One of the appealing things about playing

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Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Imagine 20+ years ago they got it right but in present day they can't seem to get it right. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think 20+ years ago you had people with experience playing MUDs, like Dungeons & Dragons, making MMORPGs. Now, you have business people trying to monetize every tiny thing in games and not concentrating on the player experience and MUDs/MMORPGs are dependent on that experience. From the Wiki on MUDs (I'm sure most of us know this already, but for those that don't):

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Games such as Meridian 59, EverQuest, Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot were routinely called graphical MUDs in their earlier years.RuneScape was actually originally intended to be a text-based MUD, but graphics were added very early in development. However, with the increase in computing power and Internet connectivity during the late nineties, and the shift of online gaming to the mass market, the term "graphical MUD" fell out of favor, being replaced by MMORPG, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, a term coined by Richard Garriott in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
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