The Shocking State of DAOC in 2024

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I played this game in its glory days. It was an amazing experience, and no game has ever really replicated it. There would be massive realm wars with 100s of players on battling for an objective. And you would see people's names in the cst box appear when they killed someone. They were like the players of legend with very high realm ranks, and you would strive to get to thst point. I truly miss this game, and I hope in some way it gets resurrected.

do a video on the Eden free shard server. Its a more accurate representation of how many people play and it keeps the game alive. There's usually more than 1000 people on at any given time and its free with regular updates. Helps shine light on how good of a job the devs have done to keep the game going.

You should do a follow up on DAOC on the Eden server, its where all the people you were looking for are.

I have such fond memories of DAOC. First character was a Dwarf Thane and the loyalty to faction was strong. We were always the underdogs to Albion BGs. Ended up switching to Albion and felt the same loyalty. 15+ years on and I still remember some of those epic battles in the New Frontiers. I would get so jazzed for Friday night RvR. I even got my Mom playing it with me and we had such good times. Really fun to see it covered again, thanks Sawman! Great video and thanks for the nostalgia wave :).

Another reason why the playerbase is low is because most people are playing on the private servers which are.. free.. and actually has active pvp going on.

Wife and I played this game in its prime when Shrouded Isles expansion released shortly after the infamous left axe nerf, we played for 7 years. No game has ever come close to the RvR this game had also Lance, Merlin etc. original servers had 1,000s of people on them was always something to do even in the lower level BGs ( Thid , Molvik) had 100s of people in them.

A revival of daoc, in a revamp or sequel, might be the only thing that could make me intrested in an mmo again

Three faction PvP is still the best PvP system in an MMO to date. Games try to reinvent the wheel as time goes by, but nothing has surpassed it.

There were 250k players playing at its peak, if I remember correctly. It was the second biggest MMO on the market at the time, EQ being the biggest.

Now it would be cool if you did a video on the Eden server, so that people know there is a very successful DAoC environment to play this game in all it's glory. <3

This was my first mmo and I got so hooked. Love this game and the concept. Wish it would get updated and rereleased.

I know I look like a weirdo now with this many comments, but this struck a chord. Most players who were there at launch would agree. This was a great video!

DAOC was such a great game. I miss those days A LOT.

I remember Dark Age of Camp-a-lot, The Exciting Game of Riding Horses (TM). It was my second MMO after Asheron's Call. A typical play session (Albion Armsman/Tank) consisted of: 1. Log in. 2. See if one of the guild's Clerics is online. If so, proceed to 3. Otherwise, log out and do something else for a while, then try again. 3. Ask the Cleric if they're interested in doing some content. If so, proceed to 4. Otherwise, log out and do something else for a while, then try again. 4. Spend half an hour discussing exactly which camp would be ideal for the Cleric's leveling and/or gear farming needs. Remember, a single level difference in content difficulty could be the difference between an easy farm and repeated wipes. 5. Spend half an hour or more riding a rented horse to the chosen location. 6. Spend half an hour or more fighting your way to the chosen spot. 7. Spend half an hour or so killing the same group of monsters over and over. 8. Oh, no! A game-wide announcement that Midgard has stolen one of your relics! Now the Cleric wants to go do RvR. 9. Spend half an hour or more travelling to the correct RvR zone (Snowdonia?). Hope you don't grab a horse to the wrong one, because they're at opposite ends of the realm. 10. Spend half an hour travelling to the target keep. 11. Spend half an hour or more beating on the gate with your sword because no one thought to bring a battering ram. 12. Oh, no! Midgard players have shown up to defend the keep! 13. Spend half an hour or more exchanging ineffectual ranged attacks with the defenders. 14. Just as you think you're starting to make some headway, a Hibernian duo consisting of a Bard and a Warden shows up. The Bard mez-locks your entire group while the Warden slowly, ever-so-slowly, stabs your entire group to death with his pathetic healer-level DPS spear. 15. Log out. Dark Age of Camp-a-lot is the one MMO for which I have zero nostalgia. I would rather go back to Age of Conan, The Secret World, or even Tabula Rasa, rather than spend another second of my life "playing" this "game." This is the MMO that converted me to permanent Carebear (O_o) status. I would rather go back to high school or work as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman again rather than log in to DAoC. Both those experiences were more fun and rewarding....

I am, indeed, old as fuck. I still have my cockmongler memes. I played DaoC back in the day. Hibs for life. Fuck Albion Reavers. Nothing was worse than the hype train leading up to Warhammer Online only for it to end up being a wet fart.

Copying this from another video I posted on. This game is what got me into gaming into the first place and will always be close to heart. If there is one MMO that deserves a rebirth, it is DAoC. So many memories, friends made, rivals from the other realms and the best community in any game i've ever seen so many years on. From the in-game funerals honored by all three realms in the frontiers. To the guilds that would peel off in an 8v8 when my group would get AJ'd. To the lvl 50 shaman who would give me stam and dmg buffs when passing by in DF when I was a low level. To the crafters who would grind for hours to become LGM only to charge cost because for the glory to the realm. To the Raid leaders and Relic Raid leaders who brought the community together for the realm. To the people having 8v8s and not killing the lonely solo who just wanted to watch. To the people who would /bow after kicking my butt. To the high level group in the dungeon who brought someone 6 levels under them to soak xp and go deeper with you. To the people of Igraine when dropping Laghammers in OF Emain zerg fights, sorry not sorry :) To the thousands of memories built over the years from every corner of the game. Thank you, for being the best fucking community ever and i'm proud to have been a part of it.

Loved this game back in the day, it felt revolutionary to me at the time. Big love to Prydwen crowd! My friends and I were teenagers when we began playing this and had so much free time to burn so the huge number of hours / days needed to progress wasn't much of an issue. Uni, Full-time jobs, families and real life were ultimately why our time in game diminished. I'm 40 next year but still remember fondly some of the epic battles, rivalries, enemies and friends (admittedly through rose tinted glasses in some cases :D). Still, this game introduced a number of firsts for me personally as a gamer. - First huge multiplayer open world PvE and PvP experience - First game that allowed for our extended group of friends to play all at the same time. - First game to allow us to make our own guild with our own emblem, house etc - First and pretty much only game to allow for a non instanced player house occupying an actual numbered plot in a zone. - First game with such a steep learning curve, in the beginning there weren't even maps of zones available, it was all explore yourself learn from others etc. Ended up buying a 2 inch thick Prima guide :O. - First game to ever give me a rush with hard earned PvP fights. Especially winning 1vs 2, 3 etc. Never could put my finger on why this only happened in daoc and never any game before or since. The list goes on. Good times.

My brother bought this game shortly after it released. It was probably december of 2001 and I was almost 9 years old. I remember watching him play for hours and begging to play. Occasionally if I was lucky he would let me play for him. A year or two later I had a computer that could half run it, sometimes I got to play on his account. I'd convince my mom off and on to let me get a subscription and then I'd make countless characters and level them up to 15 or so before changing for a new character. By the time I was 12 I had a better computer and took my gaming to the next level. I leveled a highlander mercenary to about level 41. The highlight of my DAOC experience was to get a character level 5, buy the best gear I could for the lions den (level 5-9 pvp zone) and then go into the zone and grind all night to be level 15-19 when people came online the next morning. I delighted in being geared with armor and skills people entering the zone couldn't possibly match. I would be able to one hit most characters. I even wiped an entire group once, before eventually getting attacked by two realms at once and being killed as a level 19 Armsman. This was the best mmo ever. I'm not even a lore person but the themes and vibe of this game have never been matched.

It's not that ppl don't want pvp, it's that ppl want pvp that feels rewarding and fair. That's the hard part to do n why we haven't seen many pvp oriented mmos succeed.