Hyrrix over at Wish Vault, formerly our distinguished Editor-in-Chief here at MMORPGdot, has written an interesting article about the history of Wish's design concept. Here's a short preview:

When the press release with Wish's announcement first surfaced, it was recepted with a good deal of scepticism. During a time in which there were more mmorpg projects in the pipeline than one could count and the chances of success extremely slim, Mutable Realms was just another new company that came out of nowhere and announced to deliver us the impossible. Yes, as is common with those press releases, humbleness wasn't exactly one of its virtues. It introduced from the start a new character to the already unpronouncable acronym of our beloved genre: the Ultra Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.