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Archived News for January 24, 2001



The 4th Coming | No More, NT4! January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Caught this on the Vircom official website:

As of version 1.20c, we are officially discontinuing our support of Windows NT4. Our decision to stop supporting NT4 was not made to avoid resolving some issues in T4C. It follows Microsoft's own decision to stop supporting NT4 as a viable gaming platform. This decision doesn't mean T4C will suddenly stop working on NT4 as of today, nor does it imply that T4C will get new client-side features. Most likely, it will still be supported informally until we have no choice but to stop. The current sound problem (now resolved with v1.20c) is not linked to our decision to stop supporting NT 4.



Hostile Space | Contest in Progress January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Enter the free Beta test for HS today, and you can start making entries to their Star System and Quest contest. Prizes are in-game, but are pretty generous. Here are the details:

1st Prize: Pulse Phaser (Comple



RuneScape | Big Plans for a Little Game January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
RuneScape is a 3D Java MM title that resembles AC (et al.) in environment. Here's a sample from their latest newsletter:

We are of course working on many more improvements to add to the game to make it even better. We have nearly finished work on the bank which will hopefully be added to Varrock city tommorow. The bank is a safe place to store your money, such that even if you die it can't be lost. After that the magic system is due for a big overhaul with lots of new spells being added, plus we'll be adding some entirely new professions such as crafting and fishing to add even more variety to the game. The next planned quest is 'The vampire slayer quest' in which you must work out how to slay the evil vampire currently sleeping in Draynor Manor.



Redmoon | Very Suggestable January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
The folks over at Redmoon want your input:

While we make new Bugs & Suggestions Board. You can send us bugs and suggestions over e-mail.

Type Bugs or Suggestiosns report in the Subject. and send it to : redmoon-online@joycity.com



Eve Online | New Background Information January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
With tongue firmly placed in cheek, Alain E. Topher has just written a piece on Jump Technology in the context of Eve Online.


Arianne | New Development Report January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
A new Development Report has been posted to the Arianne home page. If you remember, Arianne is an Open Source MM title that looks very promising.


Ultima WO: Origin | New Screenshot! January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Over on Origin Stratics, a new screenshot has been posted for UO2:
You can find all of their exclusive screen shots in their Screenshot Gallery


EverQuest | Dream Job January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
This is a real job posting. Really:

*QA Openings*

Our Quality Assurance department is looking for some AVID EQ gamers to join us as testers at the San Diego branch. If you would like more information please visit www.verant.com or mail your resume to resume@station.sony.com with QA Openings as the Subject.

Applicants should include their time playing EverQuest, and their number of characters and their respective classes and levels as part of their resume.

I would add to that: Applicants must include specific RL skill levels in Alcoholic Beverage/Carbo-Loading, Habitual Lack of Concentration on Anything not Game Related, and the Desire to Acquire Massive Amounts of Power For No Good Reason.



Editorial | From the Internet Springs Life Eternal January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
From all places, Salon.Com has a new piece up on internet MM dinosaurs (namely, MU*) that still have life today. If you ever wondered why people still play these things, when they could be off playing something like AC or EQ, give the article a read, and I'm sure you'll come to agree with the author.


Editorial | Biting the Hand January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
A great new article is up over on Happy Puppy (I didn't even know they had articles...thanks AO Basher). It provides a fantastic solution to the lowering of the bar syndrome that all MM titles seem to be suffering (that kewl d00d thingy I keep talking about): Charge more money fo rthe game.

Both for its historical background, as well as its opinions on the state of the market today, this article is a very good read.


Editorial | Holy Crap, what happened? January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
You may have noticed that this site has been open since 1/8/01, and yet we're missing all the news items that happened from that point up through the 18th. You may have also noticed a signifigant lack of updates in the past couple of days.

What can I say? I lost 30GB to Hard Drive Heaven on Monday, and I've been left here in Hell.

Things appear to be back on track now, and Meat and I have been updating like madmen all afternoon. Hopefully, we can return to the cutting edge (hah!) of MM news in the next couple of days.

I'm even planning on making updates on the weekend... So there, you nay-sayers.


EverQuest | Plane of Mischief January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Triton of Povar finally made it to the Plane of Mischief, a new and as of yet, unexplored Zone in Everquest. The screenshots he managed to get are pretty damn odd.


Asheron's Call | Wintersebb Immigration! January 24, 2001
By: Meatball  
Heh...Kolthar clicked this pick of what happened on the AC servers when the new Wintersebb Server went up last night.

Guess folks were hoping to become the first person to hit level 2!



Asheron's Call | TimeWarp Crashing HotFix. January 24, 2001
By: Meatball  
Apparantly some silly folks figured out a way to crash the AC servers. Not soon afterward the AC team came up with a HotFix. Too bad they couldn't come up with good content/quests that fast, huh? January 23, 2001

We wanted to thoroughly expla


ShadowBane | Interactive Maps and Screenshots January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
The good folks over at Shadowbane have really given us a new eyeful. If you check out their home page, you'll find 3 new Interactive Maps, as well as a bunch of new screenshots.


PlanetSide | Interview with Danny Han January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Danny Han, Community Relations Manager for the Planetside team, sat down with an interview with Planetside Epicenter. Here's a sample of the transcript:

What excites you most about PlanetSide (that you are allowed to mention ;) )?:
The PvP aspect, actually. The game's scale, with PvP, is unprecedented.

You can see the rest of the interview here.



Archaean | New Producers Babble. January 24, 2001
By: Meatball  
A new Producers Corner has been written by Niklas. Hear about temptations, money and sleezy women! Alright, maybe not the women part, but check out what has been going on with Arcane Developments economy during the development anyway here.


PlanetSide | Development Diary One January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
VDE has a new feature up, the Planetside Development Diary. The first installment features information from Danny Han, Community relations manager, plus some new screenshots. You can check out this first installment here.


Star Wars Galaxies | Raph at it Again January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Raph has been answering actual user questions again, spawing an entire dicussion based around PvP, Banking, and a number of other topics.


Anarchy Online | Beta Players Picked... January 24, 2001
By: Meatball  
It seems that Mowgli dropped into the AO chat on Monday and brought the following message:

I can confirm that. We have picked the people for beta III now. I guess its not a bomb that we will not say anything about who is on the list yet. Found this over at AOForge.



Reviews | DAoC January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Games Domain just reviewed The Dark Age of Camelot.


Neocron | Interview Joerg Schwiezer January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Joerg is the founder of Reakktor, the developer of Neocron. Here's a sample of what he had to say to RPG Planet:

There will be a very professional dedicated developer team working on Neocron after initial game has been released. We will try to let the world of Neocron live and evolve like our fans expect it. We will also listen closely to what the fans think about the game and will continue to improve.

You know that a game is never done. That is even more true for an MMORPG.

You can catch the rest of the interview here.



Project Entropia | Interview Patric Sundstrom January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Patric is the Marketing Manager for MindArk, the developer of Entropia, and upcoming MMORPG. Here's a sample of the interview:

Yes this is completely true, Project Entropia will be totally free, both the software



Jumpgate | New Image Gallery January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Action Vault recently posted a series of images from the long awaited MM title, Jumpgate. Here's a sample:


Sovereign | Clint Worley Interviewed January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
Clint Worley, producer for Verant's Soverein, a MM-RTS title, answered some questions in a short interview with Game Spy Daily. Here's a sample:

We wanted to introduce the game with a bang to let other companies in the industry know that Verant/Sony Online Entertainment is sticking to its charter with a new title. The main surprise wasn’t that we were doing another Massively Multiplayer game, or that it was persistent, it was that the game was the first Real Time Strategy game to feature those elements. The team is hard at work on the project and to be totally honest games of this size take longer to develop, test, and release due to the immense depth that they offer. Bare with us while we make history.

Always with the grandiose statements, these developers...



Editorial | Cute Guide Up January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
The guys over at AO.mmorpg.net have posted a guide related to common Acronyms used in MMORPGs. You can check it out here..


Anarchy Online | Beta Testers Picked January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
According to Snuffle, over on AO Forge, all of the Beta Testers for Beta III of AO have been picked. He got his information from Mowgli, who dropped the gem in an AO Chat Room Monday night.


Asheron's Call | New Server January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
If you're an Asheron's player, you'll be happy to know that the guys at the Zone have Opened a New Server. This one's called Wintersebb, not that the name really has anything to do with ...well, anything. Hopefully, this will knock down some of the congestion on all the other servers.


Asheron's Call | Major Bug Squashed January 24, 2001
By: Mystery  
The guys over at Turbine must be breatihing a little easier today, as their servers have stopped crashing. Apparently, they were crashing because players wanted them to. By exploiting this bug, you could effectively time-warp back, and duplicate items in your inventory. According to the developers:

The players who were discovered repeatedly abusing this bug to bring down the servers are being removed from the game. While we dislike taking this type of action, we feel it is important that other players know that it is unacceptable to disrupt another player's game in such a fashion.

Ouch.



Links Added for January 24, 2001:

Link Added: Fan Site : Anarchy Online : AO Forge
Link Added: Fan Site : PlanetSide : Planetside Epicenter
Link Added: News : Horizons : Horizons MMORPG.Net
Link Added: Fan Site : Adellion : Adellion World
Link Added: Official : Hostile Space : InterAdventure's Hostile Space
Link Added: News : The Dark Age of Camelot : Camelot MMORPG.Net
Link Added: News : Anarchy Online : AO MMORPG.Net
Link Added: News : Ultima Online | Ultima WO: Origin : Origin Stratics
Link Added: Fan Club, Clan : EverQuest : Triton of Povar