Delivis
04-30-2007, 10:18 PM
As my drive to play WoW keeps going down, i find myself playing that less and less. Part of that time i have replaced with a much better activity, i think, which is spreading the word about this site. I have been asked to only spread the word to old Mid/Perc folks, as having a bunch of new names around, even if they are good folks we met in WoW (or elsewhere), it would not be condusive to the tight-knit community we seek at this stage.
So i have been tracking down old Mid/Perc folks, starting within my own WoW guild, which is mostly comprised of old DAoCers. Beyond that there are some others who have left WoW, and others still different guilds, which i intent to find. Some i have on my MSN or AIM contact lists. There are others who i remember but have no way of contacting, and there are still others whose name i cant even recall.
I think now is the time to start doing this. I am being clear to everythone that we are in the very early stages of this site, and that the game is still about a year away. Although BETA is pretty close, and people are very intersted in keeping up to date on the game development.
I also think we could use something like a mission statement sticky post for the site. Something along the lines of:
- creating a launching point for the old Mid/Perc community into Warhammer, where we can find and organise old Percivillans
- having a single site to keep up to date on all the latest game developments and BETA oppertunities
- making sure we all end up on the same realm/server come release
On another note, i think it is amazing how deeply nostalgic people still feel about old Mid/Perc. It has been several years now for some since they have played in that community. They have ventured in other games, met new friends, new guilds, and yet, are still very interested in the idea that we may once again recapture what we once had in old Mid/Perc. The other games we have played are all fantastic amazingly designed games, but they are not MMO games whith mehcanics condusive to making and nurturing a realm wide cooperative-community. People are willing, even eager, to leave those games at the prospect of what is very likely to be a less developed, less grand, less funded game in an earlier stage of development because it might have a better gaming community.
I think many people are hoping, waiting with baited breath to see if Warhammer delivers a game that is condusive to the kind of community we had in DAoC. I talk to a lot of old Percy folk and in nearly everyone has both a strong nostalgia for old DAoC, and a hope that Mythic will recreate it in Warhammer.
So i have been tracking down old Mid/Perc folks, starting within my own WoW guild, which is mostly comprised of old DAoCers. Beyond that there are some others who have left WoW, and others still different guilds, which i intent to find. Some i have on my MSN or AIM contact lists. There are others who i remember but have no way of contacting, and there are still others whose name i cant even recall.
I think now is the time to start doing this. I am being clear to everythone that we are in the very early stages of this site, and that the game is still about a year away. Although BETA is pretty close, and people are very intersted in keeping up to date on the game development.
I also think we could use something like a mission statement sticky post for the site. Something along the lines of:
- creating a launching point for the old Mid/Perc community into Warhammer, where we can find and organise old Percivillans
- having a single site to keep up to date on all the latest game developments and BETA oppertunities
- making sure we all end up on the same realm/server come release
On another note, i think it is amazing how deeply nostalgic people still feel about old Mid/Perc. It has been several years now for some since they have played in that community. They have ventured in other games, met new friends, new guilds, and yet, are still very interested in the idea that we may once again recapture what we once had in old Mid/Perc. The other games we have played are all fantastic amazingly designed games, but they are not MMO games whith mehcanics condusive to making and nurturing a realm wide cooperative-community. People are willing, even eager, to leave those games at the prospect of what is very likely to be a less developed, less grand, less funded game in an earlier stage of development because it might have a better gaming community.
I think many people are hoping, waiting with baited breath to see if Warhammer delivers a game that is condusive to the kind of community we had in DAoC. I talk to a lot of old Percy folk and in nearly everyone has both a strong nostalgia for old DAoC, and a hope that Mythic will recreate it in Warhammer.