Posted by 5 years and going strong.... on December 13, 1999 at 05:59:50:
In Reply to: Something I came across... might be a worthwhile read: posted by Village Elder on December 13, 1999 at 01:51:00:
This has described the past 5 years of my life almost perfectly, and frankly it scares the piss out of me I plan to quit(or maybe not) com may, we shall see... > The problem usually gets solved in one of three ways: > A lot of the things in this article have been exaggerations, but I have seen even the worst cases in the course of
Don't read any further!!!
> 1.The player quits completely. They usually end up
> making some long speech on some player forum about
> how muds and the Internet are evil and people who spend time in them are stupid. That this player has
> finally seen the truth and encourages the others to do the same. Some of the players succeed in leaving,
> others return to phase 2. Some return periodically just to announce to everybody what a great time they
> are having in real life now and how much better they are doing (but still feeling compelled to login to a mud
> to tell all this).
> 2.The player stays on, because they cannot do anything else. They do not really want to login that much, but
> something drives them to it. Every moment they spend on the mud they feel guilty and bad about
> themselves and start to take this out on the mud and its players and wizards. Nothing is good enough for
> these people. They find fault with everything. It's like the whole mud is a conspiracy against them, and they
> cannot get enough of how good things were back in the good old days. Everything that has been done
> since has only ruined the mud more and more and the current people playing at the mud are so stupid too
> that nobody can stand them. Nothing like the good old days when everybody was so nice and kind to
> each other.
> 3.After possibly going through phases 1 and 2, the player settles down and tries to find a happy medium
> between real life and mudding. They realize what the mud really is, just a game. It is not some means to
> solve their real life problems. It is also not worth it to toss ones life away.
> my mudding life. One might ask what good are muds if they lead to such strife in so many people, but that is a
> topic for another article...