Last June, Holy Fire Games (a three-person development team) announced this “procedural sandbox” MMO and made some headlines by selling permanent access to the testing content up through launch. Remember Forsaken Legends? Probably not, but maybe you do. So I’m going to justify that effort by talking about it here.
A week ago I was racking my brain trying to remember the name of this game, since we hadn’t heard about it for a while, and it took me far too long to track it down. Usually in this column I’ll be looking at older live MMOs, but let’s change things up for a hot minute and talk about a game still in development. This editor has been receiving updates since its inception. One of the interesting additions to the game in the past year was the Scenographic Editor, which allowed players to create their own landscape scenes and publish them in the game for others to ooh and ahh over. Regular (if small) patches have been released over the past year, and events are pretty common ( there’s even one going on right now in May).ĭespite the game’s continued survival, there have been some complaints by players about Ryzom’s stability, its limiting free-to-play business model, and a lower population. Oh, it might not be the default go-to MMO for most players, but it definitely has a dedicated playerbase and an active development schedule. The game went open source back in 2010 to be developed by the community, with additional guidance and support from Winch Gate Property Ltd.Ĭontinuing with the theme of Steam, Ryzom debuted on Valve’s platform as a F2P title a year ago and has been doing OK for itself ever since. This beautiful and alien French MMO has been trucking along for a rocky but interesting 12 years now. So it has another 20 years to go, I think.” This one only went officially live back in 2010. There are older MMOs out there still running. In late 2016, Smart addressed the game’s existence, saying, “The game is self-sustaining in that we don’t have to do much to keep it running and active for those playing it. This pack included the playable Ourobani race, a Warden companion class, flying mounts, and a streamlined leveling experience.
Last year a $10 expansion pack, Rise of the Ourobani, was released. That June, Smart rose to the game’s defense, saying that “review bombers” would be banned from the community. It’s a World of Warcraft clone that’s been around a while now, not really shaking anything up but apparently doing enough traffic to warrant its own existence.Īlganon made the jump onto Steam in the spring of 2016, although it didn’t seem to benefit the free-to-play MMO much, as it was peppered with strongly negative reviews. Probably best known as “The other MMO that’s being run by Internet Warlord Derek Smart,” Alganon has kept a very low profile yet is still in operation. Have suggestions for future installments in this series? That’s what the comments are for, brah. In today’s post, we’re going to see what’s going on (if anything) with Alganon, Ryzom, and Forsaken Legends, three titles that haven’t been in the spotlight for a while.
#Ryzom tracker series
The response back in March to the first column in this series was positive enough that it warranted a follow-up with a different trilogy of games to investigate. Well, that’s what I’m here for, gentle readers. Ever find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to so-and-so? We never hear about that MMO in the news any more! Is it still running? Does it still have a loyal community? How will I find out about these things if I am too lazy to Google it?”
0 kommentar(er)
