11/19/2023 0 Comments Utopia game time![]() This is NOT Utopia.Įach game seasons was named an Age, which lasted on the order of 3-4 months. and then think of how simplistic they really are, most of them are just based off some sort of endless reward mechanism a sort of Skinner box model. ![]() Interestingly enough, it was recently (in 2017) bought by a new company that has hopes of reviving the game. ![]() At it's peak, Utopia had around 100,000 active players in it's world, however now it stands at around 3000. Launched in January 1999 by a university student (Mehul Patel) under the umbrella of the company Solaria Games, Utopia was an evolution from the BBS and MUD games that were the rage of the online communities at the time. seeing as it was pretty much numbers and text based, with nothing to interest the short attention span of today's "gamers"! It was a game that I played waaay back in the '90s and I was expecting that it had died a long time ago. Utopia was a hardcore strategy game that incorporated a bit of RPG, real-life clanning and diplomacy and some serious number crunching and spread-sheeting. I remember fondly this game called Utopia which I would regularly log in to whilst passing a computer lab or whilst checking my email (this was before the days of easy mobile internet access.). with nerdy interests (waaaayyyyy before it got cool.) like computer games and online multiplayer gaming. In my university days (and still now.), I was a serious hard core nerd. This is my second entry for the "Gaming in the '90s contest being run by (judges being and the first being for the eternal masterpiece X-Com.
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