Re: Rates of game disappearance

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:13:19 +0000

>>:I always assumed that the horde of free, human-moderated, fantasy RPGs
:would come and go at a much faster rate than commercial games. But,
:amusingly enough, the same fraction of "free fantasy email" games have
:dead links as commercial games in my list.<<

Yep, there are as many time wasters and daydreamers in commercial pbm as there
are in free pbm. <grin>  People mean well, I think, but then find out thats its
rather harder work than they thought it would be...

>>.. and in my (limited) experience, the service provided for free is usually
as good or better than the service provided for money:)<<

Given the hundreds of free and commercial PBMs there are, thousands even, I
would guess thats a very difficult statement to make with any real accuracy or
knowledge.  I expect its as varied a truth as the games themselves.

>>Can't explain it ... maybe people doing it for free just care more ? :)<<

I wouldn't begin to suggest I know how much somebody else cares about
something. Seems a bit of a generic statement to me.

Steve T.

References

Re: Rates of game disappearance
Bruce.sinclair@NOT_agresearch.co.nz (Bruce Sinclair)
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:33:28 +0000