my last toon was called MarkJacobs Lookingforgroup and I ran around hib main city begging for money lol.

 

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So I take it you never participate in RvR then....cuz thats just a big massive group raid dude. And in my mind daoc never has been a true PvP game in essence. I think that RvR is something completely different and refreshing that no other mmo seems to want to replicate.

I'm not saying you can't PvP in DAoC, but it's on a much smaller scale than in most other games considered to be PvP games. Meaning your reason for battling other players is for the advancement or defense of your realm, and not individual player gre...nvm I'll just stop there. Point is, it's supposed to be different.

also DAoC for it's short time of good PvE content was pretty good. It was basically a PvE game that offered BGs lvl 30+ and RvR at 50 which provided countless hours of end game content. But the PvE content was far from 'casual' player material, as a casual player may have taken up to a year+ to completely level a toon to 50.


Everything considered, Jacobs was a bad thing for the game in the end, but I will say I am thankful that he helped create one of my favorite MMOs to date. DAoC has by far been my most subscribed to game over the past 10 years, having only a few months breaks when things got stale.

So Thank You Mark Jacobs for helping make this great game. There are a few other choice words that I won't mention about the way I feel you handled DAoC SINCE then. I am glad you are happy doing other things.

Eh...seems too nice..well

In the words of Mrs. Finkle: "Mark Jacobs should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. Would you like a cookie, son?"

 

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LOL. Massive raids = tons of people in a pvp instance. No thanks. Yes, I've participated in massive rvr. Raids =! Rvr. Try again. Jacobs created daoc crafting, that's about his only claim to fame. As the lawyer, he weaseled his way into being in charge. Matt was the real brains.

raids=RvR

many people+area to fight in(nf)+something to fight against that you cannot ultimately do alone=raid
many people+area to fight in(nf)+something to fight against that you cannot ultimately do alone=rvr

raids =! instanced areas
see: any kind of raid in daoc

rvr =! instanced areas
see: any area in which you can do rvr in


Nothing in daoc is instanced minus the task/aurulite dungeons and parts of champion/epic quests.
I define raid as it exists in DAoC, not other shitty games.

I agree with everything you say about Mark Jacobs.

 

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Mythic should have left a single classic server open just to give us a choice.
Even if it was just a hundred people per realm it still would have been better then TOA.

With only 100 per realm total (peak), there would not have been anything close to the numbers in the BGs and Frontiers to keep RvR viable.


The only reason for clustering was to keep the Frontier population high enough to keep RvR viable. While I appreciate the yearning for a Classic server, at this time spreading players over multiple servers is not logical.


Also, Mythic (MJ) slowly ruined the Classicness of the Classic servers so that they were not really Classic. While many did still play toons on Classic all the way up to the demise of Classic, mostly the Classic servers died (were killed by Mythic/MJ) and the population shrunk enough to show that keeping a Classic server alive was not a logical thing for Mythic to do.


The game is down to its final cluster now so it is really a moot point. Even if Mythic had kept a Classic cluster alive and limping along that last Classic server/cluster would have been merged with Ywain by now (to keep Ywain RvR/Frontier population up above critical mass).


Sorry but because of the damage Mythic had been (is still) doing to the game the population was destine to continue to shrink and with the overall population in decline, keeping a Classic server open would not have worked.

 

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Good lord GET OVER IT MAN its a 10 year old video game.


PS its the OP really you on an alt account isnt it?

 

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at the end of classic servers there was 4-6 people logged on each realm at a time. it was pathetic and needed to be put out of its misery.

 

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classic had its shot, it sucked, it died, get over it.

 

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