Question for everyone: why play a MUD? Why did you guys choose a text-based multiplayer over, say, WoW? Simplicity? Lack of graphics? Nostalgia? I've heard many answers to this question from many different sources (the most interesting answers coming from reddit) and I'd like to know the general consensus from people who are still hardcore MUD addicts.

Written by my hand on the 7th of Springflower, in the year 1228.