In a day and age where gorgeous graphics draw in the big crowds, one journalist asks the question, "What keeps people coming back to text based MUDs after all this time. Those that still play, what are your thoughts?
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/13506/avalon-neverending-mud/
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/13506/avalon-neverending-mud/