10 years of subspace - any celebrations planned?

[Lemmin]

Comrades!

The fine game we know as subspace will be 10 years old very soon. Although the actual release date for SubSpace as a commercial game was November 1997, the game itself began sometime in the Spring/Early summer of 1996 with public betas.

I have a couple of questions:

1) does anyone know the exact date that the experimental game "Sniper" turned into SubSpace? Sniper first appeared in the Autumn/Winter 1995 as an experiment to test online gaming. However, it proved so popular that VIE decided to develop it into a full blown game, and SubSpace was born. I think SubSpace entered public beta sometime in April or May 1996 (I started playing mid-may 1996 as a beta tester). Someone must have a better idea when...

2) Are there any celebrations planned for SubSpace's 10th birthday? I'm planning on celebrating (if thats the right word) my 10th anniversary in may - maybe with a Subby barbecue (depending which country I'm in) and a tattoo

All in all I think SubSpace is aging very well, considering it was one of the first massively multiplayer online games!

LEM

[gran guerrero]

PARRTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :w00t: :headbang: :groovy:

[A_S_S_wipe]

Sure we can have a Subspace Convention like the old days, if you wanna see drunken fist fights and whores getting gang-banged in teh lobby of some cheap hotel. Oops, we don't do SubCon anymore

Umm, I don't think I'll be celebrating ten years of subspace. In fact, the more it's mentioned the more I think of the wasted hours of my life. this I try to offset by the online chatting aspect of it, but still I feel robbed.. To honor the birth of Subspace is like honoring Satan for giving us free access to cheap liquor: at first we enjoy it then we find out we have no liver or can't remember "that person in the bed".
Hail levis, though! HEIL! HEIL! HEil to the ones of BLUE!!!

[Sleuth]

Lemmin, in no disrespect, its a game, ad youve been playing for 10 years. Go outside :grin:

[Hydride]

You haven't even been playing one and you're telling people to go outside

:P lol no disrespect btw

[Sleuth]

You haven't even been playing one and you're telling people to go outside

:P lol no disrespect btw

I actually started back in 2002 :fear: Not saying im a vet or anything, this is just a new alias :greedy:

[Lemmin]

Ok, further research turns up some more info.

According to Epi's history of subspace http://www.geocities.com/epinephrine.rm/ (thanks to Beasty for the link) SS went public beta in March 1996. That doesn't give us much time to organise anything I'll try and persuade staff to have a few events hosted or something.

Any other ideas would be appreciated.

My current tattoo plans for my own May anniversary are a small Warbird with my name and a bounty underneath. Any suggestions will be listened to (and probably ignored, especially if they are obscene).

LEM

[Superted]

How about a BBQ?

You know something's up when you travel to the other side of the world and you're still under ss' curse.

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Just dont get a tatoo you might regret Lem, please. This has to be a good party, not just a few events hosted, i mean ten years is a long time and the game is still growing. Im trying to think but maybe make massive changes to the game then? Or a new event or something?

[Lemmin]

Thanks for the concern I've thought about the tattoo thing for a while. Hell, anything that has kept my interest for 10 years (an impressive feat) is probably worthy of a few square centimetres of my skin! It won't be big...

I've been thinking more about this birthday. I might take this 10 year anniversary to a few online news services, see if they want to write a story about it. I feel SS deserves recognition as one of the very first MMOGs, and probably the most successfull of its generation.

If anyone has a reason why I shouldn't (getting swamped with hits on the website or ingame, for instance) let me know and I'll hold fire.

LEM

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Ive been saying take SS to other online game services for years. Why the hell we havent applied for this to be put on mimiclip is beyond me. It would boost our zone population massively, something im not sure however tw is quite ready for, but it is still an idea.

[Lemmin]

Back in the day when I was on staff, I was fully prepared to do a massive marketting campaign, but it was pointed out to me that since TW has to pay for its own bandwidth (and the donations are never enough) that a massive influx of newb players could end up bankrupting the zone.

Staff don't want to get too many people on the server, in case it falls over, and I'll respect their wishes. Its just a pity that it might mean SS's 10th birthday sneaks past without anyone outside knowing.

I personally think the BBC might be interested in writing an article, and I'm sure a few of the less mainstream, more specialised news outlets would write something. I looked up the old gamespot article about SS posted 1/5/1996, which is probably what got me playing in the first place - they'd probably do a followup!

LEM

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Sounds good, hope this works and ss gets some media attention. Apparently a couple of years back it featured on a games show on tv in the uk, although i never saw it but a friend did.

[Galleleo]

You are gonna get a tattoo of a game?

wow..

[Mr. Peanuts]

Yeah it was on some Sky channel as a shareware games section of a show. That must have been 3-4 years ago.

All come over to my town for a nice BBQ on the sandhills. There will be bottled beers too