Editing Asheron's Call (section)

=== 1994 - 1999 ===
==== Game Development ====
* Development of Asheron's Call began in 1994 after Turbine and Microsoft had entered into a developer/publisher agreement where legal ownership of the property and subsequently-developed properties were owned by Microsoft.(source?)
* All of the games [[Servers]] and the initial beta testing were also hosted on Zone.msn.com as part of the publishing agreement with Microsoft.
* "Empyrean" was the code name Microsoft used to refer to Asheron's Call in 1997 when the game was still in development. <ref>1997/07 ZDNet - [http://web.archive.org/web/19990921232852/http://www1.zdnet.com/familypc/content/9706/e3/03online.html Let the Online Games Begin]</ref>
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