open letter to FC for old AO

[Phante]

dear fc,

what would it take for you to open an server with the very first version of AO? 2001 version of AO with some bug fixes. i bet that you will have more players than today.


i would play it. any1 else?

[metaluv]

+1

I would actually pay for ao again if this happened, rather than farming creds for grace

[haxi]

So no perks, no research, no AI / SL etc. Why not just play froob and not participate in Notum Wars? Seems to be pretty much the same thing unless you want the old gui or some other esoteric switch.

[Gimpynoob]

So no perks, no research, no AI / SL etc. Why not just play froob and not participate in Notum Wars? Seems to be pretty much the same thing unless you want the old gui or some other esoteric switch.

Because the original AO had coherent gameplay that does not exist anymore, even for froobs, and because people playing on that server would not have to put up with lazy froob haters, kill-stealing trolls or idiotic OP "gnaker gods".

A bug free original version would quickly surpass the existing game in popularity. And with updated graphics it would probably start to show on a few top 10 MMORPG lists.

[Difs]

Yus, game started in a backyard, subway in old athen, damage when you fall and only 2 buttons to push (q to attack and a special attack if you are lucky)
Sounds like a game only you would play it

[Difs]

Also if you put more armor on you or carry lots of bags, you become "heavy" and move slower

[Gimpynoob]

Yus, game started in a backyard, subway in old athen, damage when you fall and only 2 buttons to push (q to attack and a special attack if you are lucky)
Sounds like a game only you would play it

Because the game now is so different.

Now we start in "whatever it's called" playfield and leave in less than a minute. Go to another playfield called "War Academy" followed by similar playfields with different names but the same "gameplay" requiring 0 buttons to be pressed. After reaching the intended level, equip toon with gear from froob mules. When the toon is "ready", start playing the game by still pressing 2 "COMPLETELY DIFFERENT" buttons, one to discharge 3 specials and another to start the perk chain queue you have learned to optimize from your frien... I mean, with the experience that comes from years of playing the toon. Much more better now, amirite? That must be the reason why AO's population is so different from years past.

[Cratertina]

What is stoping you from taking shortcut out of newbie area to backyards and playing from there only using old gear?

[Forz]

dear fc,

what would it take for you to open an server with the very first version of AO? 2001 version of AO with some bug fixes. i bet that you will have more players than today.


i would play it. any1 else?

Sadap and come back asap! n00by <3

[Le-Quack]

bump

[Caloss2]

Because the original AO had coherent gameplay that does not exist anymore, even for froobs, and because people playing on that server would not have to put up with lazy froob haters, kill-stealing trolls or idiotic OP "gnaker gods".

A bug free original version would quickly surpass the existing game in popularity. And with updated graphics it would probably start to show on a few top 10 MMORPG lists.

You've forgotten how bug ridden unbalanced and broken AO was at launch, nevermind how downright ruthless people were in the early days.
http://nanoclan.com/dragonfly/

[Infamine]

Well even with bugs and Dragonfly (and the others...) the 2001 game was so much more enjoyable and fun to play, but, i don't think opening a 2001 server would turn back the time, it's not the same player anymore, not the same goals, and people won't like to spend days to level the way it was done (claw camp, shade camp, ninjas, single missions in teams, ...)

[Caloss2]

Well even with bugs and Dragonfly (and the others...) the 2001 game was so much more enjoyable and fun to play, but, i don't think opening a 2001 server would turn back the time, it's not the same player anymore, not the same goals, and people won't like to spend days to level the way it was done (claw camp, shade camp, ninjas, single missions in teams, ...)

And we are let's face it, looking at old AO through nostalgia-glasses; I would like to 15 years younger too heh, the MIT crowd that used to play, well their off running NASA etc now heh.

[Gimpynoob]

You've forgotten how bug ridden unbalanced and broken AO was at launch, nevermind how downright ruthless people were in the early days.
http://nanoclan.com/dragonfly/

Please read the 2nd paragraph of my post, thank you.

As for unbalanced, it is more unbalanced now. I mean, we have battlestations where leveling toons equipped with random crap go to "payvaypay" against twinks equipped with the best possible gear and they call it PvP. We have players hexalogging endgame equipped toons to do team content by themselves and sell loot and they call it a MMO. What balance is there now?

While I would by far prefer to see the existing game fixed than a relaunch of the original game, but at least the original game was a MMORPG. AO, as it is now, is FUBAR.

[Caloss2]

Please read the 2nd paragraph of my post, thank you.

The second sentence ?

A bug free original version would quickly surpass the existing game in popularity. And with updated graphics it would probably start to show on a few top 10 MMORPG lists.

That at best is a statement of hope, it certainly has nothing evidential to back it up, or is there an example of where re-launching a game in a backwards direction has revitalized that game ?

[Infamine]

And we are let's face it, looking at old AO through nostalgia-glasses; I would like to 15 years younger too heh, the MIT crowd that used to play, well their off running NASA etc now heh.

Yeh true, looks more like nostalgia, as for balance, 2001 pvp was more unbalanced, we'll all be enforcers =P

[Phante]

with FC balance lacked and will lack for rest of game's days. maybe balance will come if the game will be bought by someone else...

from what i have seen on forums and also valid for this thread for each suggestion there is 3 to 1 against then pro however everyone is complaining about how bad the game is yet no one agrees with any change in any direction...

my suggestion was NOT to replace this existing game but to open an new server but with old content similar to old rubika and atlantean and forgot german server with the very same items that existed at the beginning. only improvement bug free and no multiboxing.

[Phante]

Sadap and come back asap! n00by <3

i did and you ignored my messages ! now i rage quit again because of you!

[drainbamage]

with FC balance lacked and will lack for rest of game's days. maybe balance will come if the game will be bought by someone else...

Who is going to buy an old dead MMO?

from what i have seen on forums and also valid for this thread for each suggestion there is 3 to 1 against then pro however everyone is complaining about how bad the game is yet no one agrees with any change in any direction...

Probably because most of the suggestions on this forum are terrible, as is this one.

[Phante]

Who is going to buy an old dead MMO?


Probably because most of the suggestions on this forum are terrible, as is this one.

thank you for proving my point. Shatter Thought nano prog must be running on you...
it is more then obvious that you did not played 2001-2003 AO so please stay out of something you have no clue about kthxbye