Business Model
Medievia is owned and operated by Medievia.com, Inc., which was registered as a corporation on 19 January 2000. The corporation derives income from Medievia by effectively selling players special donation items for use with game characters. The normal fee may be waived for players creating content for the game, for example by building zones or writing articles for the in-game newspaper. There are also annual sales, during which the cost of these donation items is reduced.
The donation items provide advantages to characters that are not attainable with equipment that is freely available. The major items are outlined below, with their costs in brackets, and their closest free alternatives where available. To help the reader to appreciate these numbers in context, it should be noted that mature player characters usually have between 500 and 1400 health, and between 40 and 100 damage roll.
There has been controversy over whether recent versions of Medievia continue to be derivatives of DikuMUD, and what effect this has on the legality of encouraging players to effectively purchase in-game equipment from the proprietors.
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