Seems disingenuous to not mention MUDs at all, the first of which had been running for a decade at that point. Yes, they added graphics, apparently, but I was p

Seems disingenuous to not mention MUDs at all, the first of which had been running for a decade at that point. Yes, they added graphics, apparently, but I was playing Neverwinter on AOL a year later in 1991 with graphics as well, and quests that worked fine for any number of players, and GM led events and contests that did as well. The MUD I was on had GM led quests and stories and adventures for every single new region that opened as well. So the huge problem they ran into of an event only working for one user just sounds like some thing they blew out of proportion to write what they wanted to write, or they were just ignorant of what everyone else was doing at the time.