I just came back today...my sixth time. Every time i try another game out i get sick of it pretty quick and come back.


I guess i left all those times because my friends have moved on, no solo game for visi's anywhere and i feel the urge to try new games even though i know i wont be satisfied.


I came back because i was playing WoW and got to 74 and was thinking one night...damn i hate this game, its boring, the pvp is horrid and questing is god awfull. Ive played about all MMO's currently out and nothing compares.


Mordred has my greatest memories, and i wish that it would be revived but it wont. I'll just hang around until i feel like trying something else again.


BTW i guess i didnt miss much in my 5-6 month absence. My temp still seems up to par

 

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Because I still enjoy DAOC. That's enough of a reason for me to keep playing.

 

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Aye,


I have played Daark Age since it first came out... After 2003-04 I always told myself I would find a new game that gave me that same feeling. That same connection. Sadly to date I never have...


I have been pissed off, mad and bored in Dark Age so it's never been perfect. Many times a good friend would leave and I'd tell myself, okay now I gone for good, but always managed to come back.


I too, went to WoW and joined in the millions of players over there. I leveled to 80, and then did the dungeon raid thing. It quickly felt as if I was logging into a part time job... The player community should have been amazing with millions of customers, yet it sucked. And, I mean truly sucked usually.


Dark Age stands so much higher than anyother MMO I have ever played. It's not that good. It's not addictive, but there's something about it I just can't describe that takes hold of you. The old school community was just so damned good that even now with only a tiny fraction of it remaining, I still find myself smiling at times.


I can't tell today's players what exactly held that spark, but Dark Age was a once in a life time experience back then. Amazingly that echo still softly reverbarates in the game even now. Mythic, then later EA never seemed to understand just what DAoC meant to the player base because if they did they'd have torn hell of it's hinges keeping the old girl afloat much better than they have.


I will always hold out some faint hope that they will realize that DAoC is worth putting some time back into.

As a roleplayer its easy for me.

Things do frustrate me.

But as long as there is some one or something to defend. I will never quit the game again.


I miss it to much.

 

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Similar story here. I tried a few other MMOs and the only one I could tolerate for even a few months was WAR because it was vaguely similar to DAOC. I'm just hanging around DAOC until the next new game(s) that interest me come out then I plan to quit DAOC for good (famous last words, I know). While I still love DAOC's RvR, it just requires too much time investment if you want to have consistent fun. I don't want to spend an hour trying to get into a decent group, waiting for all the required classes to be found, having half the group rage log after the first run, waiting another hour to refill, etc. I just want to jump in and have some casual fun for an hour or two. The next MMO that lets me do that without making end game all about gear grinding will be my new home for years.

 

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Have you tried thid/molvik? When all else fails I get on my thid shade and go and make some kills, or log on my BM/eld and play with friends. No perfect temps/group set ups needed.

 

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Aye,


I too hate the lets wait till we have perfection then watch them all log off in anger a minute later... Where's players backbones at these days..? Get rolled get pissed off and go roll them. LOL..!


Here's one example of what DAoC is about. A year ago a few friends of mine decided that we'd go out and take a tower for kicks. We had a bunch of siege that we didn't want to keep or take up space in vaults.


We run out to Alb. Take a tower and decide, hell, we'll take another. Then another. We got so good at taking towers that night it was like working on an assembly line lol... We then took a keep. Then we opened port. Still just for kicks. Our 15 minute little goof off turned into a 6 hour run for relics with half the realm joining in...


A level 43 Skald in the /BG asked who got the relic raid going and we all just said, " No idea : ) " That's what makes DAoC so special compared to other MMO's in my opinion... A bunch of bored friends can turn goofing off into a relic raid. I have never found that in other games to date... Hell you can't even get people in WoW to attack a town even with offers to pay them lol...

I am pretty sure that game will be Guild Wars 2 Meddy. I'll be sure to come back and let you know when I am sure because I am looking forward to seeing a lot of old school DAoCers who've gone into casual mode hanging out there.

and as for the reasons I don't play anymore I'll just quote the master again from another thread.

 

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Yeah I've been doing the BGs as much or more than NF in recent months because it's easy to just jump in and have a little fun and people will actually group you even though they haven't known you for 9 years unlike in NF. Mythic partly killed my BG fun though with their spellcrafting nerf.

 

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Yeah, that nerf was uncalled for. I had two toons come out of it OK (sorc and NS) and one that was in a fixable state (eld). Regs still have temps, mids still hump ck (I play mostly thid, dont care for Molvik as much) and newbs still get wtfpwnt. Not sure what they thought they were accomplishing with the nerf.

Most nerfs you can at least see where they're coming from if you try to be objective. This one, it seems like they kicked the resident population in the junk for the sake of people who were just passing through before, and continue to just pass through.

 

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