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StarPeace is a very popular MMORTS (Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy) PC game, in which players help build up the development of a massive world along with thousands of other players. Very similar to SimCity 4, StarPeace is fully online, and players must work together to build industrial, residential, retail markets, and more on a single planet, whilst at the same time gaining a steady income in which to fund their future expansion. As in true fashion, the game never ends. The planet continues to grow in an eternally-evolving state as each player adds more buildings to it each day, and each user can choose between a large selection of planets on which to play on. With very in-depth aspects in each field, this game is sure to last a long while without getting boring, as most MMOs do.

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History

The game was developed by Oceanus Communications, and originally published and released by Monte Cristo Multimedia in 2000. It quickly took Europe by storm, and became one of the most popular MMOs available. The game was quite cheap, and there were no monthly fees (unlike most MMOs these days). However, after 2 years, Monte Cristo Multimedia ceased to publish and distribute StarPeace. Desperatly looking for a new publisher, the developers at Oceanus showed their stuff at E3 2002 hoping to gain a new publisher. They caught the eye of video game giants Sega, who quickly became very interested in the game.

By late 2002, Sega became it's new official publisher, and also took over development of the game. They changed the name of the game to "Legacy Online", and re-released it as a free-download subscription based game. Players no longer needed to buy the game, but a subscription of $10 per month was required. There were quite a lot of problems with Sega's administration of the game, with users often complaining about login issues, server issues, or other such incidences on the new client and updates. It seems Sega themselves were having a lot of problems setting the game on their own servers, and making the neccecary changes to the client. In 2003, the game (and the website, and server access) disappeared into thin air. It seemed Sega has ceased to host and develop the game due to too many technical difficulties, and not enough interest (they wern't making enough money from it).

In April of 2004 (after nearly a year of being down), a hardcore fan named Puggy (with his newly created title "Pugland Games"), approaced Oceanus Communications (the original developer and owner) asking for permission to re-release StarPeace. Since "OC" wern't doing anything with it, they gave him the rights, and he has since taken control of the game and ran it on his own server for free, under it's original name. This was welcomed by hundreds of die-hard fans who hadn't played the game in nearly a year, and were very upset at Sega's poor administration (and abandonment) of the game. Puggy has since implemented a $10 per month fee for play on Exclusive servers, but still has the free server and worlds set-up for everyone, which are supported by ads.

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