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Why Ryzom?

TuutobTuutob Member Posts: 607
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I just heard the news and it saddens me. The whole past week I have been looking into it, and now this came as a brick to the face.

I hope a company will pick it up. I have been raving about its economy and community since
I tried it back in April, but I havent had a computer to play it on since.

Anyone else on the boat with me?


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  • FaurFaur Member Posts: 330
    I'm currently subscribing to ryzom and played it off and on since beta. The skill system is one of my favourites and it's too bad it didn't catch on more.

    Other games' skills feels completely restrictive and redundant after I play ryzom.



  • AranStormahAranStormah Member Posts: 278
    Terribly saddened to hear about their bankruptcy :(

    That was undeserved for a game with this amount of quality gameplay. Like most PvE based online games I wasn't able to get addicted to it for more than a couple of months, but the crafting and skillsystem is a work of genious and as far as non-quest based PvE MMO's goes Ryzom must be near the top.

    If all the games you've played are refered to by people as everquest clones and you don't know why, playing this would help you see an alternative take on gameplay. The wildlife isn't as realistic as some sources might have you think, but it's a few notches above the "3million idle boars in a forest" type which does add to the general feel.

    Wish Ryzom and all its players the best for the future.
  • SinitassuSinitassu Member Posts: 67
    prolly died 'cos it is not WoW enough :C


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  • tubelighttubelight Member UncommonPosts: 276
    i dont understand one thing, Ryzom is a very popular game with a lot of paying customers, how come it went bankrupt? If a game like Dark and Light goes bankrupt we can understand the reasoning but i dont understand it for Ryzom...


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  • ValidurValidur Member Posts: 48
    Originally posted by tubelight
    i dont understand one thing, Ryzom is a very popular game with a lot of paying customers, how come it went bankrupt? If a game like Dark and Light goes bankrupt we can understand the reasoning but i dont understand it for Ryzom...
    I presume it wasn't 'mainstream' enough or something and simply didn't pull in the numbers required to breakeven. Such is the problem of small (?) mmo developers, having a large corperation like SOE (meh) or Turbine (meh) to back you up is a big help, but then you can loose some of the creative edge. It's a fine line and unfortunatly it didn't pay off for the Ryzom makers like it has done for CCP. Or I could be wrong :P
     

  • AranStormahAranStormah Member Posts: 278
    Sounds plausible enough ^^ Another thing that might be factored in is they're development of the Ryzom Ring expansion, which I think was free. Alllthough you'd expect that to be made to fit their budget, so I dunno.
  • ApocalypticaApocalyptica Member Posts: 491
    Could someone maybe post a link to those news, haven't even heard from it. How sad, it was a nice mmorpg :|

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  • myserenmyseren Member Posts: 13


    Originally posted by tubelight
    i dont understand one thing, Ryzom is a very popular game with a lot of paying customers, how come it went bankrupt? If a game like Dark and Light goes bankrupt we can understand the reasoning but i dont understand it for Ryzom...

    Its been in the french equvilant of administration for quite a few months afaik.  The ring was supposed to be one of the 'savious' pulling in enough players to rescue it.  Seems their time was up and they have accepted they cant claw their way out of debt :(
  • ApocalypticaApocalyptica Member Posts: 491


    Originally posted by Vendayn
    http://www.ryzom.com/news

    I was gonna sign up for it today too! GRRR, oh well...hopefully the new owners work out and do more patches than the original owners did.

    Great game and hope it succeeds.


    Thanks for the link. This is realy bad. I hope they will push through and get it all sorted.

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  • nomadiannomadian Member Posts: 3,490
    Hmm strange mmorpgchart.com doesn't seem to show it's numbers.
  • AntipathyAntipathy Member UncommonPosts: 1,362
    Sad news.

    It wasn't the game for me, but even so, Ryzom was far more innovative than 90% of the other games out there, and many of their ideas were good.





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