[MUD-Dev] Lineage and Garriott

[Dragoness]

On 5/19/01 at 7:12 AM Matt Mihaly wrote:

> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,43903,00.html
 
> Maybe now people will stop pretending like the only big graphical
> MUDs out there are UO, EQ, and AC.

Crappy journalism at its finest.

"In the future, all of Destination Games' releases will be online games=
 only, no more single-player products."

-which implies that there were single-player products that they released.

"Garriott left Origin Systems, the game he and Robert formed back in 1983,=
 earlier this year, in an attempt to find a new challenge."

-Origin Systems is a company, not a game.

""In Ultima Online fiction, Lord British has already left Britannia (the=
 fictional land he ruled in Garriott's games), so this is a great=
 opportunity for him to go and visit new worlds," he joked."

-He made a statement, not a joke. It was a statement that Lord British=
 would continue to exist in the future. He explained that in the UO2=
 fiction that already exists, Lord British's exit from the world was=
 mentioned and that he would be leaving Britannia for other worlds.  The=
 Lineage artists are already working on artwork to add Lord British to=
 Lineage, and so its a natural segue for LB to go from Britannia to the=
 world of Lineage.

"The Lineage client will be available in a few weeks from Destination=
 Games, which will also provide support for U.S. players."

-The Lineage client has been available since May 1, 2001.  The=
 'Americanized' version won't be available until sometime in the second=
 half of 2001, so I'm not sure which client the writer is referring to.

-Additionally, Starr Long's name was misspelled.

Tina

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