Did latency just drop sharply while I was away?
Nor does the idea of a digital society.
“And that is one of them, so I’m glad you remember.
But we also did a Starship Troopers game.
We did an Independence Day game.
We did Godzilla.”
Aliens Online is not, in practice, anything like what we now call an MMO.
“It had voice chat, which in 1998 was crazy,” Firor recalled.
Which again, 1998 right?
That’s crazy technology."
“So it’s very authentic when you go in.”
This whole virtual life thing, it was just considered magic.
It’s like wait, can we see other people?
No, you don’t see the people, you see their avatars, right?
You know, 2400 baud modems, maybe 56.6k, right?"
But absolutely, games likeElder Scrolls Online- we could see that from 1996.
Maybe not at that graphical fidelity, but certainly the technology."
you’re able to definitely draw a path between all of those games."
“Because that’s what it took.”
“And the content expertise and expectations are so much higher, using much bigger teams.”
While writing this piece I discovered thatthere is or was another Aliens MMO or “MMO-like” in development.
