http://news.freeallegiance.org/ten-year-anniversary/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:52:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://news.freeallegiance.org/ten-year-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Allegiance Celebrates Ten Years of Gaming | Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:01:49 +0000 http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=55795#comment-12 [...] Ten years ago, in March of 2000, Microsoft Research (MSR) released “The Best Game No One Played,” Allegiance.  But, this space flight FPS, come RTS with managed economies was played.  You’re either the commander or a player.  Think StarCraft or HomeWorld where your units don’t HAVE to listen to you, and then imagine being one of those units.  Two years later, when MS decided to pull the plug on the game servers, such was the dedication of the community that Allegiance didn’t die. [...] [...] Ten years ago, in March of 2000, Microsoft Research (MSR) released “The Best Game No One Played,” Allegiance.  But, this space flight FPS, come RTS with managed economies was played.  You’re either the commander or a player.  Think StarCraft or HomeWorld where your units don’t HAVE to listen to you, and then imagine being one of those units.  Two years later, when MS decided to pull the plug on the game servers, such was the dedication of the community that Allegiance didn’t die. [...]

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