On: EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games

[neito]

I'm kinda disappointed that they're carving out a huge exception for MMO-style games. If anything, I think that (if only due to the social structures that evolve within them) they're the most valuable but fragile types of online games.

[Zikes → neito]

Allegiance [1] is an example of this happening in the MMO space.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(video_game)

[FranOntanaya → Zikes]

And for further reference: http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index.php?act=home

This game has really great mechanics with a really huge emphasis on teamwork. It was probably ahead of its time when it was released.

[viewer5 → FranOntanaya]

At work so I can't click the link--is that game still alive? I played it a little when I was in high school.

[FranOntanaya → viewer5]

Friday nights and weekends, although I haven't played it in years, basically since I switched to Linux.

[thefreeman → neito]

My first instinct was that they wanted to avoid going head to head with Blizzard on this, at least initially.