>I think it's definitely a culture shift for MUDing - I
>remember the days where exploration and discovery was what
>made it magical - but that magic's more or less gone after
>playing 2 MUDs for >10,000 hours each (yikes) and WoW from
>vanilla through whatever that Arthas expansion was.
>
>Certainly for a veteran player a spoiler for an environment
>that they have been immersed in for a long time is no longer a
>spoiler, though. But for someone new to the game, I would
>think unspoiled exploration must still be possible.

I have some other thoughts, especially about the "culture" shift, but want to make sure they are properly researched, but on this particular point... spoiler tags exist on the internet for a reason. Nothing forces you to spoil something for yourself just because the information is available. I mean the dude just spoiled The Usual Suspects for himself to talk about it in the video... It isn't because the "spoiler" information wasn't out there to be found, he just had made some point of not having sought it out before...