Slashdot writes "Ubisoft has announced the shutdown of Shadowbane, the first major, fantasy role-playing MMO with true PVP (full asset destruction possible). The shutdown will take place in about two weeks, at the start of May.
There have been plenty of bugs in the history of MMORPGs that caused problems for players across the world, and gave the developers a tough nut to crack. Some of them were funny, others nothing short of infuriating. And then there was the plague of Azeroth.
GameDynamo - "MMOs come and go. Some, you'd probably be surprised to hear are still up and running (Warhammer Online or Dark Age of Camelot anyone?) but there are a handful of MMOs that were pretty decent that just couldn't last. "
Beta tested Earth and Beyond and Shadowbane, hated both. I miss Tabula Rasa, that is the one I liked!
Wow, I do remember playing Rubies of Eventide during my first foray into free online mmo's. I barely got out of the training section but I remember feeling dumb-struck by the amount of classes on offer.
Good times. The internet felt like a vast and larger place, waiting to be explored...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs) are virtual persistent worlds that allow 100′s to thousands of players to simultaneous play and be part of the same game world. All MMOs have the leveling treadmill type of gameplay common to nearly all roleplaying games, however, there are a few core features that are exclusive to persistent worlds such as Player Housing, Crafting with Player Trading of created items (merchants), and of course Player Interaction including combat (PvP).
