spurgeonryan said:
I was always interested in what was going on with this game. Was it just as big as the PC version? |
I doubt it, but it did have a pretty decent-sized userbase before it went down the crapper probably two or so years after the expansion pack was released. The devs did try to keep new content coming, but there was only so much you could do with the game being on PS2. I still believe the servers for the game are still running, since people on the official forums still seem to be playing it (posts are from recently, like a couple of days ago).
I think the mega grind that was the Class Mastery system, coupled with a lack of metagame content drove players away from the game. I know when I quit, there were only a good 4-5 good raids for guilds and the like in the metagame, with some of them taking a good portion of the day to even get anything done. That was another of the game's problems, some of the quests were so horribly designed, since I swear the game went through staff quick.
Overall, it was a very fun game while it was popular, and I would love to see a similar game released on the PS3. There was a total of 6 servers when the game was released, but I think most people only migrate to one now. Also, a lot of people right before I quit ended up having multiple accounts and using multiple characters at once, so it was slowly dying from that point on.
