OFFICIAL NEWS

Hey at least you will have the knowledge of how you gained all that DP, now you will be able to do it faster!!

Dont forget about the CTO:

Vianney Lecroart
vl@ryzom.com

Mugshot:

https://plus.google.com/photos/115084784866980344822/albums/profi le?banner=pwa


This guy has a lot of influence especially over the one thing that could SAVE this game which is:

Making it _all_ Open Source

Give me the Ari data and ill host it on a server in my Colo for free.

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Remove the space in "profi le".

Take out the space between the i and l in profile.

cute :P

Well, You can add me to the "find another game" group. Bye to all my Atys friends.

Yea same Here. Not gonna waste my time playing again if they are just gonna do the same thing again down the road. Ill just go to another game that actually will stay around and care about their loyal community.

Well I have a couple of months until my sub will elapse, thus I'll be there when the new server will come up. Yet I have no hope whatsoever that many will follow. And I won't try to regrind my 250 levels or so. I expect the final shutdown during the next months.

I sit here at my same desk where I have played Ryzom for over 6 years, amazed and shocked. I will always remenber the many treks across our little root ball, the many op wars, NPC hunts, pvp skirmishes, and the great LAG. But most of all I will remember you, the Ryzom community. Love me or hate me it is up to you, but personally I loved every moment in game. I will miss staying up well past a reasonable time killing one last boss, or waiting for supreme mats to pop. *sniff* Farewell my friends, I will not be resubbing my toons. I will let Iwishiwasfive die with dignity standing proudly at the Fairhaven Stables where he has been for these many years. Thank you to my ever-loyal alts Vmax, Jackoba, and Jaslene. You have made this game so much fun for me. Last but certainly not least thank you to Sarifina for introducing me to this game, and for putting up with all the times I was up late, or scarfing down dinner at the computer desk, or was late for something because I was trying to finish up in game. Ryzom will be deeply missed.

Iwi


P.S.

In this modern computer world I find it difficult to believe that the player information will be lost due to technical difficulties. The world is full of programmers that could solve the issue, many of which play Ryzom. If you need help resolving an issue please let us help!

I think you should all stop moaning! You think they came on this decision lightly? This is clearly a last ditch effort and i think its a good idea could bring about a new community and new challenges! I personally cant wait to start again! The new players will be useful again! everyone will have to work together to get the economy going again!

This will be alot of fun! Cya all soon
eFFeX

KISS KISS

As I understand it from reading the OP, the difficulties were financial ones not technical ones. Programmers cost money, and changing code takes time.

Ryzom was my first ever MMO experience. I have so many good memories of hunting groups and people staying up waay past midnight to get "just one more level". It was heaps fun. And the reason the Ryzom community became what it is today is due to those experiences in the early days of the server, where we all realised we needed to band together in order to succeed in the game. Ryzom is the only game where getting into a "Pick Up Group" (PUG) was almost always A Good Thing (tm).

If you missed it the first time, I'd highly recommend just subbing for the first three months, at least, and finding out what that experience is like. There will be no high level crafters who can make you your Q90 2h weapon, or diggers with a full set of supreme mats to make your Amps especially good. No guilds will have a built up stock of boss mats, and players will have to get together regularly for such things as TP tickets.

I think those memories I had were special, but I also believe that I will have a whole bunch of new ones when the new Shard opens. I'm looking forward to it, despite the fact that I know I'll have to go through "it" all over again (getting Knowledge 3 in Foraging, for example, will be rather painful, but I can bear it I'm sure).

All I can say is, the way the game started was the reason this community is so great. So here's your chance to experience that first hand. Don't miss it!

/Oscarian

I do not think they came to this decision lightly, Effex, but I do think that they didn't (and haven't) really evaluated the consequenes.  I think this because of the many changes that have been made in the past that have aimed in a direction that the majority of the population (at least in Arispotle) has clearly shown that it does not want to go.

I think that they believe what was said at the beginning post.  I just think that they are wrong about how the oldtimers (the people who have supported this game through its trials and tribulations) will react.  The postings here are a good sample.  There are a few who agree with the devs and a large majority who do not.

I think that this is a last ditch effort, as you say.  I think the ditch is deep, full of quicksand, and that this decision will kill the game.  Instead of a clean death, however, it will linger in pain.

It is clear that the merger of the shards is needed.  I do not see, cannot explain, and will not forgive the desecration of the effort, love and patience that we (and you) long time players have put in. Escpecially when that mutilation of our chattels and skills is clearly not necessary.