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RE: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu [mailto:mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu]On Behalf Of
> Kevin Littlejohn
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:43 PM
> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items
> Does this actually filter down to the game designers? It seems the MMORPG
> programmers (and other computer game programmers) are brutally
> aware of the
> commercial implications of design issues in their games (ref: someone's
> "scratch any game programmer, you'll find someone disillusioned, but
> looking for the next team to be the one where they get it right") - are
> arcade game designers likewise writing games with a view to bringing in as
> much coin as they can, or is it a different feel? Just curious...
The alleged reason that many of the classic coin-op games was so hard was
because of the arcade operator's demands that games have an average length
of under 3 minutes. Williams in particular was mentioned often as a
developer that had this mindset...
-Raph
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- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items, (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items,
Par Winzell zell#alyx,com, Mon 17 Apr 2000, 05:31 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items,
Matthew Mihaly the_logos#achaea,com, Mon 17 Apr 2000, 16:22 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items,
adam adam#treyarch,com, Tue 18 Apr 2000, 00:06 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items,
Kevin Littlejohn darius#connect,com.au, Tue 18 Apr 2000, 19:48 GMT
- RE: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items,
Raph Koster rkoster#austin,rr.com, Tue 18 Apr 2000, 22:19 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items,
Timothy Dang tdang#U,Arizona.EDU, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 02:11 GMT
- RE: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items,
Zak Jarvis zak#voidmonster,com, Mon 17 Apr 2000, 16:21 GMT
- RE: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items,
Matthew Mihaly the_logos#achaea,com, Mon 17 Apr 2000, 20:16 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] banning the sale of items,
J. Coleman stormknight#alltel,net, Tue 18 Apr 2000, 19:48 GMT
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