Ryzom

brithlekoo wrote:***if anyone would be kind enough to repost this on the "General" forum, we would most appreciate it. There's a cookie in it for you! ***



Passionate Gamers,



The end that has been near for some time is finally here. As we are all well aware the project that is Ryzom is finally coming to an unfortunate end. Infinity has been gone from the land of Atys for quite some time now, but our interest in the game and the friends we made here still lives on. Brithlem, Morgaine and Praha have been regularly reading the forums since our departure in hopes that this ship would eventually right itself and save what is easily the best community we have ever had the privilege of being part of. Unfortunately, the ship will not be righted and there will, essentially, be no tomorrow.



We have been venturing all over the MMO landscape since our departure from Ryzom and have called WoW home for the last 10 months. Now, when we all left for other games, we all had the "WoW is the devil mentality" like the majority of the Ryzom community used to (and perhaps still does) share. We were wrong; flat out. Stay with me on my tangent here… please.



I grew up in a small town on Cape Cod… when the time came for college… I wanted to go to a small college… "I don't want to be around all those immature kids at large state schools," I thought to myself. No, I wanted a small community where people that were just like me wanted to go. I chose a small school, spent a year there, and then, just like people do with MMOs, I bounced around between colleges for a while eventually landing at UMASS Amherst, a school of 25,000 people; on paper it was a nightmare. After attending for a few weeks I quickly realized that there were a lot of morons on camps. Let me stress that, a lot. But, they were all largely avoidable, in the large numbers on campus there were actually *more* people like me, than at the school full of people like me because of the mass of people involved. Moreover, it allowed me to get to know people I otherwise had too narrow of a view to get to know. WoW is the exact same. There are idiots; everywhere. There are also a lot of mature players with jobs, families, a sense of decency and a team mentality; you just have a larger haystack to sift through to find them. Put simply, it is a large gaming community with gamers so diverse that one can find any niche they so chose. We have chosen to be an end game raiding guild of mature players with a dedicated core of players that work as a team with a set goal; much like we were in our Ryzom days.



Now, for anyone that may remember us, or people that just know who we were / still continue to be, we ask that you come and check us out - hop on vent and say hi, hit our forum and see what we discuss these days, the jokes we make, and you'll see the same things you see on the Ryzom forums. Sure the graphics are different and the language has changed. But along with those changes have come other significant positive changes as well. The Devs actually react to problems, content and skills are constantly rebalanced and modified (think "ranged" here), there are *so* many players that there is always something to do and that something never requires a pick and focus gear. The game brings a lot that people in Ryzom always asked for and were so afraid to give a fair chance to, myself included. Personally, for the 2 years I played Ryzom, I blamed WoW for the downfall of Ryzom. For anyone that remember release, remember the mass of players for the first month or so before WoW came out. There was a mass exodus to WoW when the first combat "patch" was instituted, which just happened to coincide with the release of WoW… it destroyed bustling major cities and for over 2 years I never, ever gave WoW a chance because it took so much away from the game that, at the time, I thought was the end all of MMOs.



These days, I don't say there's an "end all" MMO anymore. They're too fluid of concepts to assign that title to. That said, of all the games I have played since leaving Ryzom, the only one I've used that all important word "home" with is WoW.



This post is for that. Where to call "home" next? We know Ryzom attracts fiercely loyal players who have a sense about who they are and what they want. We'd like to invite anyone who has called Ryzom home to visit our website ( http://infinity-crushridge.guildlaunch.com/ ) and / or log into our ventrilo server (IP: revive.typefrag.com Port: 25294) and say hello… perhaps even check out the game on trial or listen to us live instead of just reading this times new roman 12 point account of things.



Bottom line is we hope you all find something to enjoy in the coming weeks and months, these days we can honestly say we've found it and would love to rekindle old friendships with people looking for it as well.



Be well Atys, we wish you all the best,

Brithlem