Phase one is complete

AE just released an announcement stating that they have completed phase one, for your reading pleasure here it is below:

We’re very pleased to inform the player community about the status of Artifact’s game server platform. After more than 6 months of extensive design and development effort in conjunction with outside sources, Artifact’s revolutionary distributed server technology has undergone internal testing and has solidly proven its unique capabilities. The expandability and adaptability of the server platform allows the creation of unique, machine-controlled opponents, each with distinct personalities, who can follow a player over any distance and are capable of evolving and learning over time. This technology creates a land without zones, a place where each sword and shield is unique to the blacksmith who created it, an environment with changing weather patterns producing snow or rain. Artifact’s server technology allows us to blur the line between whether a character is human or machine controlled. Our goal is to not create a game – our goal is to create a new reality. With this new technology, it is the goal of Artifact Entertainment to change what Massively Online Role Playing Game means to gamers over the world. – David Allen.

hey phase one is complete and they TESTED it. this means they are in Alpha, FINALLY.