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I Was Young And I Needed The Money

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-richard dept.

The Escapist this week is running a great article by Richard Bartle entitled I Was Young And I Needed The Money. He doles out the sordid details of his experience developing a never-released sexy text MMOG. From the article: "All we required was some fiendish mind-control system to persuade people to play a text game when they really wanted to play EverQuest. So, that would be sex, then. I'd written a pitch for a sex MUD about five years earlier, but the funding fell through. Now was the time to dust it off! The thing is, sex in a text world has three things going for it that sex in a graphics world doesn't ... "

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  1. Freeform textual sex? by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Has been around for ages. Where was he hiding when MU* games were created. I'm pretty sure the first line ever said in a MUD is "hey, cool, it's working!" The second: "Wanna fuck?"

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    1. Re:Freeform textual sex? by ccmay · · Score: 2, Funny
      The second: "Wanna fuck?"

      Undoubtedly right, and no doubt many people have discovered sexual gratification that way, but it's not for me.

      Remember, the Internet is where men are men, and women are men, and 14-year-old girls are FBI men.

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    2. Re:Freeform textual sex? by msuzio · · Score: 4, Funny

      Where's the moderation option, +1 - "Oh, Snap"

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  2. This has to be good by mackil · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The thing is, sex in a text world has three things going for it that sex in a graphics world doesn't ... "

    Man am I waiting on the punchline for this!

  3. I thought... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny, when reading the title I thought it was an RPG about being a prostitute. It would be interesting for a change.

  4. Bwahahaha!!! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny
    As for the sex act itself, we implemented it using a modification of the classic MUD combat system.

    Anyone else get to this line and laugh uncontrollably for five minutes straight?

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    1. Re:Bwahahaha!!! by darkhitman · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can't resist this, crude as it may be:

      It is now your turn.
      Your ejaculation hits Kara101 for 32 damage.

      Kara101 has died.


      Experience gained: 50 points.

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    2. Re:Bwahahaha!!! by g33uu · · Score: 3, Funny

      As for the sex act itself, we implemented it using a modification of the classic MUD combat system. This sounds appropriate. Battles in the classic MUD combat system never lasted very long for me.

    3. Re:Bwahahaha!!! by Famanoran · · Score: 2, Funny

      Simple.

      -1 Virginity.
      A death blow to most geeks. :)

  5. Textual by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I put on my robe and wizard hat"

  6. So basically.... by revlayle · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... someone is creating a new IRC channel... right???