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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. Re:Freeform textual sex? by optikSmoke · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Where was he hiding when MU* games were created.

    Writing it?

  2. 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.

    --
    Tell me something...it's still "We, the people"... right?
  3. Textual by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I put on my robe and wizard hat"