NationStates 2
On 21 April 2008, Max Barry announced the upcoming launch of NationStates 2. It included complex new functions for war, trade, diplomacy, and customization. The website predicted a launch "later in 2008" and allowed users to sign up for an alert by email and text message. On 18 August 2008, a closed beta was announced, with 500 beta keys being given to random players from NS1. On 3 November 2008, an open beta was released to the public. However, there were complaints that the new features had been poorly implemented, especially from dedicated players of the original NationStates. Barry and game staff blamed OMAC, opening a rift between NationStates and its web host.
On 25 February 2009, Max Barry announced that NationStates was again becoming independently hosted, leaving the OMAC Industries servers and game system, "and doesn't have terribly much to do with NS2 any more." The precise nature of the remaining relationship has not been explained. Soon after, on 20 May 2009, a site admin posted on the new self-hosted forums that Jolt was closing NationStates 2. Max Barry also posted on the NationState News blog that although NationStates 2 had numerous paid features, he was not receiving any money from Jolt. As of 1 July 2009, NationStates 2's domain displays a message on what happened, and contains a redirect link to the original NationStates.
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