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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, @05:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @05:00PM (#446381)

    Many virtual machine solutions support Windows Server 2003. So I'd agree it's not worth rewriting.

    What problem does a virtual machine solve? A virtual machine on the network is no more secure than a physical machine. If it's hardware compatibility... well, they still have their old physical machines, and they can probably buy more on the used market.

    I'll also note that virtual machines are less performant than physical ones, so you'll need more hardware to do this (assuming you even can).