Asherons Call HAD a lot of respect back in its day but Turbine stopped treating it with 'respect' and kicked it to the curb in favor of all its new 'golden children'.
I played AC back in its prime when the gmae had a very large pop and it WAS a great game but now...its not much of an MMO without a population. Its mechanics are dated and it uses a lot of conventions that frankly just don't work anymore. The Buff system alone is an issue that has needed addressing for like 10 years now. Which leads directly to the next issue...bots. Only in AC will see as many bots as L2 only in AC they are legal for the mostpart except for the combat macroers. Trade bots, buff bots, portal bots...yup rather then fix these issues with the game Turbine just let it go to hell.
Saving Asheron. If you complete this quest you get a 4 use Mana Forged Key, and 256 million XP. This quest has a 27 day timer, and is pretty hard. As such we had 5 full fellowships rolling this quest. There where so many people there that it was impossible to die. We stormed down the halls of this dungeon like a German Blitzkrieg.
Not to mention the graphics are pathetically dated and will never draw in anyone these days. The UI is an antique from the late 90's, there wasn't even a basic quest journal so if you forgot what you were doing because oh...maybe RL called for a day or 2...you were just SOL. It had a lot of great quest BUT is was also very grind intensive. On and on.
And lets face it, the MMO genre doesn't need any more fantasy games right now. I think they got that covered.
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