TMC Player Reviews: The Gathering...

(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author [Kedanna] and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff).

Well first let me say hi. I am founder and co-owner of the mud in
question. I'll like to start off with the 'nit-pick at the smallest
things and grow it into some sort of bigger problem' that he spoke
of. He was in a public area, caressing a girls butt. Now we do allow
sexual roleplay on our mud, but not in public. Tykune and the immortal
disagreed on if the butt caressing counted as sexual roleplay or not.
Rather than moving the roleplay to a private area, he fought with the
immortal over it. Very few muds allow players to fight with an imm
while enforcing the rules.

Also at the start of the roleplay, the character he was playing with
started out under-aged, and tried to change that during the roleplay
to keep him from getting in trouble. Which to me shows that the person
he was playing with agreed that it was too sexual of a roleplay. She
changed her rpsheet, and her short desc to reflect her age change, but
she still had the description of an under-aged char. So... call the
nit-picking if you like, I call it enforcing the rules.

More strict rules... yes that is true. Compared to when the mud first
opened six years ago we had more strict rules in place. Back when
anything was allowed, anywhere. I wanted a better mud than that, so I
asked the immortal staff AND the players to come up with stricter
rules for the mud, if you didn't offer your options at that time its
like voting if you don't vote don't complain.

This bad review and his disrespectful thing about not taking the
immortals seriously, would get him banned on most other muds, but as
if this post he has not been banned from The Gathering... yup we're
strict and suck the fun out of it. :P

(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author [Old Player] and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff).

It's sad to see this still going on. I quit the mud a few years ago
because of Staff and I hate to say it, but things weren't getting
better then even though Staff promised left and how things were going
to get better and fixed. Unfortunately, it seems things have not
gotten fix as promised.

However, the Mud is 'theirs' and they will do whatever it is they
wish to do. I've popped on a couple times here and there, but it's
been so long I simply cannot remember the commands to play the game. I
will agree that yes, at first the game looks wonderful but I will to
say Tykune is right... Simply too much complaining over the little
things and small problems do turn into larger ones because of it.

Needless to say, I will not be returning to 'The Gathering' now.

(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author [Tykune] and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff).

It seems I have been frozen for a week due to my 'attitude', even
though that's the same thing I was punished for about 2-3 days ago,
except this time its more extensive. so I am going to go out on a limb
and say I am probably being punished due to the bad review I wrote
on their main recruiting site and simply use that as an excuse. 
If that is the case, it seems the immortal staff has some growing up
to do.