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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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