History of Archmage
General History
1997-1999 The innocence - First servers (www.archmage.com) - Growth of servers - Introduction of banners and clicking adds to get 'Luck' in the game - 'Game of the Month', a big hit. - Many players communicating using ICQ.
2000-2001 The glory days - Moving of game URL (www.magewar.com), portal update. - Growth of multimaging, admins handing magical compasses to those reporting cheating - Thread of sewing 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 to open.
2001-2003 The decay - 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 trying to make some servers Pay-2-Play - Announcement of MARI focusing on a graphic online roleplaying game. - MARI going bankrupt and going web-dead totally. - MARI forums going web-dead.
- Dawn of ProjectX (what became The Reincarnation) and some other Archmage inspired webgames.
