The MMO granddaddy you’ve never heard of is celebrating its 35th anniversary, and it still pulls in ‘a few thousand active players’ and needs a staff of 40 to run: ‘We want to be able to survive for another 35 years’
via play.net
Short excerpt below. Read at the original source.
If any one thing can claim responsibility for sending me down the dark, dark path of writing for a living, it’s probably MUDs—text-based MMOs from an era before 3D graphics that somehow still endure today. It wasn’t school, it wasn’t uni, it wasn’t a mentor’s encouragement or some precocious childhood proclivity. I just spent most […]