If only...

Dragim

....People would get a big interest in Dark age of camelot again.

Everyone keeps waiting for the "next big thing", but why can't an older game be "the next big thing"

Many of you MMOers missed out on the awesomeness that was dark age of camelot.  You either didn't try it, or you started playing MMOs after it came and went.

I don't see why it couldn't become popular again.  People say, oh the graphics are outdated, the mechanics are old, there are too many expansions already/they ruined the game.  I beleive they do have classic servers, and things can't always go back to the way they were, but the game is just so awesome.

It is probably just me, but I would definetly start playing dark age of camelot again if the general mmo public became interested in it once again.

If we could even just get the bored MMORPG forum/viewer community to choose a server and flood it with 14 day free trials just to see what would happen.  <Waits for a flame on this line of text>

I don't know, probably just me wishing, and will never happen, but it is at the very least, fun to think about/discuss.  For me at least.

Dibdabs

You can never go back.

pojung

I would yearn for this as well. However, there really is no such thing as going back. The team would need to be reformed, and things brought up-to-date to be considered in a current market. It's like asking people to 'go back to 80s dance music' because it was more enjoyable entertainment. While that might be true (taste depending), it won't happen because the market only moves forward. It thrives on a collective interest rising.

The current game won't see the attention. Get a remake with updated polish, and blam-o!

Ilvaldyr

Was never my game, but there's almost certainly a market for it.

I think that one of the reasons that WAR sold very well at launch (1.2m copies in the first two weeks?) was that many people saw it as the spiritual successor to DAoC as well as a viable alternative to WoW.

I don't know which will influence potential investors more; the outstanding box sales or the equally dramatic decline in subscriptions. Hopefully it's the former, 'cos I'd like to see a game that provided great RvR and great PvE.

Neanderthal

Part of the problem is a lack of momentum among us, the players, to jump in and play.  You know that feeling that THIS is the thing to try NOW.  Older games can't get that sort of momuntum, that excitement and hype, going again.  Opening fresh new servers and advertising it is about the best they can do.  Some of the older games could try classic relaunches and it might draw in a fair number of people but so far no game I know of has done this.  I don't mean just opening a server which is sort of classic.  I mean really restarting with the game returned to it's orginal state (except for bug fixes) and promoting it as a relaunch.

It might work if they hyped it up enough.  Maybe they could look at the reasons why people left which usually involves changes which were made to the game later on and promise not to make the same mistakes.  Or maybe not do a purely classic relaunch but a classic-revised relaunch which changes a few things which people disliked.

Anyway, quite often on these boards you'll see people saying that X game is still running so why don't you whiney old timers just go back and play it.  The problem is usually that X game really isn't the same game that the whiney old timer loved back in the day.

dstar.

I played daoc at its birth for a few months, I couldn't stand it.  I wanted to rip my eyes out playing it.  I ran back to UO, Quake, and Starcraft.  Though I did like EVE, Planetside and WoW.  I watched a friend play it a lot though. It was really cool watching him and his team ae mez another team and kill them one by one while they couldn't do anything about it.

Dragim

Originally posted by dstar.


I played daoc at its birth for a few months, I couldn't stand it.  I wanted to rip my eyes out playing it.  I ran back to UO, Quake, and Starcraft.  Though I did like EVE, Planetside and WoW.  I watched a friend play it a lot though. It was really cool watching him and his team ae mez another team and kill them one by one while they couldn't do anything about it.

 

Thats why PURGE came about to instantly dispell the mez/stun.  Also other classes have abilities and spells as well to end the mezmerations. But all are valid arguments.  I guess I just haven't gotten that feeling that I got from DAoC in a long time, except in warhammer closed beta, when I was looking forward to all the awesome things they WERE promising.

Ravanos

if ONLY the idiots at Mythic didn't try to create WoW with more focus PVP and just "remade" DAOC with the Warhammer IP. with some obvious tweaks, i think that game could have been huge.

 

 

delete5230

I only played the trial.

I found Daoc to be good, not great but good.  I was very surprised that the graphics were up their with the best of the modern games.  But the UI and the maps were too confusing.  Don't get me wrong, I could have easily overcome the outdated maps and UI, but I'll take a chance and speak for the entire MMO community and say that an old game like this should be $4.99 a month.

If it were $4.99 a month many of us would not even miss that cost very much, and may stick around longer !

EQ1 suffers from the same dilemma as Daoc, both will not settle for less than $14.95.........$12.95, or $9.99 a month will not cut it it has to be $4.99.

kfard

I second that motion! 4.99/month for old games would be a sure win to get more subscribers and possibly even new players. I am one of those that never played daoc...I played way too much uo and eq back in those days to even notice this gem. but so many years later paying the same as way back when just seems stupid...and I am pretty sure people that never played daoc would think the same....however...if they were to lower the monthly investment people would have a reason to try this game....I know I would....and I would probably stay too if I would end up liking it

peace  

Geeky

$4.99 a month.   I would definatly give this game a 3 month run at that price.