There will always be a special place in my heart for DAOC. I will never forget the times running around Isle of Glass or Aegir Landing doing tasks and killing Mygga. I will never forget the weekend long relic raid battles. The all night sieges going back and forth is about as much fun as I have ever had playing an MMO.

When I heard about the consolidated servers and possible release of Origins, I wanted to get back into game shape so  I resubbed. Lots of memories came back, and things were good. But as I played, something just wasn't right. It took me some time to figure out, but eventually it became pretty clear to me. This is NOT the DAOC that I knew or played. The game has changed irreversibly regardless of origins or not.

One of the best things about DAOC back in the day was you would log on, and take a deep breath and ask yourself "Where am I going to hunt and kill today?" Nowdays, the game sets you on a pretty linear path. It seemed like I was constantly bogged down by quests that I had to do. Class quests, epic quests, ML quests, faction quests....  Even if it wasnt mandatory, it seemed like the game pushes you very hard into the questing system considering the rewards you get in xp and loot for questing. All the teleporting seemed to make horse riding and boat rides useless as well.

After playing for about three weeks, I decided that, although I will always love DAOC for the fun it had given me years ago, its charm is gone and its personality has changed. I really hope the new server does well, and it continues to give people he excitement of open RvR warfare and sieges that it once gave me, but it seems my time in Camelot has truly come to an end.

Like you, I went back a few years ago for another round, but things had changed to much.  Instanced dungeoons, almost everyone soloing, new frontiers still sucking as much as it ever did, after 3 months I quit and decided I'm probably gone for good.

Doesn't help that my favorite server was Mordred and its seen the last of its glory days.