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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: 2) by JNCF on Monday December 26 2016, @10:17PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Monday December 26 2016, @10:17PM (#446175) Journal

    Some were hilariously epic though.

    ...story time?

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @12:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @12:37AM (#446203)
  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 27 2016, @02:48PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @02:48PM (#446350) Journal

    Oh man I don't know them all as I was never into the game. But we had a shared computer room with two computers and a phone. So I would be on one machine and my brother on the other playing whatever and on the phone with his friend. One wasn't so much epic as it was seriously fucked up and kinda hilarious. Someone had all these rares in a castle. Foods, drinks etc, all of which were neatly placed around as decoration. To make it worse, they spent hundreds of dollars of IRL money on ebay to buy the rares. He was a big confidence trickster and gained the persons confidence which led to them granting permission to enter their home. He waits a few weeks and one day finds the person isn't signed in. So he proceeds to drink and eat every rare he could find. And right near the end the person signs in to find him finishing off their collection. They flip out and ban him but it was too late.

    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:40PM

      by JNCF (4317) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:40PM (#446372) Journal

      Nerds flip out when you eat their rares [youtube.com] (obligatory 30-second Simpsons clip). Personally, I feel like this kind of trickery is one of the most interesting aspects of multiplayer games. I've never actually played Rust, but I've enjoyed the few trap base [youtube.com] videos I've seen (definitely not worth the full 16 minutes of your life, but maybe worth starting if you enjoy seeing people die in virtual traps). I also get how raiding an item stash could seem like a violation to somebody who cared enough to spend hundreds of dollars of real money on their virtual collection in a game where there actually are safeguards in place to prevent people from destroying your collections. Confidence games can be really upsetting to the targets. Oh hey, your trust in other people has just been undermined; good luck making new friends in your escapist cyberworld now, lonely nerd! It reminds me of A Rape in Cyberspace [wikipedia.org], though of course those circumstances are wildly different in a number of ways.

      • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:34PM

        by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:34PM (#446419) Journal

        Yea, That kid made a few people rage quit the game completely. The funny thing about UO was it was worse than the real world in many ways. You could get killed, robbed and completely fucked over with little to no repercussions for the griefing player. So it was pretty hardcore. Asherons call was similar in that the darktide server had a similar setup. Pretty brutal with players camping the fucking life stones slaughtering new players spawned. It was the biggest "fuck you! welcome to the game" I can think of.