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Dark Age of Camelot: Team Kicks Off Steam Greenlight Campaign
SBFord
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UPDATE: Ultima Online is also now a candidate for Steam's Greenlight campaign. Find out more on the Ultima Online Steam Greenlight page.
The Dark Age of Camelot team has officially announced that it has started a Steam Greenlight campaign in order to bring the title to the gaming platform. Fans are invited to head to the Greenlight page to vote.
Live the Legend!
King Arthur is dead and with him the force that held three Realms in an uneasy peace. Now the defenders of Albion, Midgard, and Hibernia are locked in a mortal struggle to defend their sacred relics and preserve their homelands. Band together with fellow champions of your Realm from over 40 classes and more than 20 races. Witness wondrous magic clashing with deadly siege weaponry as raiding parties cross frontier battlefields strewn with the bodies of fallen warriors. As heroes, they return with captured treasures and the insignia of victory. Join our community of passionate players and Live the Legend of Camelot.
Head to the Dark Age of Camelot Steam Greenlight page to vote.
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Ummm are they changing anything to pull in new and old players? I tried to go back a cpl of years ago and the engine is sooooo dated, plus the Ui is positively archaic.
If its going to steam for greenlight, there needs to be something to pull me back.
Lolipops !
Agreed. I also tried to go back and it's just not playable any more.
AGreed, I'd play again in a heartbeat if they worked out a better UI/control scheme. It felt archaic in 2003.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
The way mmo's were: Community, Exploration, Character Development, Conquest.
The way mmo's are now : Cut-Scenes,Cut-Scenes, solo Questing, Cut-Scenes...
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After the terrible problems that led to the closing of Warhammer Online, I don't think I could support anything of Mythic Entertainment any longer. I tried Dark Age of Camelot and don't see how it can compete in its current form with the new games available and coming out this year.
I don't get why they don't just do a total graphical/animation overhaul on the game. Just rejuvenize this great RVR game and it'll have a breadth of freshness to it. Seriously, less worthy, completely off the radar games have had massive overhauls, why not DAOC?
The game is still very relevant in terms of mechanics. RVR is a big thing even today, but games today don't have the same faction/server pride like DAOC and SWG had.
DAOC had a massive graphics overhaul years ago, it didn't do much to bring more people in. They tweaked the ui a bit around then to. I just don't think they can afford how much work that would actually take, to truly update it to anything resembling today's standards. Even being owned by EA now.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
I loved the living hell out of this game when it was current, but I'm in the same boat as most people. The nostalgia alone won't last long enough to re-sub, and I'm not sure how well a very dated 13-year-old game can do in an already over-saturated MMO market. It was on the downhill anyway in 2004 after EA got their game-destroying claws into it.
I hope something new is added. I can't lie, I'd enjoy playing this again.
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In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
I loved DAOC, it was the first MMO i ever played so it will always hold that special place in my heart.
That being said...why would EA even bother at this point doing anything with DAOC. Its been a downhill slope ever since the TOA expansion. And since EA bought out Mythic the haven't done anything with this game other than let it wither away. Players BEGGED for them to do the Origins server where it reverted the game to pre-TOA. They had some plans for it, teased us with those plans, then permanently shelved it.
This to me just sounds like classic EA trying to nickle and dime everything they can while putting the least amount of effort into it.
What would be the point in green lighting such an old game on Steam? Just don't see a reason for it.
It would be different if the game just received an overhaul that updated its graphics and UI to at least a 7 year old game, but that's not the case so why bother having it showing up in everyones faces on Steam when there are better, newer MMOs out there.
Downloaded last week, would go back if the graphics and UI got updated. This would seem like such an easy fix. It was really laggy as well.
I am excited to see some new fresh eyes on this though and hope they will take a swing at updating it. Love the classes and lore.
MIdgard forever
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I wouldnt mind paying 15$ a month again if they updated the UI, upgraded the engine and removed the WoWification that came with ToA.
I dont get it... both UO and DAOC are EA games... EA dont put their games on Steam they put them on Origin ?