I made a demonstration video for Batmud’s official client, Batclient. It is the coolest mud client that I have ever seen.

After playing wow I noticed that wow is just 3d version of muds. Wow has many same features, but it lacks many. Wow is easier and “modern”.

Here is simple list features where wow is better than muds.

• Easier
• Modern “3d” graphs
• Huge amount of players

And where muds are better than wow…

• Choice (there is many muds to choose)
• Challenging (Much much more challenging quests.)
• Triggers, clients, scripts… (If you like programming, you love to write various scripts/triggers to your mud client)
• Multi platform (Works on every platform and almost on every computer)
• Open source (Want to make your own mud?
• Great ideas (Interesting world, nice quests (not just “go kill that and come back”-like quests. You need your brains…)
• Dynamic world. (Players can build their own castles and cities.)
• Much more content. (More spells, More mobs, More eq, More everything)
• Free

So, if you want something more challenging than wow, try muds. They are very fun when you learn them and it can take years to learn everything.

Only thing that I see why peoples play wow, is the graphics.

I recommend to try Batmud. It is very popular and great mud. It also has nice client that makes playing it easier.

Good luck…

I have stopped playing wow… It repeats itself far too much. Its just killing monster after monster. Every task is the same, kill that, get that… Only thing that changes over time is numbers, colors and size of the monsters. Grinding is boring.

What I like on wow is the user interface. Everything is clear and simple. But the greatest feature is addons. I installed Titanpanel and Questhelper. Both are very nice addons. Titanpanel is awesome addon.

Yes, the end game with 70-80 level character minght be very fun, but I don’t want to waste my time to create that char. Grinding just isn’t worth of 13e/month.

Yesterday, I started free 10 day trial of popular mmorpg World of Warchart. After playing lots of muds, I try to find out if there is something new…

Trial installation download wasn’t very bigI got it up and running in 30mins. There was some problems with wine, because wine didn’t like the automatic background download of resource when playing. (Trial installer loads more stuff on background) I disabled it and found the login screen. Then is the time to create account. I closed wow…

…And started account creation. It was pretty easy and simple, but I don’t like that I had to give my card number just to play free trial… Otherwise the account creation is nice and easy.

First hours. In 2 hours I managed to get my dwarf to level 5. The game feel same as mud’s, but with graphics… But this is only my opinion with 2 hours of playing… I can’t say what is the end game like.

Technically, the game is great. Platinium-level wine compatibility and nice graphics.

My level 5 dwarf

Most people don’t know what are muds, and many who knows would never touch them. But I personally like muds(Multi User Dungeon) very much. Muds aren’t so big as biggest MMORPG, but on largest muds, there is enough content for everyone. Example on my favorite, Batmud, there is over 15000 rooms to explore. Also the fighting/experience systems are very advanced. Main problem for some people is that there is no graphics at all, just the game. But what you can expect for over 15 years old massive multiplayer game?

But here is list why muds are so great. (especially Batmud)

• You can play them on any computer that can be connected to Internet
• It is Multi User game!
• Massive world
• Nice story and interesting task (not just “go kill all and come back”)
• Totally free, no “premium accounts”
• Friendly community

So, if you like games like Nethack, ADOM etc, I will recommend you to try out Batmud. It is the best Mud, and there is also a nice Batclient, that makes playing easier for beginners.