Arcane Arena

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Arcane Arena is a defunct turn based MMORPG for the Macintosh, released by Freeverse Software in 2002. The game was described by Freeverse as "a huge dungeon filled with treasure, terrors, and a demoness who's a cross between Gwyneth Paltrow and your worst nightmare,"[Freeverse releases Arcane Arena online RPG at MacWorld] The Arcane Arena community is still active, playing turn-based browser games.

History

Arcane Arena was released in May 10, 2002 by Freeverse Software for Mac OS 8 and 9 and later for Mac OS X with a monthly fee of $4.99.

In late summer of 2004 the number of players dwindled to just a handful. At times there was nobody logged on the server. The decision was made in Q1 of 2005 to terminate the server. Arcane Arena had generated over 10GB of logs by that time and had become unstable.

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