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<LI><em>From</em>: "Sellers, Michael" <<A HREF="mailto:MSellers#maxis,com">MSellers#maxis,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:31:23 -0800</LI>
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JC wrote:
> The problem with that view is that it ignores the various things
> that EQ did and are doing that were new and interesting (see
> previous threads and some of the discussions at the dinner), or that
> DIKU, for all the things it did "wrong", it also did a great many
> things very right -- there are very good reasons for its popularity
> after all.
One of the interesting things Brad McQuaid said in our tutorial was that in
making EQ, Verant didn't set out to make an innovative, cutting-edge game
experience: they consciously went for the hack-n-slash, class-based, combat
game experience. So I guess they hit what they were aiming at, and are
justifiably proud of the size of their player-base (edging up on 200,000).
OTOH, as Jonathan Baron pointed out in his "Heat into Light" talk, even
numbers like that are nothing to be all that proud of: even the *worst*
infomercial on at 4am regularly whomps us in terms of viewers (and probably
in terms of paying customers).
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00607" HREF="msg00607.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
Derek Snider <a href="mailto:derek#idirect,com">derek#idirect,com</a>, Wed 15 Mar 2000, 00:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00611" HREF="msg00611.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00615" HREF="msg00615.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00617" HREF="msg00617.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] MUD timeline</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00517" HREF="msg00517.html">[MUD-Dev] Processor Usage</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00521" HREF="msg00521.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Processor Usage</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00526" HREF="msg00526.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Processor Usage</A></strong>,
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