March 27, 2003--Atari today announced that it will publish Artifact Entertainment's "Horizons," one of the most closely-followed and highly-anticipated massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) in years.
http://www.artifact-entertainment.com
With Atari's backing this very well may be the next giant leap in MMORPG's.
Atari is publishing Horizons
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Atari is publishing Horizons
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yeah...
They uhm seriously fucked it over from what it was going to be...But it seems like that's an MMORPG Tradition dating back from UO. 
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The original Horizons was far too ambitious.
They took way too much feedback from the community and incorporated it into their game design.
They had made all sorts of promises and had nothing to show for it except 'concept artwork', sound clips and a few 3d models... hell, they didn't even have a game engine.
It was classic vaporware.. along the lines of Derek Smart's 'work of art'.
When they actually started fleshing the game out, they came to realise they would have to cut about 90% of the features they promised if they wanted to get the game out in the next decade. So they slowly started announcing features that would not make it into the game at release (underwater races, angels, etc) the community went ballastic.
Atrifact essentially closed up shop (publicly) and worked internally on the infrastructure of the current Horizons.
Funny, I'm more interested now in Horizons then I was a few years ago.
The dev team is much more responsible and realistic and there's actually a chance in my lifetime that this game might be released. Sadly, for Articaft, the rabid community they had a few years ago don't feel the same way...
Did any of you guys ever read the Horizons forums a few years back?
The retards that posted there make the fanboys on the SWG forums look tame.
They took way too much feedback from the community and incorporated it into their game design.
They had made all sorts of promises and had nothing to show for it except 'concept artwork', sound clips and a few 3d models... hell, they didn't even have a game engine.
It was classic vaporware.. along the lines of Derek Smart's 'work of art'.
When they actually started fleshing the game out, they came to realise they would have to cut about 90% of the features they promised if they wanted to get the game out in the next decade. So they slowly started announcing features that would not make it into the game at release (underwater races, angels, etc) the community went ballastic.
Atrifact essentially closed up shop (publicly) and worked internally on the infrastructure of the current Horizons.
Funny, I'm more interested now in Horizons then I was a few years ago.
The dev team is much more responsible and realistic and there's actually a chance in my lifetime that this game might be released. Sadly, for Articaft, the rabid community they had a few years ago don't feel the same way...
Did any of you guys ever read the Horizons forums a few years back?
The retards that posted there make the fanboys on the SWG forums look tame.
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