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posted by on Monday December 26 2016, @05:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-good-things-come-to-an-end dept.

Asheron's Call is an old and beloved game. Many current MMO's including WoW still have not been able to reproduce many of the systems created by Asheron's Call and many players haven't even seen them yet. It really deserves a place up with all the other Good Old Games.

"The allegiance system, where players swear fealty to each other, gave high levels a reason to seek new players. New players gave the person they swore allegiance to experience without losing any themselves, and this in turn would be passed up from the bottom of the pyramid to the top."

Seamless gigantic *handcrafted* world where you can run around without zoning. No randomly created monotone landscape. No instancing to separate you from your friends in dungeons.

Unfortunately, Turbine, Inc. has set a date for closing the Asheron's Call I and II servers. In the past they had mentioned releasing the server code so players could run their own servers, but that is apparently no longer an option. It is currently getting requests for remastering on Good Old Games.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by JNCF on Monday December 26 2016, @10:13PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Monday December 26 2016, @10:13PM (#446173) Journal

    Thank you for your constructive criticism of all of humanity's collective efforts from the beginning of recorded history up to the present day. Do you have any alternative place to build things? I'm only seeing sand around here.

    "Time crystals" [soylentnews.org] might be a valid response, but pics or it didn't happen.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @11:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @11:58PM (#446195)

    Building sandcastles is a waste of effort UNLESS you get paid to build sandcastles, then it becomes a completely valid business. For you see, according to assholes, only money matters.

    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Tuesday December 27 2016, @12:14AM

      by JNCF (4317) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @12:14AM (#446198) Journal

      Because money isn't ephemeral.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @12:31AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @12:31AM (#446202)

        Whether money is ephemeral is of no consequence. Money is how the score is counted, and if you're not a high-scoring winner, then you're a loser.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @10:27PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @10:27PM (#446487)

          If money is how you keep score in life then you've already lost.