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Alastair to Hephos:
Interesting conspiracy theory, Alastair, but there is a much simpler answer to that, which Hephos obligingly provided himself:
Hephos:
Naturally the big commercial muds would like more free muds going commercial. If they do, they’d have to compete on the same terms as the other commercials, who then would have the gross advantage of an already established larger playerbase.
The real threat against the commercials is not other commercial muds, but the free muds, especially the good free muds, with a stable playerbase. These have the unique competition advantage of being free. So naturally a person like matt has an interest in changing that. Didn’t you ever ask yourself why he took on such a sanctimonious attitude about IP theft when it concerned a big mud being loosely based on Tolkien’s work, while at the same time he shows a total disregard for the IP of the Diku creators?
Of course the more of the competition they can eliminate, the better for them too. Every mud that shuts down will mean more potential players for themselves. So if any unscrupulous and overoptimistic "highly modified" STOCK mud owner can be persuaded to try and make their players pay to play, so much the better for the commercials. Regardless of the ethical aspects, few players will pay for a next-to-stock mud, so they will most likely dig their own grave.
It’s amazing how gullible some people are. They don’t even realise when they are being conned. So maybe they should all thank Hephos for providing that information, whether it was a Freudian slip or not.
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