![]() ![]() ![]() “After you get some weeks on the lobby, you get to know pretty much everyone, and even become good friends with some.” Nearly everybody I spoke to emphasised that social aspect, mediated through the ‘Populous Reincarnated’ (PopRe) forums and fan-made matchmaker software. “It’s a small community, and quickly becomes like a family,” said Pedro Faria, who has been playing online since 2005. So how come there’s still an active group of Populous players keeping the flame alive nearly twenty years later? I got in touch with some of the community’s longest-standing members to find out. EA absorbed Bullfrog in 2001, and shut down the game’s multiplayer server in 2004. It was ‘incredibly entertaining for about two weeks’ (Trent Ward, IGN). It ‘sn’t really Populous’ (Ron Dulin, GameSpot). In 1998, Bullfrog released Populous: The Beginning, a quirky RTS sequel to the legendary Populous series of god games, to middling reviews.
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