[MUD-Dev] Avault article: The End of the Smurfs?

[Zak Jarvis]

This isn't going to be news to some of you, but I got blindsided by it this
morning.

http://avault.com/articles/getarticle.asp?name=smurfs

Teaser snippet:

	No one is more reliant on volunteer labor than the massively multiplayer
online 	games. The three largest online fantasy role-playing titles,
EverQuest, Ultima 	Online and Asheron's Call, use them as their first line
of customer service. But 	maybe not for long. On Monday, August 28,
representatives of Ultima Online's makers, 	Origin Systems Inc. (OSI),
announced the termination of free game account privileges 	for hundreds of
community volunteers. In a letter to the community, external support
coordinator Matt Gutierrez wrote: "Due to changes in the industry regarding
volunteers, effective Sept. 30, 2000, OSI will no longer provide free
player 	accounts or other added value to members of all [Ultima Online]
Volunteer Programs."

 "Every put-down becomes a dungeon
  And every prejudice turns into broken glass and bludgeons"
                    -Every Force Evolves a Form / Shriekback

-Zak Jarvis
 http://www.voidmonster.com






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