When Roy Trubshaw and I worked on MUD1, we saw it as a means of giving people freedom. For players, freedom to do and to be; for us, freedom to make our imaginations real (well, OK, virtual). Most of the early UK virtual worlds that followed had that same sense of idealism. After our "high energy" presentation, the questions were even stranger. Someone asked why humanities research got left out, and we had to say that we couldn't find it to be directly relevant on our top 10 list of bulleted points. Ian made the point, and I agreed, that doing the research for this panel made us think differently about academic research. While I'm not going to say that what we've done personally has no value, it was a definite challenge to try and make it *directly relevant* in a BULLETED POINT for developers.

Similar to last year, Eve Online is paired up in the first round with another sci-fi MMO. The difference this year is that Tabula Rasa is a recently launched game while Anarchy Online was launched before Eve Online and is showing its age. The differences do not stop there because one of the few common aspects between Tabula Rasa and Eve Online is that both games have a sci-fi setting.

When asked about MMOs with no subscription fees and great graphics, these are two of the first games that come to mind. Guild Wars has been a monster hit and has won a number of awards on GameOgre, while Rappelz arrived with a large splash of its own.

This match is interesting because it pits one of the first free MMORPGs against one of the new breed free MMORPGs. RuneScape has been around for years and has amassed millions of players who seem to either love or hate the game while Sword of the World is one of the better looking MMOs and has plenty of interesting features that are innovations in the genre.

With the popularity of fantasy and sci-fi MMOs, games not in one of those genres usually do not achieve much mainstream success. These two MMOs buck that trend and represent their respective niches well. City of Heroes dominates the very small super hero niche while 9 Dragons is a leading game in the increasingly crowded martial arts niche.

Two of the best free MMORPGs and most reviewed games on GameOgre met in this match. FlyFF has consistently been on or near the Top Ten for years, while Maple Story has too many players who absolutely hate it to have a high review score on a regular basis.

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