Anybody here into MMORPGs?

[MikeWalsh]

I simply ask this out of curiosity.

I've only recently "re-discovered" the series of games in this genre from the French game studio Ankama.....including Dofus, Waven, and Wakfu!

I first ran into this last one more than a decade ago, shortly after joining the 'Puppy' community. I was intrigued; downloaded the Ankama Launcher, and installed the game. In those days, it was a .deb package.....you ran the launcher, and it then downloaded and installed the game, with files scattered all over your system.

I messed around with it for a bit, then got side-tracked by other projects and never got back into it again. I'm astounded it's still going after all these years!

Nowadays, it comes as an AppImage, though installation is STILL a 'local' download/install. I thought they might have had a purely online version by now, but no; still the same routine. Not that I mind; with developing the Puppy-'portable' eco-system, I now know how to keep everything self-contained within a single directory.

I'm more into gaming these days, due to change of circumstances as the years have passed. I've actually started running the game proper now, which I never got as far as last time.

I have to say I'm quite enjoying it!

I've put together a quick demo of how this thing functions:-

I'm still a full-time carer.....but these days, some days I'm rushed off my feet, whereas other days I'm twiddling my thumbs for extended periods. So.....

(shrug...)


Mike.

 

[kibasnowpaw]

If you hit roadblocks give me a call i play games dayly on Linux so maybe I know how to get around it

 

[Mineru]

I am presently playing Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted, an old-school MMORPG with very intricate crafting, character build and housing (both biped and dragon lairs), and I am really enjoying my time back on it so far (I left it 13 years ago, and bounced between MMO's in the meantime).

You can play as a fully-fledged Dragon (you start out as a Hatchling though).

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Path of Exile was the only MMORPG I ever played, but sadly it's too much about micro transaction.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@kibasnowpaw :-

I did have one small glitch the day before yesterday. For some inexplicable reason, the installer mechanism "messed up", and hadn't downloaded the most recent build when I was setting this up around 10 days ago.

Last night it simply froze up on me, at the same time giving me a warning triangle in 'Settings'. So I re-downloaded the current, up-to-date build, let it install itself, and everything's behaving itself now.

The "current" version was released around 2 1/2 months back. Turns out that the version that WAS installed, the weekend before last, was released nearly 15 months ago! God above knows what happened there....

....but anyway, all's well that ends well.


Mike.

 

[NicWelds]

I used to be into MMORPGs but I don't have any on the go at the moment. The last one I was really playing was Black Desert.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@Mineru :-

Hmm.... You know, the more I read about Istaria, the more I'm reminded of "The Hobbit".....and especially a host of back-references to "The Silmarillion".

I've been well into Tolkien's stuff for more than 60 years now! Started reading "The Hobbit" my first year at secondary school - it was on our English class's "required reading list". I soon progressed to "Lord Of The Rings", which I must have re-read more than 30 times over all those years.....it's one of those massive tomes which NEEDS multiple re-reads to fully figure out what IS going on half the time.

When I laid my hands on a copy of "The Silmarillion" in my mid-to-late 20s, it filled in a ton of 'gaps' for me (to do with the 'early years'), while at the same time posing a whole host of new questions!

I think true devotees never really tire of the ins-and-outs of Tolkien's entire 'invented' mythos....


Mike.