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''Endless Ages'' was a computer game of the massively multiplayer online first person shooting genre with elements of role play, such as character classes, quests, an auction system-based economy and a player-versus-player combat system. When released for beta in Spring 2001 it was the first multiplayer online game to merge first person shooting and role-playing. The game had its full commercial release on July 1, 2003.〔http://pc.ign.com/objects/017/017346.html〕 Originally developed and owned by Aaron Boucher and his independent Avaria Corporation, the game was sold as part of a game engine licensure agreement with Rapid Reality Studios,〔http://games.ign.com/objects/944/944703.html〕 a now defunct game developer who tried to improve it by creating a sequel named ''Phylon''. The sequel did not have a very good reception, and in July 2007 the game went off-line. In May 2008 a former ''Endless Ages'' player and an investor, doing business as Digital Motion Entertainment,〔http://www.aboutus.org/Endless-Ages.com〕 acquired the rights to the game and re-released it in something similar to its gold version, calling it ''Endless Ages Reborn''.〔〔 == Back-story == ''Endless Ages'' takes place after you die—and begin to inhabit planet Iia *(a takeoff of Jupiter's moon Io, ) a world where all beings from all worlds, places and time end up. Because a few minutes on Iia is the same as hundreds of years in our time weapons, architecture, magic, technology, and even creatures that have been extinct to the world now coexist. * Some people dispute this and believe the planet should be pronounced Eye-eye-aye when the developers used all caps - IIA. Still others, however, believe that the developer's use of IIA was an oversight, as that would make it an acronym. It has never been suggested that IIA stands for anything. Unlike most MMOs, ''Endless Ages'' doesn't have a cohesive, fully articulated back-story. The game lore basically is about the four races; human male and female, amphibians and bloblics all vying independently of each other for control of the various worlds against the monsters, known as Mobs, of which there are hundreds who roam the land and guard their territory. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Endless Ages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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