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[RicoSuave]

Jerky/Mole,
I don't mean to add more to your plates, but I have a couple people at work here wondering why we don't have a Wikipedia.org entry. I told them things like, "Oh, we're waiting until we have an official name for the game," or "they use an internal Wiki and have no time for the public one." It's your-all's call on whether you'd like me to start one up, or if you want to just port over a few tidbits from the internal Wiki, or if you just want to ignore it completely.

Just thought I'd throw this out there.

-Rick

[Honis]

Hmm, I did some searching and the Wish game wiki no longer exists on wiki. That wiki entry is how I came across PW. PW was mentioned and listed in related links.

Do articles get deleted if nobody views them?

Jerky mentions our site in his user profile >_>

[Jerky]

Articles go through many review processes on wikipedia. The Wish game article went up for deletion review about a year ago. Their reasoning is that the game and company no longer existed, so it was doing nothing but wasting their space. I rebutted that that is what history is, and there is no other place more suited for history than wikipedia, but they didn't agree. I saved the text and posted it on one of our wikis, since I was the main editor of the Wish page on wikipedia. I used to have the contents in my user profile, because I had to request an undelete from the wikipedia staff in order to save the info.

Let me find the text and I'll post it here.

Rico, your answers are good for now. Firstly, we don't have an official game name yet. Secondly, we don't want publicity yet, since doing so would cause undue hype and take us away from actually working on the game to deal with all the new traffic and questions. It's best to stay under the radar for the time being, and then when we are truly ready to unveil, it will be a memorable and worth it.

[Jerky]

This is the wikipedia page before it was deleted. I asked for a copy so I could preserve it, especially considering I wrote/edited most of it myself.

Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Cancellation
3 Assets
4 Aftermath
5 External links


[edit] History
Wish was a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) under development by Mutable Realms. The developers of the game coined a new name for their game's genre, Ultra Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, or UMMORPG, with the added word Ultra based on their claims that the game would be the first of its kind to support more than 10,000 simultaneous players in a single, seamless world, without any zones or "shards".

Wish was to be set in the fantasy world of Ganedan, with player actions having a lasting impact on the future of the land. One of the main events was to be an unending war between players and non-player characters, to unfold over the course of the game.

What set Wish apart from other games, in an arguably flooded genre, was its open skill system and similarity to Ultima Online. Taken from their website: "Ultima Online was launched to create a wonderful RPG experience in a massive online world where the focus was on the experience and not the mechanics. Since that time, there have been a slew of games, such as EverQuest, that have diverged from these original ideals. As in Ultima Online, Wish creates a world where the focus is on the experience and not the mechanics behind the game. No one plays single-player or pen-and-paper RPGs just to level up, and the same is true in Wish. We have created an interesting and social experience that, in the spirit of Ultima Online, sends players into a world where the gameplay, the world and the story are what is most important."

The Live Story content was also one of the major defining features of the game, which promised to keep players engaged in a never-ending, dynamic storyline.

[edit] Cancellation
As of January 9, 2005, the Wish Project has been cancelled. The reason is described in part of a letter from Mutable Realms, and reads as follows:

"Wish has been shut down because with the data we gathered during the first 10 days of our Beta 2.0 test, even with our best-case projections for player numbers, we could not have reached enough subscribers for Wish to sustain itself."

Many theories have been brought up for the lack of potential subscribers, one of which states that Wish simply didn't have enough publicity to garner more beta sign-ups.

[edit] Assets
Because of the amount of money, time and effort involved in the creation of the game assets for Wish, some of the former Mutable realm team formed Collossal Studios to help sell the assets from Wish. The assets from the game were put on the market, and many have already been sold. Irth Online (now Irth Worlds) is one of the more notable client who have purchased assets. Much of the office equipment and, most notably, the server were also sold ... on eBay.

[edit] Aftermath
The day the cancellation notice was sent, a number of (now former) beta testers bought a new domain called projectwish.com. In the first week they had over 400 former players joined to help in the support of their quest. They started with petitions, to which nothing came of. Originally considering purchasing the assets from Mutable Realms/Colossal Studios, the community decided that that was not possible, and proceeded to organize their development staff (made up solely of volunteers) to begin creation of their own game. They became known as Project Wish.

From their website: "Project Wish is an ongoing project to develop an EMMORPG based on the spirit of the now defunct game Wish. We are in no way affiliated with Mutable Realms, nor are we trying to copy or reverse engineer their game.

This project is following the spirit of what we feel Wish would have brought to the MMORPG genre, had it been finished. That being said, everything in this project is our own creation."


Project Wish has been in various stages of study, planning and development since the beginning of 2005 and is still active to this day (as of June 2007). They are using the Ogre3d graphics engine for the core of their client and ICE (the server technology Wish used)for the server in their quest to make a game similar to Wish. They have already released an alpha version of the world editor (DWARF) they will be using to construct their game world. Read more about them from their website.

[edit] External links
Mutable Realms website - now closed
Collossal Studios - Company created to sell the assets and home of the current website, with all the old information
Wish Vault
WishDB
Project Wish
Retrieved from "http://wiki.projectwish.com/index.php?title=Wish"
Categories: 2005 video games | Massively multiplayer online role-playing games | Cancelled PC games

[RicoSuave]

Roger. Thanks again.

[Ethan]

Yeah, thanks. I had been looking for information for PW but there was not much left when I did my research. I ended up finding about some information. However, here is everything on a page. So that's great. Even though it is not that much detailled, that's still a good overview.