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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@verant.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:59:09 -0800
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu
> [mailto:mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> Auli
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:08 AM
> To: mud-dev@kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] A Brief History of Commercial MUDs
>
> Sierra's The Realm was also first realeased in late 1996. It
> probably reached peak popularity around January of 1998 with an
> estimated 25,000 subscribers. The subscription model was a flat
> yearly rate of $49.95. I think it is generally overlooked because
> it never propagated to more than one server (probably because of the
> subscription model). It has since been purchased by the UK company
> Codemasters and is still running. With the demise of Meridian 59
> that probably makes it the longest runnng commercial MMORPG to date
> (assuming a single server doesn't disqaulify it from the term
> massively, it did have peak player useage of around 3000
> simultaneously). If anyone can find Steve Nichols he may be able to
> correct me somewhat, I am going on my recollections as a player and,
> later, an admin.
Steve is at Codemasters, after sojourning around for a little bit
(such as onto the doomed Middle Earth Online project). Of the others
he worked with--Janus Anderson is at Westwood as lead designer on
Earth and Beyond (an interesting massively multiplayer game that I
don't think has been discussed here yet) and Daniel James, well, I saw
him this morning here at GDC. :)
-Raph
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