Ryzom Ring was absolutely amazing. People who complain it was buggy and unplayable probably only used it for 2 minutes and gave up because it required more focus than mindless grinding does.
There were a few annoying bugs here and there, but they were not game breaking. I'm completely ignorant when it comes to coding and programming and I created a scenario in the Ring. It's true that the scenarios couldn't be hosted online, but at least in Arispotle a community member took it upon herself to keep them available at the Ryzom wiki, so you could simply download them yourself and play anytime you wanted:
http://en.wiki.ryzom.com/wiki/List_of_Ring_scenarios
Some of the scenarios were absolutely mind blowing for people who enjoy Ryzom lore and story heavy questing. Marelli had a scenario in which you could travel to 8 different future alternate realities of Atys to see what would happen if kamis won the war, if karas won the war, if the planet got taken over by the Goo, overrun by Kitins, etc. It was a masterpiece of a scenario, better than most quests I have ever seen in any MMO, period.
But the truth is that as much as I and a few others loved the Ring there was just not enough interest for it. Folks complained they couldn't get mats and rewards out of the Ring. Because yea sure, Guild's GHs aren't already bursting with sups and boss mats =P
Pocket Worlds sounded like an amazing idea, it'd be like Ryzom Ring 2.0 but fixing old mistakes. But I'm under the impression the guy(s) who was working on it before went inactive, that's why we never heard anything about it again. I could be wrong though, who knows.
There were a few annoying bugs here and there, but they were not game breaking. I'm completely ignorant when it comes to coding and programming and I created a scenario in the Ring. It's true that the scenarios couldn't be hosted online, but at least in Arispotle a community member took it upon herself to keep them available at the Ryzom wiki, so you could simply download them yourself and play anytime you wanted:
http://en.wiki.ryzom.com/wiki/List_of_Ring_scenarios
Some of the scenarios were absolutely mind blowing for people who enjoy Ryzom lore and story heavy questing. Marelli had a scenario in which you could travel to 8 different future alternate realities of Atys to see what would happen if kamis won the war, if karas won the war, if the planet got taken over by the Goo, overrun by Kitins, etc. It was a masterpiece of a scenario, better than most quests I have ever seen in any MMO, period.
But the truth is that as much as I and a few others loved the Ring there was just not enough interest for it. Folks complained they couldn't get mats and rewards out of the Ring. Because yea sure, Guild's GHs aren't already bursting with sups and boss mats =P
Pocket Worlds sounded like an amazing idea, it'd be like Ryzom Ring 2.0 but fixing old mistakes. But I'm under the impression the guy(s) who was working on it before went inactive, that's why we never heard anything about it again. I could be wrong though, who knows.
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