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b0xy  Posts: 314
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Thoughts? Ideas? Comments?
I think it could be awesome to see what some dedicated private developers could do with the game.
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Cydoc  Title: Final Fantasy Vault SM
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it kind of has to a degree with the shards 
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SaiyanOfDarkness  Title: Prince of Saiyans
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There has only been 2 freeshards servers worth anything.
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Vyxar Title: Arbiter Elegantiarum
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I think it could have worked back when daoc had Sanya. I guess it still could but I'm really expecting them to announce a game shutdown every day now...
But anyway, it kind of already happened and worked in with the custom UI stuff. But to actually do it with the game it would take a paradigm shift from the EA/Mythic side to becoming about becoming _the_ best place to play not the _only_ (even though that isn't true with shards) place to play. To that end, server and server performance and stability are magnified and community (where Sanya and VN for that matter come in) becomes vastly more important.
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Vyxar posted:
I think it could have worked back when daoc had Sanya. I guess it still could but I'm really expecting them to announce a game shutdown every day now...
But anyway, it kind of already happened and worked in with the custom UI stuff. But to actually do it with the game it would take a paradigm shift from the EA/Mythic side to becoming about becoming _the_ best place to play not the _only_ (even though that isn't true with shards) place to play. To that end, server and server performance and stability are magnified and community (where Sanya and VN for that matter come in) becomes vastly more important.
You can go drinking anywhere but it's more like why Norm would went to Cheers than just any old bar on the street.
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Windwalkr Title: Camelot Vault Staff
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I would seriously doubt that they would do that, or shut down the game anytime soon either.
DAoC is now like owning a bit of stock in Coke or Pepsi, and collecting dividends on those shares. It's not going to make you rich, certainly not in the short term, but it's basically free money every month. They're not going to just squander that.
Of course no one knows what their break-even point is, but obviously when that's reached it's over. 
I just don't think that the cost of hosting the few remaining servers is anywhere near what they make in return in subs, so I personally think we're safe for a while longer. I think we'll see it coming when they shut down all other servers aside from Ywain, then you really know the end is neigh.
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Votsu Posts: 44
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Windwalkr posted:
I would seriously doubt that they would do that, or shut down the game anytime soon either.
DAoC is now like owning a bit of stock in Coke or Pepsi, and collecting dividends on those shares. It's not going to make you rich, certainly not in the short term, but it's basically free money every month. They're not going to just squander that.
Of course no one knows what their break-even point is, but obviously when that's reached it's over.
I just don't think that the cost of hosting the few remaining servers is anywhere near what they make in return in subs, so I personally think we're safe for a while longer. I think we'll see it coming when they shut down all other servers aside from Ywain, then you really know the end is neigh.
Soon as a few new MMO's are released should take care of the few that are left.GW2,rift,SWGTOR etc etc.
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Tarrgon Posts: 15
Registered: 2002-1-8 10:18:07
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It is open source... Google DOL DAOC.
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Fanglo Title: The Orange Tree Animist
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if it went open source the most immidiate change would be upgraded graphics. I forget the website but there is a guy that has been converting DaoC to the Crysis engine. His version looks just as good as nearly any modern day MMO. The graphics are very beautiful.
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Fanglo posted:
if it went open source the most immidiate change would be upgraded graphics. I forget the website but there is a guy that has been converting DaoC to the Crysis engine. His version looks just as good as nearly any modern day MMO. The graphics are very beautiful.
converting the graphics, for a single user experiences is completely difrent then converting the graphics, for multiplayer + porting all the server side code to the new engine..
and daoc's graphics engine is more then capable of handling brighter, prettier graphics as noted by the many other prettier games and WAR ... that all run the same engine..
mythics art style and the game graphics are a design decision not a limitation in the game engine...
even if daoc was open source, the IP is mythics any changes would be submitted then mythic would choose wether to include them or not...
so youd still be limited to mythics design decisions, like the graphics and art style.
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