David Allen, President of developer Quest Online, the people behind Alganon, issued his final letter to the community for 2009 last week, and in it he announced the game's first major update, dubbed "The Dawning."

The update, which is scheduled for a Q1 2010 release, will feature new instances, a vastly enhanced newbie experience to introduce players to the lore and history of the game as well as a number of the game's more distinctive features, a Consignment house, and of course numerous bug fixes and tweaks.

Allen also announced that the team has completed the core LUA add-on system for Alganon, which should allow players to create custom game interfaces sometime this month. He also looks ahead to the future with other planned features such as the Library Scrying system, voluntary and area specific PvP, kudos, domain control, new races, domains, and achievements.

Returning to the present, Allen also re-iterates his request for patience as the team tackles the game's various issues, asking us to remind ourselves what "DAoC, WoW, EQ2 and other MMOGs were like when they released, and look at what they evolved into."

Find out what else David Allen had to say, read the full letter here.

 Never heard of this game, hopefully things improve seeing how I hate to see indie mmo's go under. Maybe some marketing would help as the player population seems low according to the forums.

Originally posted by Christopher8

 Never heard of this game, hopefully things improve seeing how I hate to see indie mmo's go under. Maybe some marketing would help as the player population seems low according to the forums.

It's well heard of. Alganon is a WoW clone, and I don't mean that in the generic term everyone throws around, they copied WoW, the interface, talent trees, everything, did a subpar job and expect money.

I kinda feel sorry for David Allen. Horizens was his baby and it was taken away from him in a management struggle for power.

This looks to be his 2nd (last?) chance to get his dream going but the game he delivered is subpar at best.

Originally posted by Manarix

I kinda feel sorry for David Allen. Horizens was his baby and it was taken away from him in a management struggle for power.

This looks to be his 2nd (last?) chance to get his dream going but the game he delivered is subpar at best.

It does suck, but I'm not really sure what they were expecting to come out of this. It just feels like they didn't even try to make this game worth while.

I really like the game. I haven't played WoW for over a year and this is comfortable and fun. There are parts of it that are really really close to other games. I think they tried to take the best part of everyone's favorite games and put it into one place. They have a ways to go but after all the instances, new content, classes etc. get added, this will be a excellant game.

Originally posted by Manarix

I kinda feel sorry for David Allen. Horizens was his baby and it was taken away from him in a management struggle for power.

This looks to be his 2nd (last?) chance to get his dream going but the game he delivered is subpar at best.

My impression of the whole Horizons thing was that Mr Allen was a visionary with wonderful ideas and no real execution skills or abilities. That's why he lost his ride on Horizons, and thats why Alganon is the sorry looking piece of plaguarism that it is.