Talk:History of Archmage
Mari didn't open up servers for Archmage till summer of 1998. They had originally planned to open servers in March of 1998, but this did not occur. I still have boxes of Archmage/Archspace merchandise, including a mistaken run of Archmage stickers which listed March 1998 as the release date...and another batch of stickers showing a November release date.
I can provide scans of both. In addition, I'm still in close contact with Bead and Birdman. Matthew "Bead" Machtan started with Mari as the Supervisor of Customer Services and was eventually promoted to the position of Director of North American Marketing before he left the company.