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Originally Posted by Vidar
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The Designers of EQ Disagree. A MUD is a MUD. EQ and UO and DAoC and Asherons call Etc etc etc are classified as MMO's.
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If you have a link or such referencing a dev journal that shows what the EQ designers thought, I would like to see it. Personally, however the EQ designers word is not gospel.
MUD is an old term. The term MMO hadn't even come into use at the time MUD was being used. All we have to do is use a little logic in this siutation though. What makes a MMO comes down to two simple things.
- A persistent world. Even if everyone logs off, the world continues to exists, and does not reset.
- A large amount of concurrent users. This is of course a little more grey, because what is a "large amount"?
MUD's usually fall into category 1, as the worlds are usually persistent and do not reset. If Gemstone 4 (or other MUDs) can host hundreds, if not a thousand users at the same time I'd say it
easily falls into category 2.
MMO is certainly a newer term than MUD, but there's no reason that older games don't meet the definition for the word.