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Awesome, this reflects my experience as an avid user around 1999. More context should probably be given, in my opinion the biggest rival to the services was Heat.net. Some mention should probably also be made about other ranking systms. Was it Jacob's ladders that others were using?
( fyi: heat.net was run on top of the MPath technology that MPlayer was a showcase for. -- Anon 20 July 2006 )
Mathiastck 19:35, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- True, I actually was thinking of adding a section on the various competitors. --Chroniclev 20:36, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] http://www.mplayerlive.com
Some are claiming this is the successor: http://www.mplayerlive.com
This thread: http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2000dec/gee20001221003458.htm
seems to be the the largest thread sicussing mplayer.com. Mathiastck 18:22, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bravo
Its great to see this article... It takes me way back, as MPlayer was the first gaming system I ever used online. One of the more popular games I remember, and played a lot was Mech Warrior 2, which I still own two copies. I sure do miss MPlayer, still have a few friends from it.--Azslande 22:57, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Games List?
Does anyone remember the list of games? I'm trying to remember some of the online RPGs and such that were on there but I just can't remember. There were some fun graphical ones, and I was wondering if they were still around?
- You can find a list of games through archive.org. I was debating whether a list was important enough to put in the article, but there are a lot of them and it wouldn't look very tidy. --Chroniclev 02:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://MPlayer.com it's kind of funny, I was lead back to this page because I stumbled on archive.org, and MPlayer was the first thing I could think of to look up :) Mathiastck 00:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
- There are some gems there, like on this page: http://web.archive.org/web/20010119185100/www.mplayer.com/ "We are excited to announce that GameSpy, a leading provider of online games technologies and services, has acquired Mplayer, our award-winning games and entertainment community. This is great news for our members!" Mathiastck 00:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] MPlayer-Arabia.com
First of all I am no Wiki-Geek. Not knowing how to do this writing editing and stuff I just edit (not mess :-) ) here to provide some informations I have missed here and searched for. Some of those pro's here who checks and adds stuff might and shall master it. thank you. Last to meantion is that from the very beginning in '96 till it's death I was pretty much addicted to mplayer and like many others later used mplayer-arabia to keep the atmosphere and style of games and gameplays.
Ok .. so that mplayer-arabia is dead by now too for whatever reason (emails kept unanswered) here is what I found on the net regarding the "mirror" of mplayer. mirror not in the meaning of physical copy but in the meaning of having mplayer as it was and should always have had remained. Using its engine and games and stuff. Here I missed any information about them but as they provided service for several years thus the buyout to gamespy and using the mplayer logo, engine and all the stuff it is a must to mention them here. may they all rest in peace.
So here is what I found:
MPlayer-Arabia.com was run by "Etisalat", an internet-company and ISP settled in middle-east which in 2004 became "eCompany.ae".
Emirates Internet and Multimedia Etisalat Tower, PO Box 3838 Abu Dhabi, 3838, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
They say on their website:
"Our Vision We seek to harness the power of the Internet revolution to e-enable our customers in the UAE and the Middle East.
Our Mission To bring the best Internet technologies and the most enriching content and solutions to our customers."
Emirates Internet has been the Middle East's first and foremost Internet Service since 1995, from Etisalat - the premier ISP in the Middle East.
In their company history you find:
2001: Mplayer-Arabia.com, Middle East's premier game vortal launched.
As mentioned before they did use the MPlayer engine and all the stuff 1:1 having just added arabian language support.
In 2003 the Samsung Cyber Challenge Dubai was held on MPlayer-Arabia.
The challenge is an online gaming event held in alliance with Emirates Internet and Multimedia’s (EIM) www.mplayer-arabia.com, the region’s premier online gaming site.
Find more infos to this on http://www.saudia-online.com/press/press2003/Jan03/samsongcyber.shtml or adequate press sites.
In 2005 again the Samsung’s World Cyber Games 2005 were held on MPlayer-Arabia.
"After setting international standards for UAE’s online gaming industry, Samsung Electronics, the global technology innovator, along with eCompany, the Internet Service and ICT powerhouse of Etisalat, today announced its plans to kick off the Olympics of the cyber gaming community, the ‘World Cyber Games 2005’, in UAE. Continuing in its three-year long tradition, since the first cyber gaming championship took place in UAE, this year again Samsung will host the UAE round in alliance with its local partner eCompany’s online gaming service engine www.mplayer-arabia.com."
Infos on: http://www.samsung.com/me/presscenter/pressrelease/pressrelease_20050811_0000183066.asp#
Last to add is that from 2002 they had an avery peak of 20 million users each day ! and about 35 to 40 million in late 2004 - early 2005. (Source: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.mplayer-arabia.com/ar_AE/index )
If that are not values to dream of ...
And this is pretty much all I was able to find on the net. Regarding the traffic stats they must have shut down the service somewhen in middle 2005.
By now the domain owner has changed and you just find a commercial search site there.
Today the record entry says:
Whois Record
Domain Name: MPLAYER-ARABIA.COM Registrant:
OpenIT Systems Limited Rm. 813 8/F Hollywood Plaza 610 Nathan Road Hong Kong, KL KOWLOON HK
That's all folx. If anyone can bring this to the pro-wiki style please go ahead. If anyone can add informations about their death please go ahead. If anyone can revoke the good ole' mplayer please go ahead :-)
84.139.10.17 08:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)Kai
- Thank you for contributing this. I had intended to write some more stuff on MPlayer-Arabia, and MPlayer-Europe, and maybe Livve and MPlayer Live and whatever else. Then perhaps rewrite the buyout section as it seems like an important topic. Maybe I'll get back to it when I have the chance. --Chroniclev 06:27, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Great Page
I'm just happy every time I see this page :) I still haven't found a gaming service that competes with good old MPlayer. Mathiastck 20:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sages?
"Experienced users would volunteer, known as Sages, to help newer users with any difficulties that may arise with the service or frequently asked questions."
They were actually called "Wizards", requiring that their name be Wizard-suchandsuch. Editted to reflect. 72.16.149.209 20:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Err, well scratch that. I don't recall Sages. I know my friend was a Wizard for quite awhile, and while he did help run events, his day to day 'job', as it were, was to help out the newbies, destroy corrupt game channels that popped up from time to time, etc, etc. 72.16.149.209 20:35, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
There were both Sage's and Wizards. I cant remember exactly how it went, but one of them had more power than the other. I believe Sages had the power moderate and help run events. Where as Wizards had more power, such as to create events and to eject/ban people. I believe sages were like "Helpers" and Wizards were like "Police". Dont quote me, but I remember both of them, and one was much like an apprentice to the other.--Azslande 22:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I was involved in the Sages/Wizards and the short-lived Tourney Host groups. Tourney Hosts were shortly brought on as users who were officially designated to run daily classics (hearts and spades) tournaments because at that time Wizards were used more as a watchdog and lobby leader than an event host (which was weekly if at all). These individuals had a "Tourney-" prefix and had a halo and angel wings icon. The Sages were the lowest level of official volunteer. This required an application and Wizard recommendation (Wizards were next in hierarchy). Originally the Sages ran the help desk lobby and were also responsible for answering any help desk pages with the pager function. The Sages were not technical geniuses, but were given a long list of FAQs to help with specific mplayer technical difficulties. Sages also monitored chat lobbies for trolls and then reported them to staff. The Wizards later opened up more free enrollment and they ran the weekly events. Gamegods were mplayer staff that were responsible for overseeing the Wizards (top of hierarchy). I agree with the assessment that Sages were more like Helpers and Wizards did police, but later on they played more of a tournament host role. However, I became inactive before the end of mplayer and don't know how things ended. Pablito15 04:07, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "A Riddle"
Anyone remember this little quote in Mplayer?
"A Riddle, wrapped in an Enigma, hidden behind the 'fridge"
Donno why but it just popped into my head the other day, I believe it was displayed either at Install or perhaps a splash screen when loading Mplayer or a Game.--Azslande 22:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Edits
To user:Richcoder, you seem to be rather knowledgeable on this subject. I'm not sure if you had some sort of connection to MPath or HearMe but I've tried to be careful to cite claims to sources in this article. Also most of the changes you've made were to the lead, which isn't really the place to do it as that is just a summary. I'm going to revert but if you were drawing from a specific source then let me know and I'll try to integrate the information into the article (and actually I never finished with everything I wanted to do with this article, so if I ever get back to it I may make changes to the parts you said were inaccurate). --Chroniclev 02:37, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
