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From: shren <shren@io.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 05:55:35 -0500 (CDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Matt Mihaly wrote:
> Square just released Final Fantasy XI in Japan for the PS2 (US
> release is next year sometime), and blundered it in a laughably
> incompetent release. WebMoney, who is handling the payment and
> monetary services for the project wasn't able to handle the
> traffic, and the Playonline servers began crashing at about 2 am
> on the 17th (released on the 16th). Further, people who tried to
> get support via either web or telephone were met with an inability
> to reach anyone. Then, just to make sure that no one was going to
> be happy, Webmoney went ahead and accidentally charged quite a few
> registrants multiple times for a single account.
Do you know if they brought anybody (individuals or partners)
on-board with design experience in multiplayer online games or
networking?
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