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Mythic Details "Re-Enlistment" Bonuses for Warhammer, Camelot, and Ultima Online
by Brian Leahy, Sep 30, 2010 11:00am PDTIn an effort to drive some re-subscriptions to its trio of MMORPG games, BioWare Mythic is running a 14-day "Return of the Legends Re-Enlistment Celebration" for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Dark Age of Camelot, and Ultima Online.
Players will enjoy free game time from now through October 12 will get the following bonuses in-game:
In Warhammer Online:
- Libram of Insight (+15% XP, Reknown, and Influence)
- Signet of the Cursed Company (transform yourself into a skeleton)
- Kemmler's Arthritic Hand (action point regeneration)
Dark Age of Camelot players will be able to "play with and against Dark Age of Camelot developers in-game as they rampage across the Realms" on "every server".
In Ultima Online, however, the event will culminate with the release of the game's newest booster pack, Ultima Online: High Seas. It will be sold for $14.99 and contain:
- Brand new NPC Ship Combat with enhanced ship-to-ship combat and damage states
- Bank/Character Storage Increase, Sea Markets, new fish, fishing buffs, and recipes, paintable boats, Level 7 Treasure Chests and new boss encounters: the Scalis and Corgul the Soulbinder
- All new ship combat! Features include new ship to ship combat, ship weapons and ammunition, and NPC Ship Combat (Pirates and Merchants)
- Three new ship types with customizable colors, weapons and ammunition
It will be interesting to see if these games ever go free-to-play. It's certainly worked out for Turbine and now Sony is trying it with EverQuest II.
I used to play a lot of Dark Age of Camelot back in the day, but I can't see myself ever subscribing to it again. Maybe if it was free...
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Then suddenly it dawned on me how clunky many things were and how Mythic never really invested into a major overhaul, instead trying to add more PVE and a bit more PVP content where it wasn't really necessary. The original frontiers still were the best and I had the greatest battles and adrenalin rushes there at Hadrians wall and Odins Gate.
Mythic, please give DAOC a new spirit, relight the fire and give it a complete makeover, I will instantly subscribe to a Dark Age II.
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Has this been fixed? If not there is absolutely no point in resubbing.
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The downside is that past Tier 1 (the unlimited free trial tier) there is hardly anyone playing, which pretty much kills it.
Their PvP is still the most fun of any MMO I've played in quite awhile... it is just a shame it is so hard to find past T1.
They direly need to pull a Turbine. :)
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Anyway, unless they offered Daoc completely free-to-play I will not be going back to my veteran account. Fuck knows it would probably take me a month alone just to get all my house inventory's off the repo man and sorted. Screw that lol.
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Unfortunately, part of what makes DAOC so exciting is also what makes it difficult for the casual (and new) player. The PVP is extremely fast and unforgiving. To do well you really need to pay attention, recognize and know what all the classes can do, and have a well organized group of people with you. Otherwise you will become frustrated very quickly.
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1) graphics update was really not impressive (the LOTR one was much more comprehensive),
2) the catacombs were extremely lame,
3) the game just didn't have any new and interesting content that I could find.
After checking out LOTR lately, it amazes me how much doing a GOOD graphical revamp and putting a solid amount of TLC into an old game can help it.
I sure wish they'd have done that to Anarchy Online and Ultima Online... even City of Heroes... too many of these games are mostly left to die on the vine after release. A few shallow expansions are released, and they let them die. All three of the above games are games I'd love to be playing now if they actually maintained them along the lines of WoW or LOTR. Simply keeping the promise to keep updating them with new content and graphical updates doesn't seem like too much to ask, but apparently, it is.
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