Ryzom connection failed free#

Not unless they invest in game development. I seriously doubt any further development will be put into Ryzom. It is a great game, but it is way to late. Or maybe I should be asking - have you been keeping your crystal ball polished enough? :P Have you been following the mmo market lately? Best we can all hope for is a company that keeps the servers and the game stable and running. What I've seen, both from trying games when they're released and from reading other gamers' impressions at forums like these, is that they've all been pretty disappointing. They've all claimed to be 'next gen' and tried to be different to lure players away from the monster we know as WoW.

There's nothing else like it on the market. A relatively small amount of strategic development ('polish' and developing the Ring) could seriously broaden this game's appeal.Īnd it's never been well advertised. In fact, i have been following MMO market lately Spiderweb International got a bargain when they picked up Ryzom. Ryzom in peticular - a great game that it is. Is also a game that had a planned set of functionalities, that were planed as original set of features. These features could arguably seen as crucial to the game. Still in all time with original development team they were never implemented. Now 4 years after original release, when game is slowly walking into area of OUTDATED, after two cancells, after most of players were estranged - do you really think investors will consider investing into renewed development ? The company that took over Ryzom, didnt implement them aswell. Most likely the game will be presented 'As is', perhaps some bug fixes will be made. But i wouldnt hold my breath for Kitin invasions. Perhaps couple of thousand subs of most loyal players can net some profit to keep the game afloat.but thats it.Īt this point, only smart thing to do will be going 'Anarchy Online' way. Giving big part of the game for free.Īnd, i have good feeling that this is exactly what new owners will do.

Ryzom connection failed free#

This is the first time Ryzom is free of debts and an overinflated development team. With people from Nevrax involved in Spiderweb, the new team will (hopefully) have learned from past mistakes and have a very good grasp of what Ryzom is and how it should be nurtured. The above points are why I think you're being pessimistic, Lobotomist. You may think you're being realistic but a true realist considers all factors and weighs them relevantly. I have considered negative factors as well - the age of the game, the effects of a bad release, poor management, and two liquidations, the way a typical investor would see Ryzom, the small playerbase, and the fact that for all their crying for 'something different,' most MMO players can't handle Ryzom's degree of difference.īut in this particular situation, the positive factors have a good chance to outweigh the negative ones and result in an outcome that would be favourable for Ryzom fans and the new team.

Istaria and its team, Virtrium, have shown it to be possible and Istaria is an older, more dated-looking game than Ryzom with more major problems. That said, it's going to take a lot of skill and care on Spiderweb's part. There is a chance of failure, potentially spectacular failure. I won't begin to guess which way this whole thing will actually go until I've seen them in action for about 3-6 months after the game servers go up.