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moonarchia

moonarchia

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Byr said:
Saying that Shadowbane cratered is a little re-writting of history. The game had a 10+ year lifespan and was successful enough to see 2 expansions made for it. It was more successful than 99% of MMOs made.
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99% are like Pantheon, AoC, and MnM, so that's a fairly low bar.
 
Kuro

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Byr said:
Saying that Shadowbane cratered is a little re-writting of history. The game had a long lifespan and was successful enough to see 2 expansions made for it. It was more successful than 99% of MMOs made.
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Plus they got to genocide the bird people, something I valiantly attempted in the Karanas but failed
 
mkopec

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Yeah me and my brother played Shadowbane YEARS after the disaster of release and SB exe crashes. Shit was fun as hell. It was mostly the chinese vs everyone else.
 
Cybsled

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Byr said:
Saying that Shadowbane cratered is a little re-writting of history. The game had a long lifespan and was successful enough to see 2 expansions made for it. It was more successful than 99% of MMOs made.
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It was functionally dead in the western market - the Chinese market from what I recall was the only thing really keeping the game alive. Most of the western servers were ghost towns months after release. I'm sure they probably consolidated/closed down shit to concentrate the remaining playerbase - I think me and my guild friends played a bit of City of Heroes after the Death server's population cratered and no one wanted to rebuild the cities after the whole server vs lords of death crap.
 
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Byr

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Cybsled said:
It was functionally dead in the western market - the Chinese market from what I recall was the only thing really keeping the game alive. Most of the western servers were ghost towns months after release. I'm sure they probably consolidated/closed down shit to concentrate the remaining playerbase - I think me and my guild friends played a bit of City of Heroes after the Death server's population cratered and no one wanted to rebuild the cities after the whole server vs lords of death crap.
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With multiple new rounds of servers that went up, the Western population kept a handful populated at all times. One of the original servers stayed up and populated the entire way through the game but there were always 4 or 5 you could play on.
 
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