[MUD-Dev] The audience is the medium. For now.

[Damion Schubert]

>From John Buehler

> And I wonder how much that would kill achievement-centered games.
> People work through all the crap that they do so that they CAN go
> on a plane raid and be part of that experience.  Not that I'm
> worried about killing off achievement-centered games.  I favor a
> game which is rather more observation-oriented than
> control-oriented.

I suspect that a new type of player activity would rise:
showboating.  Sure, anyone can kill this dragon, but can everyone do
it while morphed as a cat?  Spouting Monty Python lines?  Do it
solo?

People are remarkably good at finding ways to be creative in a new
medium.

--d
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