I m not sure The Realm will ever allow for this sort of player interactivity. Also, MUDs are much more complex, mainly because of the ease of adding new features. For a MUD, it takes little effort at all to create a new race like the giant, but on The Realm, it requires a whole new set of artwork. The folks at The Realm have already stated they are unwilling to add new races because of this lack of flexibility in the system. The Realm will have problems allowing this.
MUDs are also more user-friendly.
The Realm 's software is more than 40MB expanded, which takes up a considerable amount of space. This is exclusionary to a very high percentage of computer users, as many do not have Pentiums with at least 16MB of RAM running Windows95. The Realm and other new graphical games also suffer from variety. If you don t like The Realm , there s no close substitute for it. MUDs, on the other hand, number in the hundreds.