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August 26, 2002 03:35 am ET - research by Ik

Multiplayer Online Game History

Online World Timeline is a huge timeline full of information on the history of online gaming. Its full of weird tidbits like in 1985 GEnie launches at $6 an hour. The average player paid around $156 a month to play it. While some hardcore gamers paid $1000+ a month. And you guys whine about having to pay 15$.

The timeline starts in 1937 with the publising of The Hobbit. And ends with in 2002, who woulda thunk it, with Mythic getting sued by Blacksnow Interactive over Mythic damaging their business by preventing the sale of in-gmae items via online auction sites.

I only have had a quick glace at this so far but it looks like Nexon's Kingdom of the Wind was the frist Graphical MPORPG. Started in 1994 and launched in 1996. With 1 year later Diablo, UO and Lineage getting launched. It also says that Jake Song Frist started working on lineage in 1995, 2 years before he joined up with ncsoft and launched the game.

Anyways this site is one of the best timelines i have seen on Online gaming, and longest too. I recommend you take a glance at it if your bored.

August 26, 2002 03:46 am ET (#1)

dquest
Loyal Fan
31 posts
04-21-02

WOW!! first post!!! :P

Nice TimeLine Web ^^

August 26, 2002 03:48 am ET (#2)

Tran
Loyal Fan
140 posts
06-25-02

in-game* hahah! ^___^;; not in-gmae @_@;;

August 26, 2002 03:49 am ET (#3)

Raistleen
Loyal Fan
60 posts
05-16-02

Man, do lineage need some face washing, no graphics update since 1997?

Maybe the lineage3d thing will be good

(first post? yay :) )
(not first post.... awwwwww U.Y )

August 26, 2002 03:50 am ET (#4)

Tran
Loyal Fan
140 posts
06-25-02

for those of u who reading this don't worry it's a long lsit of timelines so games that was develop -_-;; it's a boring list -_- and yes we like to whine about da 15 bucks a month! >_<!

August 26, 2002 03:50 am ET (#5)

BigPope
LC Admin
622 posts
01-18-02

Hahah the werewolf was updated :)

August 26, 2002 03:53 am ET (#6)

BigPope
LC Admin
622 posts
01-18-02

Tran i dont think you were bored enough.

August 26, 2002 04:00 am ET (#7)

FlyZ
Loyal Fan
791 posts
11-11-01

I think 1 grand is kinda low to be considered hardcore....
That's bout 6 hrs a day for 1 month. Hell I play lin 14 hrs a day lol.. That makes it 2.5 grand a month. BAH o.o.

The prince also got graphics updated, as you can see it's swaying motion that M/F Knights, Princess and Female Elf doesn't have.

August 26, 2002 04:09 am ET (#8)

MegaMan
Loyal Fan
56 posts
06-26-02

its not $15 a mouth its more
i live in canada its 24 bucks here for a mouth

August 26, 2002 04:14 am ET (#9)

dshank
Loyal Fan
34 posts
04-01-02

if $15 is too much then why not at least pay in 4 month increments and get it for more like $11 a month

August 26, 2002 04:47 am ET (#10)

Ramza
Loyal Fan
722 posts
01-11-02

nah i like paying 15 a month jsut cause i am lazy ^^

August 26, 2002 05:24 am ET (#11)

BigPope
LC Admin
622 posts
01-18-02

I use the $11.25 way myself. I know I am not gunna stop playing lineage in 4 months so why should i pay $15 more. I myself see $1000 per month being a little to pricey for something thats only text based. The idea of $6 a hour is just crazy for me. But i guess that was back in 1985 so i bet it cost a hell lot more to run something like that.
-----------------------------------------
I really didnt have internet til i think 93 or 94. I know i had internet on windows 3.1 for atleast a year. and we upgraded to win 95 when it came out. so hard to remember to when i was only 11

August 26, 2002 05:57 am ET (#12)

Ramza
Loyal Fan
722 posts
01-11-02

Most likely hell in 1985 i was only 2 years old o.0 so i really dont know how it was lol but if it was fun adn addicting i guess people wouldnt care forking out that kinda cash

August 26, 2002 05:59 am ET (#13)

L
Loyal Fan
481 posts
01-16-02

well, back then (1985) .... i was only 1 year old -_-;
anywayz, internet service must be REALLY EXPANSIVE, so is a computer
not everyone has computer like we do now -___-;
so those people who are playing online game MUST be really rich
and look at the economies these days -____-; it's horrible
soo......
in conclusion, 15 bucks is enough ^______________^;
by the way, lineage gone through lotta changes =)~ http://vip.cyberexpress.net.hk/~dagger2/lininfo1998/news/what's_old.htm

August 26, 2002 09:32 am ET (#14)

Dust
Loyal Fan
150 posts
01-29-02

talking about history
u know what does the FIRST DRAGON in lineage looks like?
http://vip.cyberexpress.net.hk/~dagger2/lininfo1998/gallery/dragon.gif
YUUUP!! that's the first dragon in lineage!!!!
i can't tell if that's antharas or not...
o.O
and there are MANY MANY elemental scales
not just
red dragon scale
white dragon scale
blue dragon scale and brown
there are also many other colors like black..!!!!!

August 26, 2002 10:40 am ET (#15)

Opethal
Loyal Fan
58 posts
10-22-01

The Shadow of Yserbius in '92 was one of the first graphical ones..i loved that game :)

August 26, 2002 11:05 am ET (#16)

LadyGreenleaf
Loyal Fan
12 posts
07-08-02

cool timeline
*1997 NCSoft releases Lineage
hehe, i remember that, i started playing Lineage when it was in beta testing in Korea december of 1997... those were fun times. got pked alot lol, only mops you could kill back then were orcs, stone golems, slime, human zombies, floating eyes, elders and dwarves. hehe you even become chao if u killed too many dwarves lol. imagine over 500+ players playing and all we had to hunt on was TI and it's cave...talk about over crowded lol... *ah reminiscing* --- this game is sure addicting^^

August 26, 2002 11:12 am ET (#17)

Kuroko
Loyal Fan
109 posts
03-31-02

>.< if any one at LC see's this it would sure be nice to see the item creation guide be brought in next ^_^ completely off topic too!

August 26, 2002 12:02 pm ET (#18)

FlyZ
Loyal Fan
791 posts
11-11-01

lol I too remember the old days. I remember the first day I played, wandering into ti dungeon and right when I stepped down, I got pked lol.

Dust: That looks like a first gen valak o.o

August 26, 2002 02:12 pm ET (#19)

speedlab
Loyal Fan
124 posts
11-27-01

I use to pay way more then $15 a month, back when I dialed-up to MUD's, and you'd have to go to your local computer store and buy prepaid blocks of time in $10, $20 & $50 denominations ;) I was going to the computer store at least 2-3 times a month ;)

August 26, 2002 02:15 pm ET (#20)

Luffarmasken
Loyal Fan
97 posts
05-02-02

Dust, that dragon looks alot like Valakas if u think about it :)

August 26, 2002 02:31 pm ET (#21)

ruben
Loyal Fan
355 posts
10-07-01

there are 60 files in the korean test server ~_~ more news plzzzzzz T_T
they are mostly text files named gereng, gunter and some others (are the quests back?)

August 26, 2002 02:54 pm ET (#22)

FlyZ
Loyal Fan
791 posts
11-11-01

Maybe they somehow made it 2 quests? o.o

August 26, 2002 04:07 pm ET (#23)

Fangar
LC Reporter
125 posts
06-05-02

Speedlab - Your post made me remember some of the PHONE bills I had when playing MUDs during breaks from college.

I remember getting a $400 phone bill because my school dialup was a slightly toll number (that I didn't realize)... Man was I pissed when I got the bill.

Although it was funny/quite sad to see
New Brunswick, NJ..........400 minutes
New Brunswick, NJ..........185 minutes
New Brunswick, NJ..........641 minutes
New Brunswick, NJ..........1 minutes (because there always was a D/C)
etc.

Thank god for unlimited calling plans or else I would have gone broke.. =)

And damn you people saying that you were 1 or 2 in '85... Kids... At least I had the decency to be 9... ^^

August 26, 2002 05:11 pm ET (#24)

Ramada
Loyal Fan
89 posts
03-18-02

Fascinating reading....9 in 85...try 26....lol oh well, I was in on the origional D and D...and had a blast playing on the old bbs's...hell, ran one on my old C64 meself...thought it was quite the system, with 3 SFD-1001 drives and 3 1541 drives...btw..the SFD's were 1 meg drives and the 1541's were 170k...lol

Tis truly amazing the changes in such a short time!

Good job on this one Amer...had to do a total reinstall of the game..from the PREVIOUS episode, because nci in their infinite wisdom chose not to send me the latest disc, even though I signed up for ti...try downloading 10k+ files all at once..mind you, tis 4.5 hours later, and I still have 3k in files to go..lmao

August 26, 2002 05:44 pm ET (#25)

speedlab
Loyal Fan
124 posts
11-27-01

thankfully the muds I dialed up to were local calls ;) thank god for the 14.4k modem!! that was such an advantage over the people who used 2400 baud :)

August 26, 2002 07:52 pm ET (#26)

Jaire
Loyal Fan
74 posts
02-12-02

Ah yes.... the text base mud. That and the ACSII DnD. Those were the days. This was when to use the modem, I dial the phone and put it into a receiver cradle and whistling was a similar enough frequency you could screw it up and d/c. And I was 11 in '85.

August 27, 2002 01:36 am ET (#27)

Dust
Loyal Fan
150 posts
01-29-02

yeah that does look like valakas!
but!!! I STILL THINK it's suppose to be antharas!!!!
eh who knows..

August 28, 2002 02:51 am ET (#28)

ailsa
Loyal Fan
118 posts
06-30-02

1000+$ 0.0 thats alot

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