Dark Age of Camelot

Looked at population over the weekend (more to see grab bag in case they mentioned Origins) and was kind of shocked to see the US population in the 500's. This morning its about 50 per cluster. Um, with the addition of taxes now being charged, it seems Mythic is purposely trying to kill DAoC. May have to break down and get WAR in 6 months or so, since Age of Crap kinda ruined my thoughts on ever getting an MMO at release.

I think its safe to say this game is on its last breath, it was amazing while it lasted, but its outdated, and people have just moved on, and new players arent going to be coming in with a low population.

Supposedly theirs this "origin server" that might bring players back, we can only hope so, but im not going to hold my breath on it.

Fantastic game though, I pity anyone who never got the chance to play this game in its primetime.

Well, if DAoC does die, I'll have nothing to go back to or play.  I've tried war and it's not for me.  I guess I'll just hang back in the shadows and watch the genre move along and perhaps I'll jump out everny now and again to see how it is.

Originally posted by Illius

Well, if DAoC does die, I'll have nothing to go back to or play.  I've tried war and it's not for me.  I guess I'll just hang back in the shadows and watch the genre move along and perhaps I'll jump out everny now and again to see how it is.

I bet you played an infiltrator, shadowblade or nightshade.

Sad to see it go, I played it when it first came out and then again on the classic servers. Eh, hopefully they will do something with the license to bring people back. With the population as it stands now, theres little hope of seeing anyone with all the different expansions.

I suppose I did play a few of those classes.  I do have a 50 nightshade as well as a 50 Shadowblade.  Toward the end when I last played I was mostly on my dwarf WARRIOR!!!  I got him to look exactly how I wanted, got all the armor exactly the way I wanted.  The CL sword was kick ass.  I especially ejoyed butchering Albion players... damn nostalgia... I'm getting all misty eyed.

I still have a sliver of hope for Origins.  Not quite sure if it's misguided hope at this point.

i would come back if they did the origins, and there are other players around

I think at this point everyone is looking at the population and waiting for "The Savior Server" to see if people play.  I have an odd feeling that there are going to be a ton (give or take a few pounds) of people who will not play until they see a high population.  The old "I'll play if other people play" approach.  So unless a few hundred people jump on it as soon as it is released it might fail.  Sadly the whiners and greifers rule the forums and "word of mouth" of the MMO genre so once there is even a hint that Origins might not be as populated as we all hope it will be there will be rampant stories of how is sucks and how "they" ruined it, etc. 

So my advice is, if you liked DAoC and would like to see it have another run at the glory of the "old days", you better grab your family and friends and re-up your accounts and log on Origins the second it drops... and stay logged on 24-7 so the "I'll play if others do" people see a decent population.  Oh, and I'll see you there.

At least they are doing it the way the game first started, choose a realm and stay there. One server and one realm. It will be nice to be able to play in all the original areas and OF with all the new stuff in place. I really missed going out with my Sorcerer and charming an ice giant in OF and then parking it in front of Camelot just for pure reactions.

What they should do is get rid of all the clusters and just do a merge of the TOA stuff on one server and the Classic stuff on another. Maybe a third for the origins (if).

They've merged all the classic servers a long time ago, the toa servers have been thrown together into 4 separate clusters.  I'm pretty sure they can cobble them together into 2 if not even 1 solid cluster.

Its sad really, I really miss those old grouping days where you just got together to grind for hours,raid and such.  it was enjoyable yes it may have been long but you got to know people that way. Thats what I loved about DA plus it was my first MMO ever and I just fell in love with it to start.

I've made many....many attempts to go back to the game but I just can't do it, its not the same. They've added so much, and have fixed what wasn't broken. Call me old fashion but I rather liked the olden days of the game before ToA.

I have WAR now but