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<LI><em>From</em>: Matthew Mihaly <<A HREF="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:07:15 -0800 (PST)</LI>
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, J C Lawrence wrote:
> Unarguably both are physically capable of being equally "excellent"
> for whatever your definition of "excellent" is. Further, I doubt
> any of us would argue that there are "free" MUDs out there that are
> of at least equal "quality" to the commercial offerings, taken as a
> whole and not in specific aspects (we all have flaws) for whatever
> your quality metrics are. However, (and I consider this a fairly
> safe broad and sweeping generality) each has a different concept of
> their target market, and their commitment to serving that market.
I might also add that lumping all commercial muds together is a
mistake. A small commercial mud is generally going after a considerably
different market, and doing so in considerably different ways, from a
large commercial mud.
> You have to _name_, _want_, and _get_ your product.
You also have to have the resources to execute your product. I don't see a
hobbyist pulling off something equivalent to UO/AC/EQ.
> How does all this plug into things like customer service, help
> files, tech support, and such? On the one side purpose achievement
> defines what level of assistance you need to provide to your terget
> market and how important it is. Its a fairly simple equation all
> told and on the commercial side there are money and resources on
> hand (to some level) for making sure it is done. On the hobbyest
> side however, its easy to overlook these "boring" things, and far
> too easy (and attractive) to just dump them and tacitly reclassify
> the target market as "people who can understand this stuff without
> my help and none o' them luser idiots either".
> Just how many OpenSource applications out there have decent
> user-level documentation that a non-IT person has a chance of
> understanding?
Amen. A lot of programmers program for fun. I don't know anyone who writes
documentation for fun.
> ** I know of a highly profitable jazz (***) radio station, now sadly
> closed, that had incredible key affluent demographic penetration.
> Their total listening audience was not large, but it dominated
> certain demographics. On that basis they were able to charge, and
> easily get, fees for advertising that were fifteen or more times
> that of local pop stations that had audiences of, literally, a
> hundred times their size (but was mostly listed to by less affluent
> teeangers/young couples, etc).
This is exactly what I believe small commercial muds are good at, or can
be good at.
--matt
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00404" HREF="msg00404.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00407" HREF="msg00407.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00410" HREF="msg00410.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00415" HREF="msg00415.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00422" HREF="msg00422.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00426" HREF="msg00426.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>,
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