDs. Most likely it would cement the perception that commercial MUDs are better than free MUDs, because, after all, one could see with a glance that all the "top muds" are commercial. (Note that I'm not willing to make some blanket statement that all commercial MUDs are better than free MUDs. I don't care who is 'better', as it's irrelevant and subjective. I'm just speaking to the likely perception of a new visitor to the site, upon seeing a rankings list clearly dominated by commercial MUDs.)
--matt
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