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Today’s Confusing MMO News Brought To You By Horizons


….which has apparently been bought by… um… someone in Montana.

Yeah. I got nothin’. Sorry. However, I am encouraged by this friendly picture from the new owner’s website:

In other Horizons news, David Allen might hire you, if you’re supercore enough.

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  1. #1 by Stormwaltz on July 21st, 2006

    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

  2. #2 by Relmstein on July 21st, 2006

    Woody at GU comics has a strip up about this. I can’t help but wonder at the light bulb and the very bad web design.

  3. #3 by slog on July 21st, 2006

    Heh. Looking at the website

  4. #4 by slog on July 21st, 2006

    redoing my comment

    meta name=”GENERATOR” content=”Microsoft FrontPage 4.0″
    meta name=”ProgId” content=”FrontPage.Editor.Document”

  5. #5 by Big Gulp on July 21st, 2006

    Why the prolific use of quotation marks? They are a “smoke-free environment”?

    Is that anything like how I’m “a lion tamer”?

  6. #6 by Elistor on July 21st, 2006

    First saw the news on some MMO news site late last night(early this morning, sleep is for the weak!) and my first thought was “again?” and my second thought was “they still have servers?”

    And i Just checked the website. *twitch* “Hot Game Action and Game Information Sites from E I “

  7. #7 by ubvman on July 22nd, 2006

    From the EI Interactive press release:
    Horizons has gone through a genesis, emerging today as a world class MMORPG providing a very stable and intrinsically interactive persistent universe for play.

    How the heck do an established game go through a genesis?

    gen\’c2\’b7e\’c2\’b7sis (j\’c4\bullet n’\'c4\–s\’c4\-s) pronunciation
    n., pl. -ses (-s\’c4\ldblquote z’).

    1. The coming into being of something; the origin. See synonyms at beginning.
    2. Genesis (Abbr. Gen. or Gn) A book of the Bible.

  8. #8 by Apache on July 22nd, 2006

    don’t doubt the supercore amazingness, dude

  9. #9 by Abalieno on July 22nd, 2006

    My god, die already.

  10. #10 by Axecleaver on July 22nd, 2006

    I wonder what the sale price was.

    Horizons has a long and melodramatic history. It’s not fair to criticize David Allen for the abomination that was Horizons. His heart was in the right place. David Bowman did far more to mangle the baby in the birth canal and produce what came out than DA did. I’d like to see QOL actually come out some day.

    Something I’ve always been curious about, maybe you game people can shed some light on this… is Bowman’s career in games pretty much over after Horizons? He behaved pretty badly.

  11. #11 by Joey Connelly on July 22nd, 2006

    Horizons has gone through a genesis, emerging today as a world class MMORPG providing a very stable and intrinsically interactive persistent universe for play.

    That’s gold, Jerry. GOLD!

  12. #12 by Jurrasic on July 22nd, 2006

    Wouldn’t that be a ReGenesis?

    Cool teevee show btw, look it up. :)

  13. #13 by Elistor on July 22nd, 2006

    Well they changed the website a bit…. no more psychedelic lightbulb. I’m not sure exactly WHAT it’s supposed to be pointing at me now but hey it’s not psychedelic.

  14. #14 by Kithias on July 22nd, 2006

    Abalieno says on July 22nd, 2006 at 7:18 am:

    Winner.

  15. #15 by Kithias on July 22nd, 2006

    I’m giving up on Scotts crazy ass XHTML coding. Damn.

    Anyway, yeah, “My god, die already.” is the thrumming response to this thread. Thrumming with truth, that is.

  16. #16 by damijin on July 22nd, 2006

    This news will change the industry as we know it today. I’m certain of it.

  17. #17 by SM Mullins on July 22nd, 2006

    The lightbulb is still there, now he’s in a spaceship.

  18. #18 by Boanerges on July 22nd, 2006

    Embrace the lightbulb. Taste the lightbulb.

    In other news, the existence of another supercore team has apparently caused a space-time rift to open explaining all sorts of annihical mayhem such as wars breaking out, famine plaguing America, Valve announcing a real launch date for Team Fortress 2 and EA gutting buying Mythic. The return of Clhuthu is expected relatively soon so serve his Russian overlords.

  19. #19 by Goemagog on July 23rd, 2006

    as long as there will be fetapults!

    Goe, not at all serious.

  20. #20 by Oz on July 24th, 2006

    Horizons has gone through a genesis, emerging today as a world class MMORPG providing a very stable and intrinsically interactive persistent universe for play.

    Gotta love those automatic online business-speak translators.

    Wait, this was a real quote? Danger Will Robinson, Danger!

  21. #21 by Loote on October 27th, 2006

    The ORIGINAL Horizons would have been one of the coolest MMORPG’s ever. It had what, 13 races or so whith playable dragons, a huge world, race/faction wars, ect. It got to be too much to put together though. Classic case of writing a check you cant cash. The current horizons is an abomination of the original.

  22. #22 by aaron on November 1st, 2006

    Demise was fun for a wizardry fan. Written in VB, used some god awful database structure to hold every single piece of game data including saves. But fun..

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