DAOC numbers are saddening

[Antiochene]

I know that this is a warhammer site, but I know that many of us came from Dark Ages. I just went to the camelotherald to checkout how many people are playing DAOC. Worldwide there are 2,207 players. With the North American servers having 1424 players on.

What is Mythic going to do with it now?

Some of you probably have a better idea than I because this is the first MMO that I played.

I can speculate that they are going to do things like Killibury cluster and the Devon cluster. Kill off Pendragon and Mordred (which only has 13 people playing on it). Gaheris only has 164 on it so it might see the chopping block also.

Do they just keep it up and scale back the support until it is unprofitable then announce they are closing it down?

[Llyweln]

Master Server is what they will be doing in the end.....or give a discount to play both games. I know alot cant afford both, so had to choose.

[Rardac]

My DAoC account was finally cancelled as of yesterday. End of an era. :(

[Llyweln]

My main one closes next week.....6yrs.....War acct was opened exactly 6yrs 1 week after Daocs. And yes, it was grand while it lasted, all of it. :D

[Sentack]

In a wierd twist of events, I've actually had some of my most fun runs in DAOC lately. I don't know why...

Recently, my group of friends who play, finally decided to leave the Labby and run outside with rams and start taking towers or helping claim a keep. The small numbers mean that you have much smaller 'zergs' running around and honestly, we've been having a blast just taking on small teams of enemy players, fighting over towers and keeps. A zerg now is 2fg's!

In general, the smaller population, since the drop off from all the people moving to Warhammer, has been a huge boon to my enjoyment of the game. Freaky wierd, isn't it?

[Rardac]

Sounds like the way it was on Nimue prior to the creation of Tintagel!

[Eliora]

When I went to resub to WAR I resubbed to DAoC for a month. I doubt I will play DAoC much but I might as well poke around a bit and see what it looks like. Now to see if I can find all my discs hehe

[Llyweln]

When I went to resub to WAR I resubbed to DAoC for a month. I doubt I will play DAoC much but I might as well poke around a bit and see what it looks like. Now to see if I can find all my discs hehe

LOL
Couldnt find mine to save me.....after I had moved into new place....4 months later, found em.....under the back end of the laptop to keep the fan vents clear. :D

[Drakhon]

You shouldn't actually need the discs. You can just download the trial client and use your real account instead.

[Eliora]

You shouldn't actually need the discs. You can just download the trial client and use your real account instead.


Yep, you are right :) Lots of downloading and patching. It will be fun to just poke around a bit. I just hope not to depresing with how empty it will be :(

[Elsebet]

I want to just go run around the old Midgard zones like Raumarik, Muspelheim, Vendo Caves, etc. Cheaper to just try this for that purpose though:

http://www.dolserver.net/

[Kestrel_Trebor]

They should make it so that the portal in WAR that teleports you to outside of Camelot, *ACTUALLY* teleports you to a DAOC server. . .

Imagine balancing that RvR out, lol. . .

That having been said, I hope they keep DAOC running. With EA counting the beans now, though -- dunno. I can't imagine that it can be profitable if it dips below like 10,000 subs, but maybe. . . But the moment they start losing $$ on it is the moment it'll be shut down.

But then perhaps they'll actually license the content so that "free shards" can *legally* operate -- hopefully ;)

[Gisli]

Not meaning to trivialize the events this poem refers to, but it seems to fit.

And one by one, and two by two,
They've sailed from the quay since then;
I've said good-bye to the last I knew,
The last of the careless men;
And I can't but think that the times we had
Were the best times after all,
As I turn aside, raise my glass,
And drink to this barroom wall.
-- Henry Lawson

[Rardac]

Or, this one (though not so profound):

Miniver Cheevy

Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.

Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would send him dancing.

Miniver sighed for what was not,
And dreamed, and rested from his labors;
He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
And Priam's neighbors.

Miniver mourned the ripe renown
That made so many a name so fragrant;
He mourned Romance, now on the town,
And Art, a vagrant.

Miniver loved the Medici,
Albeit he had never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
Could he have been one.

Miniver cursed the commonplace
And eyed a khaki suit with loathing:
He missed the medieval grace
Of iron clothing.

Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
But sore annoyed was he without it;
Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,
And thought about it.

Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.

-- Edwin Arlington Robinson