Stupid.
So incredibly stupid.
A long time ago - had to be at least 2 years, if not longer - I found out about a game in development called Wish. Ok, it's going to be this big dynamic online world, yeah sure, I'll sign up for the newsletter and maybe try out the beta when it comes along.
Time passes. Things happen. I graduate from college, have my appendix out, and discover the Smiths (not necessarily in that order).
About a year ago, I got an e-mail inviting me to join the Wish beta. I had forgotten all about the game at this point. Since I was on dial-up at the time, I decided not to even try downloading the beta client, but I held on to the e-mail in case I changed my mind.
Some more time passes. I quit my job and moved to Nashville to go back to school. In comes the cable modem, and one day in a fit of boredom I try to download the beta. Denied! I figured that might happen, since this was 8 months after beta had started. So I went on my merry way.
Then, while I'm home for Christmas, I get ANOTHER e-mail asking me to join Wish beta 2.0! Apparently they had made some significant progress and were opening it back up to try to get people interested. In this e-mail they claim to have received 60,000 beta applications. I thought, "Wow, this must be a pretty good game if that many people are interested." I made a mental note to check it out when I got back.
Tonight, I remembered about this and went to download the client.
I found this instead.
Wish beta 2.0 lasted a total of 9 days. I don't get it, and I'm not sure this is such an interesting thing to write about, but something smells funny, and it ain't my apartment (we took care of that yesterday). I probably won't ever know the truth, but the conspiracy theorist in me wonders what really happened to cause such a huge crash and burn when the game was supposedly almost finished.
The only thing I'm going to say is one of the screenshots on the main page looks like it was pulled directly from the original Everquest. Seeing how that game is 6 years old now, that ain't a good thing. All the games coming out now look way better than that, so maybe the Wish guys came to their senses, realized their game sucked and pulled the plug. Maybe their investors got nervous. Maybe it was just a big joke.
Maybe I should just get "Super Nerd" tattooed on my forehead. Nah, you guys understand, right? You're gamers too, right? C'mon - holla atcha boy.
So incredibly stupid.
A long time ago - had to be at least 2 years, if not longer - I found out about a game in development called Wish. Ok, it's going to be this big dynamic online world, yeah sure, I'll sign up for the newsletter and maybe try out the beta when it comes along.
Time passes. Things happen. I graduate from college, have my appendix out, and discover the Smiths (not necessarily in that order).
About a year ago, I got an e-mail inviting me to join the Wish beta. I had forgotten all about the game at this point. Since I was on dial-up at the time, I decided not to even try downloading the beta client, but I held on to the e-mail in case I changed my mind.
Some more time passes. I quit my job and moved to Nashville to go back to school. In comes the cable modem, and one day in a fit of boredom I try to download the beta. Denied! I figured that might happen, since this was 8 months after beta had started. So I went on my merry way.
Then, while I'm home for Christmas, I get ANOTHER e-mail asking me to join Wish beta 2.0! Apparently they had made some significant progress and were opening it back up to try to get people interested. In this e-mail they claim to have received 60,000 beta applications. I thought, "Wow, this must be a pretty good game if that many people are interested." I made a mental note to check it out when I got back.
Tonight, I remembered about this and went to download the client.
I found this instead.
Wish beta 2.0 lasted a total of 9 days. I don't get it, and I'm not sure this is such an interesting thing to write about, but something smells funny, and it ain't my apartment (we took care of that yesterday). I probably won't ever know the truth, but the conspiracy theorist in me wonders what really happened to cause such a huge crash and burn when the game was supposedly almost finished.
The only thing I'm going to say is one of the screenshots on the main page looks like it was pulled directly from the original Everquest. Seeing how that game is 6 years old now, that ain't a good thing. All the games coming out now look way better than that, so maybe the Wish guys came to their senses, realized their game sucked and pulled the plug. Maybe their investors got nervous. Maybe it was just a big joke.
Maybe I should just get "Super Nerd" tattooed on my forehead. Nah, you guys understand, right? You're gamers too, right? C'mon - holla atcha boy.
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