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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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I really, really hope that ashes gives the same feelings, and helps us to give/share the same experiences with another gen.
Really hoping that it sucks around long enough for the transition into vr, because that first experience of a vr mmo is totally going to be a memory for life¡ *happy sigh*
Later Asheron's Call which was just engrossing at the time. Never forget finding new lands and just exploring and exploring!
Before and after that, I played Ultima Online. THAT was a great time!!
Alas...you were asking about the first. Xenimus. Oh it was AMAZING when I first found it, but my fascination disappeared very quickly after I found other games. That was back in something like 1999 or 2000 when it was beta. It is somehow still running and getting updates. It's run by a single guy out of his house, if you can believe it...
And the ghosts! Sheep! Housing. Really, I just threw myself into that game. I think I went back four times over the last twenty years and each time I enjoyed bits of it. It is what made me love crafting.
Oh I love the people. Xena Dragon and being one of the Ladies in White and curse tools! The joy of curses has never left me.
Yes the PKs were often just horrible but it never seemed terribly mean spirited to me.
I will never forget running through Teldrassil on my Nelf Priest. Bubbles, lol. I bubbled her continuously, wondering "Is this just showing up on my screen, or is it showing up on all others?" Seriously. Before this, my interaction with other players in any form was LAN parties. So the concept of this, on this large a scale, just amazed me.
Then, there was that first boat ride from Darnassus to Dark Shore. I think I just rode that boat, back and forth, for a couple of hours. I was so amazed to see that you could seamlessly go from one zone to another, and all of a sudden the scope and scale of the game overwhelmed me. I worked in IT, I was a code monkey, so I had some idea of what it took to do this, and I was astounded.
Then I really got to looking at population numbers, and was astounded again.
Then I got invited to join an amazing guild, where they were so patient with me, and explained so many things to me, and I thought to myself "Wow, there's like, a whole new world/life here, how have I missed out on this for so long?"
RP came many years later, and has always been, for me, more situational than pre-scripted. If I see someone walking, rather than riding a mount or running, through a town, I find myself drawn to follow them, to see what story they're playing out.
Some of these things still exist in parts and pieces in different games; I am hopeful that Ashes will bring many of these things back together for me, in one game. Ah, nostalgia, thy name is hope, now.
It was frustrating in many ways, the crafting system, while one of the best I have come across, made me pull my hair out on many occasions, yet still drove me to spend hours upon hours slotting mats in order to find the perfect recipe for +2/+1 Medium armour pieces, something I never quite achieved to my eternal chagrin, yet never stopped trying.
After over a year of self-enforced guildlessness during which I made many good friends, one of whom I play with daily still, though now on BDO, I relented and joined a fantastic guild named Riders on the Storm, rising through the ranks to eventually become its leader, but later leaving to form a guild of my own with the above mentioned friend, Sara, who I love dearly and consider one of my closest friends even though we have never met and live 3000 miles apart.
The memories of Ryzom are and will always be my fondest of the MMO worlds, its true what they say; there is nothing as good as your first time
The Lazy Peon's reaction whenever he runs into spiders is among my favorite moments on his channel.
My first introduction to the MMO was seeing Runscape on a fellow students PC in the days of dailup internet. I was fascinated by the knowledge of seeing player characters from around the world intermingling and witnessing a moment of vast interaction, that was mind blowing at the time.
I personally was introduced to WoW vanilla by my nephews account and then no long after purchased and began my journey as 1 of only a handful of Night Elf Balance Druids as they were not deemed end tier quality, but i enjoyed the underdog status and challenge to make it work.
Entangling roots only worked outdoors then.
It was probably Late Wow Vanilla and the hours and days just melted in that game during that time. I never even raided that hard if at all, just made friends and did whatever we could to help each other.
Only managed a couple of expansion afterwards and then became disfranchised.
I suppose that's where my nostalgia bug sits as seeing what WoW has become and the behavior to players by the developers makes me sick.
Anyway the first moment after creating a character and loading in will always be that moment for me.
I mean Club Penguin was a close second though..
You didn't know who you could trust because anybody can attack you at any time and take all your stuff. The rush of a red player walking by, stopping... then you both know its going down. Most of the time if you lost the red player would loot you then find you later and give your stuff back if you put up a good fight. Sometimes you were just SOL because you decided to bring your best gear...