Norfleet
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Well, not quite true. We DID think of putting fighting game combos in MUDs, but for the most part, network conditions didn't make this terribly viable. We did actually have a MUD that turned combat into an ASCII version of Street Fighter, though.You know, somehow I get this strange idea that because MMORPGs were the unclaimed successor to MUDs which itself were inspired heavily from tabletops, the originators of MMOs never thought about putting fighting game combos in because that would be retarded.
So it's not so much that we didn't want to, so much that technical issues stopped us from doing it...and frankly, still sorta do: Overly actiony combat doesn't work too well in higher ping times.