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IOL

  • noun The incarnation of MUD2 which ran on the Ireland Online network from 1994 to 1995.

    Historical note: arising from the ashes of the Almac incarnation, IOL's MUD2 was vibrant and fun but (inevitably) free. It remained free despite MUSE's being assured that charging would begin for it on a number of occasions. Other factors, most notably complaints from IPLAY that IOL players had been on their system poachin, contributed to the eventual decision to withdraw the game from their service. To be fair, they had no hard feelings and they asked to take it again after Interplay reneged on their exclusivity agreement promise; by then, though, MUSE had arranged a licence for mud2.com, and felt it wouldn't have been fair on that system to agree.


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