Achaea Switches To Anarchaea After HD Crash

Posted by simoniker on Monday March 8, 2004 @04:03PM from the looting-panic-death dept.

Daki writes "Achaea, the flagship text-based MUD of Iron Realms Entertainment, suffered 'a massive hardware failure', and all of the current player and world data was damaged early last Friday morning PST. After sending the damaged harddrive to a data recovery firm in Toronto, it seems as if the world of Achaea will once again be up and running by Tuesday morning at the earliest. In the interim, they decided to roll back to a week-old copy, but the info gained on this backup version will be wiped when the recovered data is loaded. This has caused the birth of a world dubbed 'Anarchaea', where rules have no meaning, the gods fry the players at request, and players are killed by homicidal butterflies and socks. During Anarchaea, the text-based MUD even reclaimed the number one spot on Top Muds, which is quite a feat."

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Re:Lets try this again by Synic · 2004-03-08 19:15 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Anyone who used to play MUDs either got bored, grew older and out out them, lost the time to jobs and other obligations, or moved on to graphical games like 3D MMORPGs. The only people who still play are usually just bored people making their own MUDs still, and the friends they pester into playtesting them.

Back in the day I used to play on Sojourn (a decent Forgotten Realms world MUD), and also tried to play on a Werewolf MUSH with very little success.