The end of MUME is near. Any guesses how and when it closes for good?

My guess: On January 12, 2005 a Swedish mouse accidently pulls the plug on the server and it (the server, not the mouse) is turned into a meatball steamer 3 days later after MUME technicians are unable to figure out that the fat prong goes in the fat slot. The good new is: Only two are fatally electrocuted working on the problem and neither of them is me.

I'd say a slow death of attrition as more and more people slowly realize how stagnant Mume has become. One day a guy is going to log on and wonder 'hey, is this mud new? anyone else play here besides a few idling gods?'

everybody quits?

The game ends when people actually get a life. MUDs just don't cut it anymore.

Are our swedish mice emmigrating to Norway? How else would a swedish mouse electrocute a server located in Norway?

Mandor, with a reallly - really - long tail? ;)

Anyway, the "MUME is dying" stories are ancient. Many declared that MUME is dead years ago, yet the population of active players is growing. That said, it appears noone really cares whether MUME is a stagnant mud or not, they still play.

Mume will never die! I know multiple people who have just started playing, I myself continue to come back (I take month breaks every once and awhile). I have tried other MUDs and either they have too many rules or too few. MUME is juuust right.

1. MANDOR: I made him a Swedish mouse because I can't spell Norweejin.

2. NIUMRAN & ANDROG: All things end. MUME is worse than stagnant. It's never played poorer or been less fun. For the majority it is nothing more than a bad habit.

Not with a bang but with a whimper.

Ack, you unknown, stole my comment!

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

And yes, both Cortana and TS Elliot are frightfully competent.

Mume is dead! R.I.P!

Seeing the Dain's post about "MUME accounts activity statistics" on Flame board I am definite that MUME is farther from being dead than it has ever been.

first mume dwindles, after a couple of years no one plays, the last 2 people to play the mud is a newbie, and a darkie, the Newbie is walking around fornost, the darkie realizes this, and there are only 2 of them on the entire mud, just two people, and the orc kills newbie, kills again, then again, newbie quits, then the orc is all alone, he quits also, and that is the end.

All those new accounts are probably created by pSnakr.

Hahaha...

There are no mice in Sweden. Only in filthy baltic countries!

MUME will die when everyone finally realizes that the management is horendously inefficient and they simple move on to a better game.

Management will then simply quit when they realize only morons play their game still.

The game ends when Yavanna orders Manwe to change his sexist name. Yavanna says "MAN-we!?? You sexist pig. Change it right now to WOMAN-we or I'll change it for you with a rusty razor blade." Hands shaking at the prospect of an ad hoc gender reassignment, Manwe accidently shoots the server when Yavanna unexpectly shows the good sense to duck. Fortunately he had more bullets, so the story really does have a happy ending.

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P.S. Britney: This isn't whining. It is satire.

I dont think you realize, have you tried different muds? I think mume is one of the best one's out there, I hope it doesnt die

MUME aint dying, recently I`ve "recruted" 6 new players (showed em the game) and they all cant stop playing now.

MUME ruined both mine and (p)nirlin`s life, let em ruin all the others too! :P

Player numbers are lower than ever, the game is more boring than ever, the new zones are the most boring yet, they're more and more unimaginative and 'safe'. PK is getting boring, exploring is getting boring, rp is lower than ever, what's the point?

It's seems to me you're just another guy going through one of the last phases before quiting...

Problem is with this damn game there's no quitting no matter how sick of it you are. Everyone always comes pathetically crawling back to it. Myself included :)

I don't.

i got 2 friends to play mume and were all hooked ts not going down!!!!! if they need money in the future i can help with that. Agarnon, Chubbs are my friends

As long as there are ppl so frustrated with their real lives that they wish to escape entirely, to a world where death is measured in lost XP and success is immeasurable, MUME will continue.

Mume is not dying, BUT mume has changed ALOT the last 2-3 years. The new players have no recpect for the oldies :P what i maen also is that the RP part is all gone.. its all about spamm lvl so u can pk. of corse PK is the key in a mud.. but mume is extreme.. i have stopped playing because all the old known names are gone.. and there is noone to "look up to" exept P(nazzul,anatir) who i showed the game to.. i must suck :( still i liked [ML] Norsu.. azzazello group.. mochomurka, bree raids.. newbie traps in tharbad.. but now its all about multiclass eqeqeqeq whinewhine.. how to be the best and so on.. and some of the new changes is also killing the game.. many things.. but sadly ppl like tinsal "recrute" friends that dont know the essnsial about mume and muds.. and all thay have to do is spamm f1 or f2 when thay are told..

MUME is not dying! Yesterday, I just made a battlemage/cleric dwarf and pwned some uber lions and spammed leveled to 62, now I can pk all over the place, spamloot any day I want. I never rip penis (RP) because its a bad ting 2 do.

It took you ALL yesterday just to get to level 62. What a slacker!!

Some 10-11 years ago, I was a whiney newbie complaining on prays about how unfair this game is, how it is dying, how noone will play it ever again because the changes du jour, etc (I got wizkilled by CryHavoc for it too!). Ah, those were the days... You, guys, make me feel old :(

You choke a bartender.

#! CW>n
Main Street
Clint the Dwarf is here.
Rattus the Newbie is here riding a pack horse.
Exits: [north] east west

#! CW>grin
You grin evilly.

k rattus
#! CW>You pound Rattus's left arm extremely hard and shatter it.
Rattus is incapacitated and will die if not aided.

#! CW>giv bottle clint
Clint starts following you.
Clint joins your fight.

Clint slashes Rattus's body extremely hard and shatters it.
Your blood freezes as you hear Rattus's death cry.
Rattus has drawn his last breath! R.I.P.

If Wotmud had choosable stats I'd never play Mume again.

Seeing how MUME playerbase has been getting younger with each version I'm afraid it "ends" for me when there are no mature players left. There are just too few "nice teens" around - most of them are spammy, rude and ignorant.
Back to '98 there was what like 10% at most below 21. Now?... It looks other way around almost.
Take for example wall on this site. Some idiot teen is spamming it nonstop.

Yeah, one of the greater factors in deciding how enjoyable a game is would be the playerbase. You can have all the fancy descriptions and interesting quests you can write, but if the players are annoying, selfish, immature and illiterate, it makes the game a misery to play. Even a crap game can be enjoyable with the right people playing it.

ROFL im guessing "Known" is duendel. You crack me up dude.

You guess wrong. Does duendel make sense ever? If you don't know what I'm talking about you are probably too new player yourself aswell.