Tried out the game again after 12 years.
I seriously would only consider resubbing if there was a complete UI overhaul. The UI was almost 5 years out of date back in the day, but it's absolutely baffling and cryptic today. It needs massive streamlining and complete redo for 1080p and higher resolutions. I remember playing the game back in 2004, bad frame rate, 800x600. An engine overhaul to make the game load smoothly would help too.
Shouldn't need to have a box of plaintext buttons on the screen to use any functions. The graphics are fine even though they're outdated, it's still charming... But having to play around with stuff for 10 minutes to do simple things is too cryptic and frustrating for a game that charges a nice chunk of change for a sub to play in 2019.
Shouldn't need to have a box of plaintext buttons on the screen to use any functions. The graphics are fine even though they're outdated, it's still charming... But having to play around with stuff for 10 minutes to do simple things is too cryptic and frustrating for a game that charges a nice chunk of change for a sub to play in 2019.
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And we need Ultrawide support, cant be true that people have an disadvantage or need to play on lower resulutions.
tl;dr: Make fonts/icons big plzkthxbye
Bobs UI just makes the game exit when I load my character.
An updated version can be found here: https://github.com/CynicalJedi/DAOC-UI-Chooser
If you find options that don't work or cause a crash let me know and I'll try to fix them.
No one should be using BobsUI downloaded from his original site, it's just too far out of date.
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The gui is so outdated and is just like it was so many years ago...I had to reconfigure so much just to make things playable. I always used Bobs in the past but the original game should really be made more modern, I shouldn't have to muck with so much just to have a playable experience.
With the limitations of this new promotion there isn't anything compelling to keep me here. And why pay for a sub when the game is free on the private servers with probably more healthy pops. One right now has almost 1200 live players. This game is dated, old, small populations...$14.95 is asking a lot for a subscription when private servers charge nothing. Drop the game down to $4.99 a month, make so sensible gui updates, and you might get some decent numbers back.
You get what you pay for, and private servers are not likely to be here tomorrow. Is your time valuable? I know mine is. If I want to play a character and invest time into it, I know it's worth it to pay the monthly fee because a year from now, two years from now that same character I poured all my time and love will still be around, while private servers come and go on a whim.
I know a number of people finding this out the hard way and coming back to live after being led astray.
As for the game itself, people keep saying how easy it is to get up to speed, so I have subbed 3 accounts and I am going to give it a month to find out, 3-4 year old top-end at the time template at the moment.
As for population, from a few random /whos (EU evening) on HIb and Alb the numbers aren't looking great so far.
I had an email telling me about account changes, which didn't tell me a lot else. If I hadn't been semi-following the DAOC news I wouldn't have known what it was about and would have skipped it. BS need to be a bit more focused on their marketing emails, get the word out. Email title "DAOC now free to play"
It's concerning that it's taken them a year for this. Possibly a little early to judge but I am afraid it's not looking good and probably kills any chances of a classic server, which they should have done instead of a limited free to play option.