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[Last Hearth]

Do you ever wonder what became of MMOs that you spend a lot of time in and left years ago?
This guy joined one that's been dead for years.

 

[IAmRei]

few days ago, I replay Ragnarok Online in private server, kind of nostalgic. but I wish it become single player instead.

 

[mèx]

I wonder if the first Guild Wars has an active PvE community currently. I know that people still gather up for PvP. Maybe I will login and check one of these days.

 

[DAHGAMING]

I wonder if the first Guild Wars has an active PvE community currently. I know that people still gather up for PvP. Maybe I will login and check one of these days.

I logged into my old GW character 1-2yrs ago and was surprised how many people there was online, it wasnt packed like before but theres still people that play.

 

[forsakkenSoul]

Good video, and I didn't even know this game existed. It's also nice that the video has reached 1.5 million views in just over a week. It's likely that this has given the game a lot of new players, which is great to see.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Watching a few videos scratches that occasional itch to check back on all those MMOs I used to haunt.

 

[Generic]

Do you ever wonder what became of MMOs that you spend a lot of time in and left years ago?
This guy joined one that's been dead for years.

Wow, I used to play this game back in 2003 with a shitty internet.

The memories...

 

[ReyBrujo]

Never played an MMO but played GenesisMUD and return for 5-7 days during Xmas just to check how the game is doing and to chat with friends still playing daily. About a decade or so ago they created a special garden where they put statues of deceased players with the description of their characters and where you can read stories posted by other players. Even at its peak the game never got 500 concurrent players so many got to knew each other pretty well. Hard to imagine doing something like that in multi-million player MMOs. Game dropped to <10 concurrent players in 2018 or 2019, thought it would die, but pandemic created a bubble of people wanting to experiment new things, now it gets around 30 concurrent players which is about the average it had when I stopped playing back in 2010 or so.

 

[Trunx81]

The comment section is wild! Especially the story about that one guy who met his wife in 4th grade during playing the game until they met for the first time when they were 18 and married shortly after that.

Amusing.

 

[Morpork]

Oh wow, I'm so glad to see this. Dark Ages was my first MMO and was very special to me. I made a lot of friends on there, some of which I still contact every now and then. We would sometimes log off the game, close the dial up Internet and then call on the land line long distance (mostly to the US with me in Ireland) and just chat away. The phone bill was so giant one time my mam nearly killed me.

It's a little embarrassing but I even fell in love with someone I met through the game. I've never played another game that had such a great sense of community to this day. Since those systems are all player run, it's easy to feel really embbeded into the world. My main was a priest (pure) so I had the ability to perform wedding ceremonies. Marrying two of my best friends was a great memory.

The game is called Dark Ages but it was the Golden Age of MMO gaming for me!
Sorry for the soppy post, Amusing.

 

[nkarafo]

I have two WoW private servers myself, one for Wrath of the Lich King and one for Cataclysm. I played a lot in both servers, trying to get everything i had on retail and even making my own guilds, etc. It was easy to do as an admin

I sometimes load them for the nostalgia. Roaming alone with nothing but NPCs feels very bittersweet when i remember all the people in the main cities and all of the man hours i spent on retail.

 

[Last Hearth]

Oh wow, I'm so glad to see this. Dark Ages was my first MMO and was very special to me. I made a lot of friends on there, some of which I still contact every now and then. We would sometimes log off the game, close the dial up Internet and then call on the land line long distance (mostly to the US with me in Ireland) and just chat away. The phone bill was so giant one time my mam nearly killed me.

It's a little embarrassing but I even fell in love with someone I met through the game. I've never played another game that had such a great sense of community to this day. Since those systems are all player run, it's easy to feel really embbeded into the world. My main was a priest (pure) so I had the ability to perform wedding ceremonies. Marrying two of my best friends was a great memory.

The game is called Dark Ages but it was the Golden Age of MMO gaming for me!
Sorry for the soppy post, Amusing.

Based on the comments the population of the game took a huge jump after the video was released, a lot of old timers came back to check it out and some new players were inspired to try it out.

 

[John Bilbo]

I think I'll try it out.

 

[Plies]

I love this kind of ting.

 

[grvg]

It does

I wonder if the first Guild Wars has an active PvE community currently. I know that people still gather up for PvP. Maybe I will login and check one of these days.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

I logged into my old GW character 1-2yrs ago and was surprised how many people there was online, it wasnt packed like before but theres still people that play.

Wanted to do the same. Last time i logged in, it was like 2018, and still plenty of people in Spamadan selling shit, but outside of that, there was very little amount of players. I hear people are still speed running FoW and UW, tho. God damn i miss a game like this. Zero mtx, zero time gating, shitload of pve and pvp content. You just don't get games likes these nowadays.