Omerta (video game)
2003 video game
Omerta is a browser-based text MMORPG that launched in 2003. The player takes control of an American gangster in the 1930s, who must work their way up the ranks of organized crime by stealing cars, committing crimes, breaking people out of prison, and dealing alcohol and narcotics.
Development
Omerta was launched publicly on 26 September 2003 with the first version, now known as Omerta 1.0. This version was written by Moritz Daan in Groningen. During the 16-year run of Omerta, there have been about 38 million player registrations. In January 2008, Omerta moved to a new service provider with 20 servers running the FreeBSD operating system.
In July 2009 version 3.0 of Omerta was released. In the first month after the release more than 100,000 players registered.
Following several intermediate versions, in February 2013 version 4.0 was released with enhanced game-play and a modern graphical style replaced the original frame-based standard web layout.
Version 5.0 has been the current build since 2015.
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