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Greetings!

Greetings all! My name is Aggelos! I am the founder of The Dungeon Crawler Network a website for podcasting about MMORPGs.

A little history about myself at the age of 16 (I'm 30 now), I was gifted my first MMORPG to play with a friend that I met while on a FPS competitive team. That game was Ultima Online. This game is what hooked me into the MMO genre and after a few years of playing that game I moved onto Dark Age of Camelot which I played for the next 4 years (my second longest running MMO) until picking up World of Warcraft which I played for 7-8 years off and on (more on then off) and even raided as a member of a US Top 25 Raiding Guild during Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm expansions. I prefer “Dark Fantasy” themed RPGs as a rule for my gaming preferences.

I became interested in podcasting while following the development of Guild Wars 2. Having “guest hosted” on several podcasts, including ones such as Ascendents of Ascalon. When The Elder Scrolls Online was announced, I began heavily following this MMORPG due to his love of The Elder Scrolls series. This love of the lore and game is what drove me to start, Tales of Tamriel, with my wife, Thais. This was my first step into hosting my own podcast and eventually developed The Dungeon Crawler Network alongside Thais as a place to podcast about the RPGs that we love so much.

While I still love TESO (mostly for the lore of the world), I have become increasingly discouraged with the current AAA MMORPG genre. Everything I see is B2P/F2P crap where developers are less interested in creating interesting content for the game and instead trying to sell me that same horse mount with a different skin for another $30.

I am a raider at heart. I love the coordination of getting a group of people together and tackling a challenge together. I do enjoy PvP in the sense of a battleground type of thing or FFA open world PvP with consequences like in Ultima Online. I am intrigued with a sandbox type game as well because as I am getting older and the raiding scene has left me behind due to job and family concerns I have been more and more looking for a world I can "live in" and build a community for hence why I created DCN as a way to talk about the games I love and enjoy games with my friends.

Comments

  • Welcome! Link to podcast?
  • Greetings JuliusMagni and thank you for the warm welcome! I wont link directly to it here because we have no show dedicated to this game (which I just found out about) but that doesn't preclude that we may run an episode about it as more information is released :) Searching Dungeon Crawler Network on pretty much any major platform and you'll find us :)

    Again, thank you for the warm welcome!
  • Telling me the name and linking it are identical one just requires me to do more work ^_^
  • Yeah this is true but I don't ever link any of our own work without permission of the moderators to respect their position and not seem overly self promotive. Also, because we don't have anything specifically Ashes of Creation related I would feel off linking any work we did. We are going to talk about Ashes in one of our upcoming podcasts and then with the moderators permission I will gladly post but at least with only giving a name the ONUS is on the individual to look if they so desire without me directly self promoting. DCN is part of who I am as a person so its fitting to throw it in my background :)
  • Welcome Aggelos! Happy to have you here :)
  • [quote quote=691]Welcome Aggelos! Happy to have you here <img alt="?" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f642.svg" />

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    Thank you!
  • What an awesome intro @Aggelos . My apologies for such a late, formal welcome to the Ashes Community <3
  • @Aggelos, even though I've said this before a few times. Love your guys' videos :)
  • Aggelos, keep making those podcasts!!!  Love them, need them, want them.  Keep up the great work!!!
  • Welcome @Aggelos! This is a awesome growing community. Having gaming vets like you around will definitely make it even better! 
  • Haha @Belewyn Thank you! Didn't know that Ashes was going to had a Necromancer class because that is some top tier post necroing right there haha! Just kidding welcome threads never truly necro!

    Thank you @lexmax and @Sintu! I guess when I wrote this we didnt have my From The Ashes show but I guess we do now! Woot!

    Thanks @Mazikar :D Been MMO gaming for a LONG LONG time and MMOs are my true love in gaming.


  • Welcome to the community and I am 15 years old and this will be my first time diving into MMORPG's, I have started to play Black Desert Online and enjoyed so far, I needed something to play and get used to as we still have another 2 years until its released to the public! :sunglasses:

  • Aggelos said:
    Greetings all! My name is Aggelos! I am the founder of The Dungeon Crawler Network a website for podcasting about MMORPGs.

    A little history about myself at the age of 16 (I'm 30 now), I was gifted my first MMORPG to play with a friend that I met while on a FPS competitive team. That game was Ultima Online. This game is what hooked me into the MMO genre and after a few years of playing that game I moved onto Dark Age of Camelot which I played for the next 4 years (my second longest running MMO) until picking up World of Warcraft which I played for 7-8 years off and on (more on then off) and even raided as a member of a US Top 25 Raiding Guild during Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm expansions. I prefer “Dark Fantasy” themed RPGs as a rule for my gaming preferences.

    I became interested in podcasting while following the development of Guild Wars 2. Having “guest hosted” on several podcasts, including ones such as Ascendents of Ascalon. When The Elder Scrolls Online was announced, I began heavily following this MMORPG due to his love of The Elder Scrolls series. This love of the lore and game is what drove me to start, Tales of Tamriel, with my wife, Thais. This was my first step into hosting my own podcast and eventually developed The Dungeon Crawler Network alongside Thais as a place to podcast about the RPGs that we love so much.

    While I still love TESO (mostly for the lore of the world), I have become increasingly discouraged with the current AAA MMORPG genre. Everything I see is B2P/F2P crap where developers are less interested in creating interesting content for the game and instead trying to sell me that same horse mount with a different skin for another $30.

    I am a raider at heart. I love the coordination of getting a group of people together and tackling a challenge together. I do enjoy PvP in the sense of a battleground type of thing or FFA open world PvP with consequences like in Ultima Online. I am intrigued with a sandbox type game as well because as I am getting older and the raiding scene has left me behind due to job and family concerns I have been more and more looking for a world I can "live in" and build a community for hence why I created DCN as a way to talk about the games I love and enjoy games with my friends.
    Welcome! @Aggelos
    good to have you and the DCN crew here, 
  • Haha thanks @Shunex
  • Welcome to the community. Hope you have fun on the forum.
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