Wish (computer game)

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Wish was a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) under development by Mutable Realms. The developers of the game coined a new name for their game's genre, Ultra Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, or UMMORPG, with the added word Ultra based on their claims that the game would be the first of its kind to support more than 10,000 simultaneous players in a single, seamless world, without any zones or "shards".

Wish was to be set in the fantasy world of Ganedan, with player actions having a lasting impact on the future of the land. One of the main events was to be an unending war between players and non-player characters, to unfold over the course of the game.

As of January 9, 2005, the Wish Project has been cancelled. The reason is described in part of a letter from Mutable Realms, and reads as follows:

"Wish has been shut down because with the data we gathered during the first 10 days of our Beta 2.0 test, even with our best-case projections for player numbers, we could not have reached enough subscribers for Wish to sustain itself."

Many theories have been brought up for the lack of potential subscribers, one of which states that Wish simply didn't have enough publicity to garner more beta sign-ups.

An independent group of former beta-testers and volunteer developers calling themselves "Project Wish" are aiming to create a community developed MMORPG that embodies the main design principles of Wish. More information can be found on their website.