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I'm not currenly playing any MMO's. If they release Origins (looks like it might be possible), I'd come back and try to recapture some of those glory days - if even a little taste.
I've played a lot of MMO's, but Pre TOA DAOC is still my favorite. Sad? Maybe.
Will it be familiar and yet wrong - like banging an ex that got old and fat ; or like reconnecting with an old flame that still smells and feels good even though its been a long time?
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do i really want to get sucked into another mmo? not really. am i older, more mature and can control my habits better? not likely.
i'd definitely contemplate though. hell, who am i kidding, if everyone makes the jump. see you on the other side.
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Mythic is just lazy, if a bunch of unpaid geeks can run freeshards without any problem and Mythic has difficulty even doing ½ the things they are doing on freeshards, while getting paid, than what does that tell you? Freeshards fixed the buff bot problem and are already having servers you ‘pay to play on’ that hold stats. Mythic is whining about the buff bot issue – so what do they do on freeshards? Well, if you cannot afford to have another bot account, or the computers to run multiples you pay a few dollars more and get access to an npc that you can use as a summon stone that gives you all the buffs. Now if freeshards can do this – why can’t Mythic? Ok lets talk about Old Frontiers. There seems to be people on both sides of the fence (which I honestly find hard to believe) but some people actually enjoy New Frontiers. So some shards on the freeshards twist the frontiers ever few months. So 1 month it’s old frontiers, the next it’s new frontiers. Everybody is happy. Now again - if a bunch of unpaid nerds can do this, yet Mythic cannot.. what does that tell you? It’s about effort, because I doubt a bunch of unpaid nobodies can out technology the peepz at Mythic.
Would I go on old frontiers? Yep… with my entire pl team. Why? Because I loved it, it was the best time in the game, and I know I would roll with lazy returnee’s needing a pl. Do I think they should make a separate server for this? Hell to the no. Simple bring it on the live servers, and twist it every few months to make all sides happy. Simple.
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Never going to happen. Origins is a carrot they drag out every few months to get people excited and keep paying for their accounts. Meanwhile they are putting all the current clusters together in a new server called Ywain. Why would they do that then turn around and split the population again by opening Origins? It makes no sense. Granted Mythic has done many things that made no sense in DAOC's history, but I'm still skeptical they would make this mistake.
On balance I like the NF with TOA ruleset more than the others that have existed in DAOC's history, so I'm not especially excited about Origins anyway. You can't go home again. Even if you replace NF with OF it still won't be anywhere close to the same game you are fondly remembering from 7 years ago. Too much has changed and too many people you knew and fought with or against have left and won't be back.
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Most of the 'old school die hards' all are on freeshards anyways. I see Wrath, Larfo, TNO people all the time over there bashing it up.
But the excuse of Mythic 'we cannot do it' is pathetic. It's 'we won't do it' because again... if a bunch of unpaid nerds with a few computers can satisfy the people that left here for there, than something must be wrong.
I'm still pushing for old frontiers on live servers, not new servers.
Plus - the freeshards people stated they would shut down the shards if old frontiers returned here.
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Origins is not gonna happen sorry  here's the Mark Jacobs Post about it, or at least the copy of the post
http://vnboards.ign.com/daoc_origins/b23269/110428842/p1/?0
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Seriously doubt Origins will see the light of day... and even if it does, by some miracle, actually happen, they'll find some way for it to be absolutely terrible.
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I miss my merc
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I would enjoy it. But Chooch is likely correct. It will be all hosed up.
Lets list thing we hated about New Frontiers.
Slopes that you can't climb along river banks. - Water being every where.
Towers.
Boat Rides.
The Lag.
They changed Darkness Falls. (not so much NF but still)
And the fact everyone quit after realizing this kaka sucks.
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Now let's be fair and list all the things we liked about NF.
Telling Rackir to 'zerg more, imo!'
. . .
That's all I got.
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I reactivated two of my accounts out of boredom tonight. After activated them I remembered what was on them...
Account 1:
Healer
Hero
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Cleric
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Eld
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Kinda a huge waste, I'm grinding on my level 40 infiltrator so I can solo my way back to #1 RP holder on Gawaine!
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Sometimes its nice to pop on here and see some of the old timers How you doing Sky? Been a long time! Like some of the others, I agree that we will never get our old DAoC that we all loved and miss very much now. Nothing beat buying a necklace and waiting on a pad to port over to enemy realms. And those times you bought it and forgot to put it on...man...fucked up your group for 15 mins :P I mean it never happened to me...but <cough> ...
Anyway...while Mythic contemplates on this Origins server, I am going to build a time machine to go back 7 years and play the game I loved. See you all there
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Iwillpbae posted:
Anyway...while Mythic contemplates on this Origins server, I am going to build a time machine to go back 7 years and play the game I loved. See you all there
definitely the number one reason for a time machine haha
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If John Titor can do it so can he.
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Everyone grew up and left home. The parents decided to remodel.
It wouldn't be the same.
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If it comes back i'll re-sub for a month or so. I dont expect it to be like it was 7 years ago though, kinda crappy but oh-well.
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Well as far as the post Jacobs ran, that was back in March. It was posted last week by Mythic that work has resumed on Origins.
This DOES not mean that it will happen. As said before it could possibly just be a ploy. Off hand though I do not understand why Mythic does not clamp down on Free Shards big time. It is without doubt one of the clearest cases of copyright infringements one could possibly see. Yes, if they did this it would not be certain those playing would re-sub to Mythic, but some would, and some is better than none. They have nothing to lose by shutting down free shards.
Anyway while I would like to say I would play origins in a heart beat I heard some things that made me think "Ugh...." can't remember exactly what it was but had something to do with some ToA classes being part of origins, others that were pre ToA not being in at all or radically modified.
Also, I am sure that many of you believe in your hearts and minds that OF was the most fun you ever had in DAoC and in many regards it was. Nothing like old style relic raids, relic keeps and defenses. But I guarantee the first time Albs or Mids got bottled up at the milegate the whines would begin.
One last thing. While I'm not a large fan of ToA and a lot that has happened since. I do enjoy some of the other changes. I cannot imagine playing a toon that cannot cap 101 areas.
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nothing like taking a relic in primetime then waking up the next day and the HKers took it right back.
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xXmoriarityXx posted:
Off hand though I do not understand why Mythic does not clamp down on Free Shards big time. It is without doubt one of the clearest cases of copyright infringements one could possibly see. Yes, if they did this it would not be certain those playing would re-sub to Mythic, but some would, and some is better than none. They have nothing to lose by shutting down free shards.
You answered your own question. They have very little to gain by shutting down shards at this point. Shards don't have all that many players to begin with and only a tiny portion of those would come back to DAOC after Mythic shut them the shards they were playing on. I'm sure the legal costs of shutting down shards would far exceed the revenue from those returning players. Many of the more popular shards are not in the U.S. too, so it's not even clear Mythic could succeed at shutting them down.
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I think this is home. Its not the MMO's but the people. Whether all our lives crossed because Mythic happened upon a successful game is undeniable, once there it was each other that made it all it was. I saw the warmth when some of us all went to POTBS I saw it again when many went to WAR. We were a cross section from Albs, Mids and Hibs and less some that couldn't let old stuff be forgotten there was no drama. What I'm saying is you will never find home but if you put the effort to make new friends and aquaintances you may find a new home. I'm commenting to point out that don't go looking for the old home go looking for a new one or you wont find anything.
I guess I also wanted to make it common knowledge that in WAR we as a guild saw the least turn over and shrinkage than any guild and we played on the largest pop server. All the other guilds around us dwindled to nothing but ours, though declined from WAR's short-commings, shrank at a much slower rate than any I got to know. And you all know I have a big mouth so I met all the other guilds and guild leaders. My 2 cents.
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Bahgoon posted:
Now let's be fair and list all the things we liked about NF.
Telling Rackir to 'zerg more, imo!'
. . .
That's all I got.
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ElricFE1 posted:
!!!!!!
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it'll never be the same but damn those were some good times.
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I agree you can ne ver go home again, but I will say once alot of people left gawaine I had alot of fun messing around solo on classics with toons in the various realms, and a bit on mordred. I went camping the other weekend with Retaliation and Sunny Z (minstrel from our guild, not sunfires) and after trading old daoc stories I really have that damn itch again ;/
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-BurningSensation- posted:
I went camping the other weekend with Retaliation and Sunny Z . . . I really have that damn itch again
I would think that antibiotics may be in order.
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that is definitely not how I got the name Burning Sensation
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They arent going to releaes origins and it isn't even the original games. Adding valkyries and removing theurgists is just a stupid idea imo. /wave
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I'll be interested in seeing what happens with this new server that they are going to allow character transfers to. I'd probably reup for a few months to mess around on it, considering I wouldn't have to deck out and level new toons.
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I'll be interested in seeing what happens with this new server that they are going to allow character transfers to. I'd probably reup for a few months to mess around on it, considering I wouldn't have to deck out and level new toons.
Sweet! Free rps for my Hibby toons! 
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pssshhh. fear the friar! Allthough I havent played him since they boosted friars up finally and everyone started rolling them ;/
I'm gonna copy over my supp bonedancer from bossiny and cheese it up too 
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Skywing0 posted:
I reactivated two of my accounts out of boredom tonight. After activated them I remembered what was on them...
Account 1:
Healer
Hero
Cleric
Cleric
Cleric
Account 2:
Eld
Druid
Cleric
Cleric
Kinda a huge waste, I'm grinding on my level 40 infiltrator so I can solo my way back to #1 RP holder on Gawaine!
good luck with that! jeep has 66mil+ on his druid alone
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