MMORPG HISTORY: [I beta-tested for NWN in 1989+1990. I thought I was “too old” to play video games at 17/18 yrs old but beta-testing was “like a job”, so thereby it was ok. Little did I know all the people that said “Video Games Are Just4Kids” would turn out to be WRONG 
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via mmos . com
“Neverwinter Nights was developed by AOL, which at the time was known as Quantum Computer Services. Neverwinter Nights was the first successful MMORPG to display graphics and helped to pioneer the genre. The game is based on the Dungeons and Dragons franchise and is seen by many as the first “actual” MMORPG, with actual being in quotes because it featured the kind of gameplay you’d expect in an MMORPG. Habitat pre-dated Neverwinter Nights by 5 years, but was largely a virtual world rather than a traditional MMORPG. The game ran on Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system and launched with maximum server capacity of 50 players, but grew to 500 by 1995. Playing Neverwinter Nights wasn’t cheap, it was $6 per hour to play when the game first launched, as servers and internet bandwidth was super pricy in 1991. The game ran from 1991 to 1997 and simply couldn’t compete with up and coming titles.”
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It ran on “PC-Link” btw – which NEVER gets mention. It ran under Deskmate by Tandy (Radio Shack) which *also* never gets mentioned. There _was_ no “AOL for PC” until 1993 and by 1993, I’d long since stopped working with the game. I did my beta testing and when the game was released in 1990/91, I stopped because THEN I’d be playing and not beta-testing anymore. Yeah, I took the idea of “it’s work, not play” seriously 
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Other mistakes of the article: it didn’t use “internet bandwidth” because *it didn’t run on the internet”. QCS/PC-Link/AOL was a _private_ network of computers *they* owned that connected by the telephone system.
AOL did not get a gateway to the internet until 1993 (just a usenet gateway) and didn’t have full web access to the internet until 1995.
Oh well… I don’t feel like correcting the article writer. Complaining here is enough
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“Omer Altay
Been playing MMOs since I first got my hands on Ultima Online when I was 12 years old. Played so many games from Star Wars Galaxies to MapleStory to DAoC to World of Warcraft. Long time League of Legends player too! I’m also Known as “ReMo” and “Remotay””
February 28, 2015
His author page shows him an active writer still:
https://mmos.com/author/remotay
ok that’s as far as I’ll stalk.
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