Re: RE: UKNM: online gaming stats?

[Richard Longhurst]

From: "Richard Bailey" <

RBaileyGodado [dot] com

>


> You must have missed it.  Microsoft stepped in with Turbine and released

> Asheron's Call.  Full 3D 500 square miles  of MMPG (Massive multi player

> game).  There are 8000 players+ each day, most play more than 40 hours a

> month.  With Microsoft redefining the aspect of on line gaming with

dynamic

> community quests entire superpowers to fight and huge storylines to follow

> in each town.


Before Asheron's Call came the better-looking EverQuest which Sony had a

hand in.

"88,387 total players online now" says the Web site at the moment -- makes

Asheron's 8,000 (is that figure right?) look a bit poor.

 http://www.station.sony.com/everquest/


> Small point Ultima Online ,all current versions, are 2D it uses the old

game

> ultima Underworld's 2D scrolling graphics engine.  Ultima Online 2 (at

least

> a year away) will be 3D using the Ultima 8 engine.

>

> Richard Bailey

>

RBaileygodado [dot] com <RBaileygodado [dot] com (mailto:RBaileygodado [dot] com)>

Even smaller point. Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss was a true 3D

first-person role-playing game released in 1992 -- it didn't have a 2D

scrolling

graphics engine, it had a proper 3D one.


Ultima Online has nothing to do with Underworld, but it does have something

to

with the Ultima Series, which reached Ultima IX: Ascension late last year.

Ultima

Online 2 will not use the Ultima 8 engine, nor will it use the Ultima IX

engine,

it will have a new engine all of its own. At least that's what a spokesman

for

Origin told The Games Domain. http://www.gamesdomain.com/news/1622.html


Not sure how we get back to marketing from here, but I didn't want UKNM

readers to

get the wrong info about these all-important game engines.


Richard

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