Ryzom

Kami can be used generically in Japanese as "god" yes, but the way the Kami are depicted in Ryzom as guardian deities of varying shapes, colors, and sizes .... it is taken as the spirits type. In Shinto belief (official Japan religion) there are untold number of kami -- basically everything has a ...

I can't imagine the freeryzom website requiring so much bandwidth and so many hits at once that it would make the website slow. There can't be that many people busting down their website right now. And even if you pay with your own money, there are quite a number of hosts out there that offer shared ...

Yes, if the choice is Ryzom.org or Shutdown, then obviously go for it ;D I think most of us can agree though, that if the assets were to go for 10,000 euros or even only a few 100,000 euros, that Nevrax was probably very small to begin with. Even most console games nowadays have a budget in the ...

I'd have to side with getting a "real" company getting the game, honestly. As much as it sounds neat for an MMO to be "player owned" ... you are guaranteed that the servers would run worse than they do now connection-wise, and they would not have the resources to properly fix and add to the game ...

I recently started playing Ryzom as well (appears I just upgraded a few days before they cut off new accounts as well) and in all honesty, even Arispotle seems super empty. They don't show us the total server population, but I would not be at all surprised to learn it was only a few hundred even ...

I don't see SOE as a serious contender for who is buying Ryzom. I think that was just a name thrown out there in rumor by fans, because it's the most recognizable and reviled MMO maker after the whole SWG fiasco, and how much of a grind Everquest was. Ryzom also seems kinda small beans to me, so SOE ...