Ashes of Creation

Lunis said:

The most interesting part is hearing the stories from Archeage. Steven sounds like your typical megalomaniacal guild leader from back in the day, trying to control the entire server.

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Pretty much. I played on the same server as him. His guild was called The White Order (I remember some players troll reported his guild name, claiming he was running a white supremacist guild and the name was evidence of that lol).

Archeage was a faction system, although you could still PK inside your faction. There was the west faction, east faction, and the pirate faction. He was west faction. He basically put together a really powerful guild, but he basically tried to run the entire west faction which didn't sit well with some people in the western faction. Other players got sick of that and went pirate. He HATED the pirate faction because he felt they didn't have enough downsides and the pirates spent a lot of time griefing his guild. He was also known back then as a swiper, because Archeage was a massive pay-to-win game - I remember a hilarious video someone posted where they took the American Psycho business card scene, but replaced it with players on the server showing off their credit cards and Sorcerer (Steven's char) is the ultimate credit card at the end. It may still be out there on Youtube somewhere, although I've never been able to find it again.

Eventually the east faction, pirate faction, and some elements of the west faction decided to team up and try to drive him off the server. We sieged his castle while the pirates and renegade west factions also harassed and prevented reinforcements. Eventually he quit and without a unifying badguy, the alliance fell apart and people started to stop playing on the server (including my guild).

I was on kyrios as well, although I quit before all that drama when they released the thunderstuck trees in the store you could buy after I'd been farming them. Such a good game ruined by terrible monetization and direction. I played a bunch of Unchained later on, but that just shifted the P2W from in game to RMT (which allegedly the devs were in on).

Was PDX on that server? If so, I guess we probably crossed paths. Although I quit not too long after the sieging castles shit started because it was retarded.

Uriel said:

I was on kyrios as well, although I quit before all that drama when they released the thunderstuck trees in the store you could buy after I'd been farming them. Such a good game ruined by terrible monetization and direction. I played a bunch of Unchained later on, but that just shifted the P2W from in game to RMT (which allegedly the devs were in on).

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The western devs introduced a lot of "balance" decisions that ended up just being monetization schemes. Like when they "normalized" the speed of the sports cars. Before, gravity could help you accelerate faster and you maintained momentum. The western devs basically put a hard speed cap on the cars that significantly slowed them down...then months later introduced a new car that could travel faster than the nerfed cars. It was such blatant monetization bullshit.

And ya Gravel. Tuco and I think a few other board people played in the guild.

Not that it really matters to me but am I understanding it correctly that some body of investors or board is going to attempt to continue the development of the game? If so, I would consider selling it to someone. I'm not sure how close they are to delivering anything worthwhile but it's something for someone to continue possibly.

Gravel said:

Was PDX on that server? If so, I guess we probably crossed paths. Although I quit not too long after the sieging castles shit started because it was retarded.

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PRX and yes.

Cinge said:

PRX and yes.

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I only joined it for that one game, and because we didn't have an FoH guild for some reason. I blame Tuco for us all joining them, even though I don't remember the series of events whatsoever.

Can't always have the luck of there being a Mistwalkers chapter

Gravel said:

I only joined it for that one game, and because we didn't have an FoH guild for some reason. I blame Tuco for us all joining them, even though I don't remember the series of events whatsoever.

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I had fun but eventually the monetization and p2w drove me away. I remember being so excited for my farmhouse, just so I could plant my own stuff. Or the aspect of try-to-be-secret tree farms hidden away and the pvp around them when it came time to harvest.

Muligan said:

Not that it really matters to me but am I understanding it correctly that some body of investors or board is going to attempt to continue the development of the game? If so, I would consider selling it to someone. I'm not sure how close they are to delivering anything worthwhile but it's something for someone to continue possibly.

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From reading the start of the lawsuit, it seems some how Sharif is the only person with the login info for the repo/server infra, its gonna be a mess either way whenever they get the info, I wouldn't hold my breath on any kind of "game" that will be created out of its skeleton.

Folanlron said:

From reading the start of the lawsuit, it seems some how Sharif is the only person with the login info for the repo/server infra, its gonna be a mess either way whenever they get the info, I wouldn't hold my breath on any kind of "game" that will be created out of its skeleton.

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Restraining order was already issued; account info has been handled over(Reddit/server/others). Also technically AoC has been running this entire time.