When Quest for Glory V began development in 1996, the development team envisioned a multiplayer feature that would allow up to three players to compete and collaborate online.

Multiplayer was built into early versions of the product, including the Quest for Glory Sneak Peek Demo released in late 1997.

As the game moved farther along in development, it became increasingly difficult to ensure that the multiplayer system would be reliable enough to include in the final version.

In the last months before the games release late last year, Sierra decided to ship Quest for Glory V as a single player adventure. The final box design was revised to represent Quest for Glory V as a single player game.

Many people at Sierra, including series creator Lori Cole, had hoped the multiplayer feature would be added later as a free upgrade. With the closure of the Yosemite Entertainment and the resulting loss of the Quest for Glory V programming team, the multiplayer expansion plan became impossible. Many of us at Sierra are dissapointed, as we had been looking forward to playing Quest multiplayer as much as the fans.

Sierra will continue to provide free technical support for this product. Version 1.1, a patch which resolves known single-player bugs found after release, is available as a free download users through Sierra Utilities (Windows) and on the Sierra FTP site (Windows and Macintosh).

If approved, the first award in this category will be named at the year 2000 Grammy ceremony.

Thomas is back in the studio hard at work on the soundtrack for Middle-earth, a massively multiplayer game based on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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