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1. How did you come to know about Ryzom ?

Son No. 2 didn't get into the WoW Beta and was disappointed. Back in the day we did a lot of beta testing for OS utilities, office and CAD software in a time when having a "corporate resume" if you will was often required.

I read about SoRs development and wrote to the NA support group (Themis) listing of past efforts and got in early. While my son was at school, created a toon, and had about 2 hours till he got home and explored for a while. He played for about 8 months, as did Son No. 3 later on (TrykerFreddy) as well. Played thru open beta, followed by FBT, and more open betas

They broke my original toon, and I couldn't get in post release, so I finally gave up and created a new name as a joke (Fyrosfreddy) just so i could get in and say hello to folks.

2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before ?

Before and since. Raised a family of nerds, starting building PCs for ourselves (CAD and workstations for office) in 1990. The graphics cards for CAD made great cards for gaming, so that soon followed w/ games like the 7th Guest. Never played any other MMO for any length of time as they always violate one of two rules a) no games w/ jumping ... watching toons in say CoD running into or away from battle pogosticking their way thru the field of battle just kills the realism / immersion for me b) any game where it's all about winning and not getting, but keeping all the goodies for other players is not for me.

As for graphics, I can't say that SoR is graphics intensive. Only one of my GFX cards breaks 30C and just barely, the other isn't used. I like that on the 64 bit client, the CPU uses all 8 cores by default. Burt Ryzom plays just fine on IGP.

3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom ?

Win 7 64 (now using 64 bit client)

4. F2P or P2P ?

P2P. If I use a product, I believe in supporting it. Everyone deserves a living wage and should be paid for their work.

I don't use alts as, to my eyes, that's cheating. Not cheating other players per se, cheating myself.

1:How did you come to know about Ryzom?

I found out about the beta back in the day on some website.

2: Have you played any graphics intensive games before?

Yes, I have played pretty much everything to come out since Ever Quest. The most graphic intensive mmorpg Black Desert Online. The Division and Star Wars Battlefront also.

3:Which OS do you use for Ryzom.

Windows 10 Pro x64

4. F2P or P2P?

F2P for now

1. How did you come to know about Ryzom?
Playing Dark Age of Camelot for two years, I was looking, late 2004, for other worlds to explore but didn't want to rush on the one of Warcraft.
2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before?
Dark Age of Camelot, so. And played some others since : World of Warcraft (buddies lead you, sometimes, where you don't want to go :-), Rift and Skyrim.
3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom.
Windows Seven
4. F2P or P2P?
Either.

1. How did you come to know about Ryzom?
A banner ad on GameSpy followed by a nice trailer.

2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before?
Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament, Morrowind, ..

3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom.
Windows XP during Ryzom Beta and Release, Windows Vista Beta during Ring Alpha, then Vista, Windows 7, also Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and OS X.

4. F2P or P2P?
Neither.

1:How did you come to know about Ryzom?

Back in 2006 i needed a replacement for SWG PRE CU, visited mmorpg.com and checked for the highest ranked sandbox MMORPG (deliberatly ignoring WOW, which i never touched in my life - blamed the destroying of SWG on WoW success-) . Played some of them but sticked to Ryzom and Silan.
After 'The Soul' grabbed me on my first visit on mainland i was hooked.

2: Have you played any graphics intensive games before?

Anytime gameplay over graphics.
If graphics would mean anything more to me i would still play some singleplayer shooter or something optimized for single player.
Was always ok with MMORPG's graphic wise.

3:Which OS do you use for Ryzom.
Windows XP then Windows 7 Ultimate.

4.F2P or P2P

Ryzom is always P2P for me.

1. How did you come to know about Ryzom?
My brother played the beta and I got hooked right away when I saw the beautiful world of Atys. Right after subscribing to retail he quit and I inherited his account, which was the beginning of my journey.

2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before?
Ryzom is beautiful, I don't think it's a matter of modern graphics engines or whatnot but rather design.

3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom.
OS X at the moment :)

4. F2P or P2P?
P2P, I see no reason not to pay for something this wonderful.

1: How did you come to know about Ryzom?
Read about it on reddit (/r/linux_gaming) and wanted to give it a try.

2: Have you played any graphics intensive games before?
Yes, a lot of them.

3: Which OS do you use for Ryzom.
Ubuntu Linux

4: F2P or P2P?
F2P. I've just started.

1. How did you come to know about Ryzom?
Google search for a mmo that isn't pay to win, isn't a race to max level, and has crafting as a useful part of the game instead of a useless gold sink.

2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before?
Yes, many.

3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom?
64bit win7.

4. F2P or P2P?
Free for now.

I started out very early back in beta. Back then i was going by nova , novaflare or variant. After a few short months as beta tester i ended up on csr staff some how . I had a bad case of burn out and stoped playing a couple months in to retail. I heard about it from some email list i was signed up for that listed beta mmorpgs. Never did loose my love for this game though just could not play any more. Im back now in a great guild and will be going to a paid account soon as im ahead on rent and able to pay for 1 year in advance

I was looking for an RPG to keep me occupied, which ran under Linux (I will not touch Windows), when I found myself at home 24/7. Of course Saga of Ryzom came up in my searches and I was immediated engrossed, even as a low level on Silan.

This is the only 3D RPG I have played but , as has been said, this is not graphics intensive.

I run under 64-bit Linux both Ubuntu and Fedora.

2x P2P, as I firmly believe in supporting anything where I am taking something, or in this case gaining something. Although I had little choice in 2007/9 because it was 21 days free, then subscribe or start again, when I became stuck on this crazy rootball.

1. How did you come to know about Ryzom?
I don't remember, it's been too long. I joined in the late beta and kept playing when it was released.
I rejoined just now after having been reminded of it during a discussion about MMORPG's where I mentioned Ryzom as the most memorable one, i looked it up after that and found that it had just been released on Steam. :)

2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before?
Oh yes, i have a pretty powerful computer. I wouldn't consider Ryzom one of those nowdays though. ;)

3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom.
Windows 7

4. F2P or P2P?
P2P

1. How did you come to know about Ryzom?
First tried it in 2011. Was looking for something MMO-ish to play on Linux.

2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before?
Yes, many FPS type games.

3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom.
Linux

4. F2P or P2P?
P2P, but not always.

1. How did you come to know about Ryzom?
Back in 2004 I heard about Ryzom beta, applied but was denied, then forgot about the game until I saw one of its early promo videos. It was love at first sight.

2. Have you played any graphics intensive games before?
Currently only playing Ryzom. Have played many, many games.

3. Which OS do you use for Ryzom.
Windows 10, 64-bit

4. F2P or P2P?
P2P (always)

1/ My brother played it a while few (many ?) years ago, then I headr again about the game few times before the merging, so I gave it a try (just few days before servers merging). I was looking for a RPG game for a linux machine, so I gave it a try. And still there 5 years later ;)

2/ In a previous life I had a Mac, and played a lot on many games there (Marathon, Myst-Riven, Another world, several flight-sims [F/A-18, Hellcat,...]). Plus some heavy time-consuming, anti-productivity stuff on home-console.

3/ Linux (right now, a 64 bits Mageia-5 distribution)

4/ P2P (after only 2 weeks of F2P - I keep supporting this game, but that may not last if we move to a paywin schema...)

Hmmm, somwhere i saw a small add online advertising Ryzom as being one of the few online games you could play on a mac I clicked on it, downloaded the game, this was in 2010, and here I am, 7 years later still playing and loving it :)