Re:Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?
by ShakataGaNai on Sunday June 27, 2021 @12:30AM
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Oh man. MUD's in the late 90s. Just randomly reminded me of all the time I spent in Medivia (I'm fairly sure that was the one). Those were good times. Surprised the name even came to me since I haven't thought about those in... 20ish years.
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Re:Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?
by sjaak on Sunday June 27, 2021 @01:33AM
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Medivia? Judging from screenshots that looks a lot like Tibia (https://www.tibia.com)
Re:Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?
by Izkata on Sunday June 27, 2021 @05:02AM
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Never heard of Medivia before, but looking at screenshots and their site, that is absolutely some sort of fork/copy of Tibia. Even the world map is basically same shape, with locations shifted slightly and renamed, and the game interface is the same. I think they may even be using the old sprites from before a UI revamp a bit over a decade ago, from when I played Tibia.
Edit: Found this [0] which states Medivia originally started as a private Tibia server that eventually evolved into its own game. People were only just starting to make private Tibia servers when I left (or maybe they were only just starting to become popular, not sure anymore), which explains why I hadn't heard of this.
Tibia was created in 1997, I played roughly 2002 - 2006. Looks like Medivia was first created in 2009 [1], I would guess probably still just a private server at the time.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/i480jd/medivia_4_ol...
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MediviaMMO/ (right sidebar)