Imo, there is no and has never been any mmog that comes close to AC1 in the matter of fun factor and even the loot system is the best ever.You do not have to join the same raid 68 times and hope that the boss will drop the item you need(and that item is never unic) but you can find something unic every time you fight a mob grouped or solo. Asherons Call is a unic game and I'm afraid we will never see anything like it ever again.

okeh so lets all pool our moneys together...then we buys the turdbine...then we deletes all the servers except dt...and then reset it!  okeh I'll start taking donations after I put out this blunt...

This is a trick question there has been no better MMO than AC, now or previously.

is there any plan to upgrade the graphics at all for this game?

I used to play WOW and recently are looking for a new game. Maybe AC cannot be called new, but to me, it is!

Like many other here, AC was my first MMO.
Many years and good times were spent playing AC. Very few bad experiences.
I remember the first time we tried to take on Hoary Mattekars . Our Patron thought it would be a good idea at the time.
Needless to say we all died, and died again trying to retrieve our corpses.
More and more people came along to lend a hand in the progressive retrievals and joined the list of dead.
We spent over 4 hours trying to get everything back and my lungs hurt from all the laughing I had done.
The only other game that came close to the level of excitement I had in AC, was SWG .. pre CU.
 I revisit SWG at times but never for very long.  
I have to disagree with some comments about the 3rd party programs though. I went back to AC once after they had been abolished.
As a mage.. trying to buff yourself and then 2 others without the help of a 3rd party program was more than a pain and took so much time that you only had about 20 mins left to do anything.
Admittedly... the bot programs were another story.
I have to say though, that if it was updated, I would definitely resub.

Ah I remember the Hoary.  Fun fight.  I camped that thing for a month.  Made over 50 matty robes.  I think I was in my 20s or maybe near lvl 30 at that time.  All those robes allowed me to trade for anything my vassals and I wanted for the next few months after the Hoary "went extinct".  Then after they filtered out among the population I charged 2 motes every time someone wanted me to erase my inscription I put on them.  Atlan weapons for all my vassals

If you find a matty robe on Frostfell inscribed by Locrian, I made it!

UO (pre:trammel) in my opinion beats AC1

Just my opinion

AC1 was my first MMO as well. One thing that I think really distinguishes it from other MMOs is that there were no transportation methods aside from the portals, and those were limited in how they were used. Exploring really felt like exploring due to not having a mount and having to run everywhere on foot. Yeah, it was slow, but when you got the portal spell, that really meant something. Looking at the map, I remember wondering if I'd ever see some of the far off places simply because they were so far away.

Dumping points in to Jump and Run were fun as well. I may not have been able to kill things very well, but by God, I could jump on buildings. :)

My 1st experience with an mmo, was AC1. And I have been searchin eversince.

Add me to the 1st MMO, searching ever since list as well.  Everything have played since gets compared to AC1.  Nothing has ever come close.  Regret ever leaving.  Always wanted to see a Tusker Shaman.... BONK ROAR ZAP!

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Everquest was.

I tried both.

The funny thing is that every single person I spoke with about those two games STRONGLY preferred the one they first played for any length of time.

AC1 feels like home to you guys,  Everquest felt like home to me :)

I never played Everquest.  But I was introduced to AC by a player who had played Everquest and said AC was far better.  And when he said this he was comparing release Everquest to beta AC.  So it seems some people don't fall in love with their first.   That idea definitely fits me though.  AC was my first and no MMO since has captivated me.

Me and said friend have actually started playing AC again as of a week now.  After 7 years of being away.

I joined the game just after the Shadow Wars and was devastated that I missed it, listening to the stories that my friend told me of that got me into the game. I played this game with both my parents and still is the best time I've ever had playing a game online.

It wasn't my first MMO, as UO has that card. I enjoyed both games for their completly open and vast worlds to explore. You could participate in PvP, exploration, and socialization in both games. Not to mention that complete freedom with customizing your character with gear, skills, etc.

Except on few occasions you rarely ever saw someone using the same gear, those being GSA, Focusing Stone, Matty Robe, etc. Once you found an upgrade you could pass on your gear to a friend, alt, vassal, etc. it wasn't bound to you only to destroy at some vendor that then no one else could buy. Which leads me to the vendors in that game, like someone previously mentioned you could wait around them looking for something interesting to be dropped off for an upgrade.

I remember seeing someone with the Atlas Sword and wanted it, immedietly. I farmed golems with my parents for a whole week to get all of us the motes we needed and power leveled my Swordsmanship as high