I have tried earlier and now planning to return to continue. Anyone interested to join and play together? PM me.

my toon is called Coldplay

mage-online.com

It looks really beautiful, i'm only worried about performance...

OP, check my test run at mage online. looks like it's that huge sandbox world you wished for...

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm?thread=373004&val=1&uh=8F0278F612BB7D3ADF2557BE7560B257

Today i had fun killing some bosses in team. I got finally my first pet under control too, works pretty well.

There is a lot of activity going on, several patches/day...

The bottom line is I like what i have seen so far, but for now i'm going to jump into testing some other games.

Definitely going to check back later to see how things develop.

yes, at first start-up there was an Ogre configuration dialog. The whole download was around 120Mb, i have expected alot bigger download to be honest.

map data is downloaded once you move around, i see a bunch of those files on my HD. if i understood correctly the land is 128 x128 square miles, thats a pretty huge desert world to explore.

here is another picture from a mission boss fight, spanking a skeleton lord here :)

VG is one of the best :) too bad SOE let it rot for years, and missed the opportunity to pick it up until now.

You can actually get lost in VG :) How about that!

I think online games should have an initial fee (50ish dollars top), then you can enjoy it for a year free.

Afterwards, you could get the usual subscription based offers. This way you get a nice start.

Keeping it free forever (ala GW1) is kinda hard on the game studio side, especially if there are loaded servers because of this.

It would be better also for the game studios in planning cash resoures ahead, they wouldnt spend the initial income right away in hope subs stay :)

I had some extra time today, here is some more info. Bit hard to play, as usually noone is around to team with or get help.

It seems missions are generated for your level range, there is boss to kill and treasure to find. Mission chests have puzzle games to disarm and impove loot. Doors, keys, just like dungeon master type games.

Asked someone in game who seem to have connection with devs to make some youtube vids. Lets see, the game is changing alot, lots of short downtimes, kinda frustrating - but at least no lost items so far. There is only one server apparently i was told.

i just love this area nuke! burn spiders, burn!

they have to hire knights to troll for them... it seems minecraft takes all the players nowadays - pretty disturbing to see all my friends (who i used to play mmogs with) spending more and more time with that game.

i have no problem with old school, started with asherons call long time ago :D

crafted my first dagger - tutorial quest reward. my damage is better now... lets see how it goes.

level 3. actually i had to work for the levels; unlike in most modern games, where your first 10 levels are pretty much handed out  right away :)

yeah, when i got some friendly buffs, killing mobs got alot easier.

only thing i hate so far is the midnight darkness hours, have to turn gamma on to see something.

OK, after playing a few hours i realized this game is still in the make, but it looks certainly interesting to check. Crafting system is something i have long been missing from nowadays games.

Someone told me you can actually dig your own dungeons and populate it with crafted items? I will check this tomorrow :)

I have tried digging in desert and found some treasures :P

There is not much info available, except some screenshots and blog at http://mage-online.com/index.php?page=1

In any case i'm downloading it for a quick test.