Personally, I saw nothing revolutionary about it. You could get the same effect with a say verb, an out-of-character verb, and an emote verb. That's pretty much all it was. At least BTG has character sheets, and TextMUD...well, is simple.
Me too, people were acting like it was a new concept that they've never had before.
Me too, people were acting like it was a new concept that they've never had before.