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Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017

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

Moru writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @04:51PM (#446377)

    You really want to run Windows Server 2003 on a computer, even a VM, connected to the Internet?

    The time it takes to get pwned will be measured in milliseconds.

  • (Score: 1) by toddestan on Tuesday December 27 2016, @05:26PM

    by toddestan (4982) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @05:26PM (#446386)

    Presumably the servers are still running right now, and will continue to run for another month or so. I don't know anything about the technical side of the game, but I would assume there's no reason that the servers would have to expose IIS or ASP anything like that to the internet, so lock it down tight with a good firewall and it would probably be okay - at least for a while.