I am so glad to have played this game when I did, I had so much fun playing it in it's early days. It taught me what an actual MMO was like, and should be like. I met so many people and the close-server communities where you actually knew everyone made it great. This was actually the very first MMO I ever played, and I did not know that the game was so fantastic and impressive for it's time because I had nothing else to compare it to. I guess there must have been some real good developers that cared about the game early on and really had a vision for it, because damn was this the best game that was ever released that I have ever played in my life in (atleast in 2011-2012). There was active world pvp, vega square in whispering islands was slam packed with people respawning and running back into the death cespool pit of people that were there. There were guilds, and friendships built, people hanging out in the main capital dueling for hours or even DAYS. If I could go back I would in a heartbeat, I didn't know it wasn't going to last. I am actually impressed how great this game used to be compared to how trashy it became. I don't know if a game like classic OaC will ever come out again, the massive trend of MTX has ruined gaming and instead turned it into a monopoly of how can we get money rather than how can we make the experience great for customers, which is sad. Maybe one day people will start catching on again, (maybe with VR?) and create an mmo (on mobile) where you can actually play and feel accomplished, have a variety of abilities that take skill to execute in pvp, an mmo with talents and customization, not autoplay. The modern trend of always feeling like you need to buy stuff or being forced into losing is really sickening.It was actually the saddest thing in the world to watch OaC inevitably decay over the years into a pile of trash, but there isn't really any going back at this point, but I can say my experience with order and chaos has left me longing for another chance at a game like it. The close-knitted server community, people grinded for things, you feel accomplished, meet friends, have good pvp, farm pve endlessy, etc. I really miss what this game used to be, and don't really have anyone else to tell or anywhere else to type this, so It's just happening here where maybe some people might be able to relate. I actually think about this game so much even though I haven't touched it for years. I actually do keep in touch with some people I have never met in real life, just solely played this game with for years. If I was rich I would definitely spend money making a game similar to my experience with OaC.
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