General Discussion

Originally posted by RKStephens

Cooperation with Turbine will have to be met. We have plans of buying rights to do this if necessary, however a near finished product will be introduced to them at a later date. We want them to be able to make sure that we will not be "insulting" their product. We also fully understand that we would need to pay them much more then they could ever possibly make off of their existing, but well dated Asheron's Call. Negotiations will be made and if the slim chance comes that it isn't possible to work with them, then enough changes will be made to our world and town names and other basically meaningless items in the game that it will still launch under a different name, but withl all the concepts that made Asheron's Call so much fun to play. This would cause no more then 2 or 3 months delay in a situation where we simply couldn't work a deal with Turbine, Inc as we already have the ability to completely change our world and locations of cities, mountains, deserts etc in rapid time, giving plenty of time in even two months to add attention to detail by hand.

 

Sounds like you guys are actually thinking this through. Sounds like it might be great!

Also, if you don't mind my prying, might the individual backing this have been a fairly well-known player (particularly on Frostfell) in AC, or maybe had a well-known toon? I ask because I knew a guy that was fairly well-known by most and seemed to have loads of cash.

Sure, i'd give it a try.

Only sandbox style game I've played is EVE and I really like it. Always regretted missing out on AC and would love to try a game like it sometime.

Very interesting. I've long said that a private investor is the best hope for sandbox MMO's since the big games companies are too commercially afraid to deviate from the linear-levelling pattern.

Very interesting. I never played Asheron's call, but I can say with cofidence that in addition to myself I know many other MMO'ers who would certainly want to have a look.

Originally posted by RKStephens

Originally posted by Pyrostasis

PRoblem with this is.... I doubt your turbine... which means you cant sell this or charge a monthly fee, so you would have to be free to play..

Being free to play means limited resources, lots of garbage people as the hackers and banned people can just come right back in. UCMing and speedhacks were pretty common in AC1 where if you were banned you had to buy a new account... on a private server thats free to play it would be rampant.

 

You are absolutely correct. I do not come from Turbine.

Don't be so sure about the available resources however. The new game is being backed up by an old fan of Asherons Call who has more money then he will ever be able to spend. I am not going to go into it, but he has had a rather unfortunate series of life events in the past year.

His dream is to bring back one of the best games he states he has ever played. I will say that there is easily over 500 million dollars accessible if needed to bring this to life, and that he has already stated that his cost will not matter, as long as this project is done correctly.

The game will be done correctly, and it will be done in as short a time span as possible. We already have a strong team of some of the best coders, developers, and managers working together and they are being paid not by the hour, but by the overall quality of the finished product with bonuses given if the game is completed before the goal date set. So, just as any employee that wants to make money, their goals of time and quality are of major importance to them.

Not only will this game be free to play, and free to download, it will also be free of hackers and cheaters who try to use 3rd party programs such as UCMers and buff bot tools etc.

Members of our team include people who have brought to you the original Asherons Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Diablo II, and Halo.

Oh. I would also like to mention that this game will have perma death of characters. Perma death happens to any character who is caught cheating or hacking in any way, shape or form. Failing to "not know" will not be excusable since they will be in big letters that must be accepted in terms and conditions prior to playing. (For example, to get through the terms and conditions, a one or two sentence explanation and example will be shown on the screen that you will have to read and accept. There will be over 20 "accepts" needed to begin creation of your first character. Any new characters made will need to go through the same process)

 

 

Sandbox + Free to play = my full support. Now I've never played AC (a little before my MMO time) but I have been a long time Eve player and support of all MMOs that have a sandbox theme. AC sounds like my perfect MMO I never had a chance to play. Huge fan of deciding how you want to play the game. And that Karma system sounds like a nice way to stem the constant greifers but still keep the world a harsh place. Big fan of that.

If you have a website or any other infomation (forums, blogs what have you) please keep us updated. I would very much like to support an MMO company that wants to revolutionize the currently bland MMO market place.

If you are serious and not just a clever troll I would love to play this game.  AC is my favorite game of all time and I would love to see it remade like you posted.  I'm not going to get my hopes up that this is true though.  Best of luck if it is.

There is no way Turbine will ever give up the name Asherons Call so already your post is unbelieveable just with the name.

I say this is a bs post unless you can show us how you can take the name AC and also more about yourself. Saying one thing then proving it is a whole other story.

Put up or shut it.

Interested.. sure. Especially at the lawsuits for IP infringement that would shut it down without 5 minutes of it being announced :D

Unless you bought the IP rights/etc, anyway, and had a budget to run the dev team to modernize it up like you say

I'm going to take a stab and guess that one of the old players with this is Elgarl -maker of El-Tank-

I had read before about him and an AC emulator for when and if turbine killed off AC, or any other means to try and use ac related material

-justs sounds too familiar-

I would give it a try and hope for a true sandbox game... i am sooo tired of all those stupid themepark MMOs