{"id":11588,"date":"2018-01-30T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/313894"},"modified":"2018-01-30T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T00:04:00","slug":"after-nearly-a-decade-mmo-alganon-shuts-down-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/30\/after-nearly-a-decade-mmo-alganon-shuts-down-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"After nearly a decade, MMO Alganon shuts down servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quest Online&#8217;s MMO <em>Alganon<\/em> has been offline since November of 2017. As noted by some eagle-eyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Games\/comments\/7tro10\/controvertial_mmo_with_turbulent_history_alganon\/\">Reddit users<\/a>, the game\u00a0is currently inaccessible\u00a0from the Steam store page.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alganon<\/em> originally launched in December\u00a02009 after being criticized for borrowing heavily from <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> for\u00a0its UI and mechanics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because of\u00a0lackluster reception from critics, Quest Online decided to remove David Allen (creator of the initial idea for <em>Alganon<\/em>) and replace him with game designer Derek Smart.\u00a0This prompted Allen to file a wrongful dismissal lawsuit against Quest Online, which was eventually settled.<\/p>\n<p>Problems continued even\u00a0after the re-launch of <em>Alganon<\/em>, which raised controversy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/100571-Derek-Smart-Caught-Up-in-Alganon-Plagiarism-Furor\">after it was revealed<\/a> that\u00a0its press release bore similar copy to BioWare&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Smart told users in a <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/350660\/discussions\/0\/1488861734104732461\/#c1488861734107413815\">Steam post<\/a> back in October 2017 that low server population was the cause for infrequent updates, writing that &#8220;we were planning a visual update, and another DLC, but those plans are on hold for now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In November the game went offline for what was <a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/350660\/announcements\/detail\/1450584646680495321\">characterized as<\/a> server maintenance and migration, with the last update written on January 16th.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quest Online&#8217;s MMO Alganon has been offline since November of 2017. As noted by some eagle-eyed Reddit users, the game\u00a0is currently inaccessible\u00a0from the Steam store page. Alganon originally launched in December\u00a02009 after being criticized for borrowing heavily from World of Warcraft for\u00a0its UI and mechanics.\u00a0 Because of\u00a0lackluster reception from critics, Quest Online decided to remove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}