History of Archmage

General History

Mirror copy of archmage page on wikipedia

The innocence 1997-1999

• First servers (www.archmage.com)
• Growth of servers
• Introduction of banners and clicking ads to get 'Luck' in the game
• 'Game of the Month', a big hit.
• Many players communicating using ICQ.

The glory 2000-2001

• Moving of game URL (www.magewar.com), portal update.
• Growth of multimaging, admins handing magical compasses to those reporting cheating
• Threat of lawsuits for violating copyrights. Change of mage speciality names and some unit names.
• Introduction of a beta server
• Growth of custom archmage interfaces
• Growth of scripting, movement-tracking and spellbots - Archmage servers too open: security issues.
• Many players communicate on IRC.

The Fall 2001-2003

• Growth of bug-exploits, e.g. negative power bug, unlimitted devils bug, find armacaster, unlimitted wishing bug etc. etc. etc.
• Announcement of MARI focusing on ArchSpace
• Introduction of beta units on all servers
• Different language servers
• Announcements of MARI trying to make some servers Pay-2-Play
• Announcement of MARI focusing on a graphic online roleplaying game.
• MARI going bankrupt and game going web dead.
• MARI portal and forums going web dead.
• Dawn of ProjectX (what became The Reincarnation) and some other Archmage inspired webgames.

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Server Histories

• Ager Guild History
• Ager Non-Guild History
• Apprentice History
• Beta History
• Blitz Non-Guild History
• Blitz Guild History
• Blitz Solo History
• Server Non-Guild Histoy
• Server Guild Histoy
• Spanish Guild Histoy