Shadowbane

[Walterus]

For the fun of it I just checked the Shadowbane home page. It is now both free to download and to play. Maybe I will take a look at it when I get my new PC. They still patch it and keep the game up to date. No idea how they can make money on it if it's free.

[cluck]

i might check this out just to see it... it's got a good price, at least :)

[Demeth]

I don't even remember what they did with my toon when Treachery was dissolved doe to our domination, heh. It was a fun game back in the day, I still say the full destruction mechanic was one heck of a social experiment, and either vastly succeeded or horribly failed depending on your point of view. "Play to crush"... unless you got crushed, then whine and quit the game... roflmao. The serverwide truces elsewhere - anyone attacks another town the rest of the server attacks you - were pretty pathetic.

Fond memories, but I doubt I could find time to mess around with it again.

[cluck]

from what i've seen ...

Physically affect the terrain, buildings, politics, and history of Shadowbane and discover the first MMO with a Dynamic World Model.

Experience a groundbreaking blend of MMO role-playing and large- scale strategy that blazes new paths of possibility – embark upon quests, run shops, build cities and siege castles in your bid to create or crush empires.

Build character using a deep multi-classing system (10 races and more than 20 character promotion classes) to create unique combinations of professions, classes, skill, and fighting styles as you progress – for boldly original characters you can’t play in any other world.

Extensive guild system allows for true social and political maneuvering featuring 13 guild types (such as Wizard’s Tower, Mercenary Company, Thieves Den, Barbarian Clan, and more), probationary member voting, guild ranks and titles, a deep guild allegiance/fealty system, a unique coat of arms creation tool, war declarations and assassinations for the ultimate experience in online political intrigue.

Incredible story arc covers over five thousand years of recorded history, abounding with legends, epics, and tragedies.

Detailed magic system with over a dozen schools of magic, from Summoning and Wizardry to Channeling and Psionics (warlockry).

Complete Personal Housing system allows players to build their own cottages, houses, villas and citadels.

An elaborate and detailed system for Castle Sieges, including siege weapons, troop formations, guard patrols and the ability to burn cities to the ground.

Character Multi-classing -- Players can master up to three additional Disciplines from a list of dozens available, like Archery, Blademastery, Wyrmslayer and Stormlord.

Real time in-game reporting system communicates information with vital statistics and game progress instantaneously to shadowbane.com and official fan sites.

Fully customizable and easy to use interface.




this sounds like it could break me away from uo free shards for awhile

[Freejack]

They left out the "unbearably boring" bullet point. Wonder why?

[DrBuzz_LOA]

Last time I checked my account the servers had been wiped. This game is toast, but the grind is still there.

[Lostinthewood]

I went back in about 5-6 months ago.... Still had the chars... Immediately got ganked and decided it wasn't worth the hassle

[wooze]

Its a shame. Forget they were an full time pvp game with world conquest. Even their character classes were imho fun, innovative and unique. I'd have played their game as a pure pve game, just for the classes and the lore. They did some good things that I hope are remembered one day.

[Demari]

I beta tested this game back in the day, was totally absorbed in everything about it, then launch and... uh... :( tried it again when i first heard it was free, didn't make it out of the starter zone before i remembered the pain.

[Namoric]

I tried to play, and would lock up, crash, and otherwise hard to do a hard-reset of my machine after 5 minutes.

Maybe 10. But it wasn't fun. I could see where it COULD be fun. just couldn't get intot he game for crashing all the time

[Morning]

I played briefly. The box had a cool looking minotaur on it. That's about the only positive thing I can say about it, in my experience.

[Tsunami]

Yup I messed around with this a few months ago, got to around level 12 and deleted it. The game just doesn't have enough content at the early levels to keep me interested.