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Wireplay

  • noun The incarnation of MUD2 running on Wireplay since 1997. Also known as WP.

    Historical note: after years of looking at the online industry completely the wrong way, BT was suddenly hit by a bolt of sanity (in the person of Colin Duffy) and started up the Wireplay system. A properly-staffed, properly-funded, properly-organised, properly-equipped (eventually!) division, its aim was to make online games as accessible as possible. Most of these were of the "small numbers of people killing each other at speed" variety, but they saw from the outset the need for a MUD, and MUD2 was the one they chose. Wireplay has since been sold off to gameplay.com, but the name for the MUD2 incarnation has stuck. Large numbers of people who joined Wireplay for its other games have tried MUD2, and a good many have found that they like it enough to play regularly. The constant supply of newbies means that the game is fresh and invigorating, although it continually needs to be enriched in order to cope with their ever increasing demands. Not that MUSE is complaining, of course!


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