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> The provider charged $6 an hour if you were accessing it from a 300-baud modem or $12 an hour for a 1200-baud modem.…What made it more expensive is that there
by raywu 6y ago
> The provider charged $6 an hour if you were accessing it from a 300-baud modem or $12 an hour for a 1200-baud modem.…What made it more expensive is that there was a significant time lag between the players and the game. Island of Kesmai processed a user command every 10 seconds, which meant that for every command given, you were paying $0.016 in game time.
Wow, did you recall paying to play?
- freetime2 6y agoI played through a service called GameStorm that was founded by the Kesmai corporation in their later years. They offered a very reasonable $10/mo subscription for unlimited to access to their collection of games.
- raywu 6y agoThanks for this detail. We need a People's History to video games