Recently something got my attention, Mu online now is backing up to the old days, when i leave it 2006.
Let's tell the history from(almost and with less details) the beginning.
Everything started with something called internet, well, that's something new in 2002 for me, so i was an offline player, my first contact with the information that exist people playing together from a lot of parts of the world was from ...
Phantasy star online( i had a dream cast), 2002.
That was pretty attractive, but i didn't got my DC connected to the world wide network to play this thing.I had to wait for awhile and there came something interesting but limited ...
Then i got a fast internet connection(broad band), it was around 2003 i guess, what was incredible, no more noise to connect to the internet(ya 56k always was playing some weird music during the connection haha ;) and the speed was amazing.
I don't known exactly when but, i was navigating and i saw an annoucement saying "MMORPG 14 days trial", MMORPG was a cryptic name for me.
Guild Wars, end of 2003
So i got it, and tried to play till it end with my "credits".
Most times i was amazed to see people talking in english, spanish, and something more that i couldn't understand hehe, but every time i was a annoying noob following them to see what they were talking, and that was fun, always haha.The first time that i was awaked 4:30 am playing a game ;).
Ohhhh(great ohh), the time was running out, 14 days is too few for who saw the first time a MMO, even if it's really bad(the first time times, we are always the "kids" hehe)
What i could do to replace it?
Desperatly i started looking for the new keyword, "MMORPG", and ya, i found, but in the final was not what i expected(im refering to the limitation of the time...).
Star War Galaxies(wow, when a noob see it, LOL, he get's crazy), beginning of 2004
Star Wars, one of the best sci-fi movies IMHO.
What i can say about this, everything was perfect, you can build your house, get pets, fight against people for fun, do really nice quest's, a lot of professions, a really great environment to explore, cities had parties in clubs, nice things, nice things, really hehe.
Nothing could be less than it, its a game based on STAR WARS boy!!!
But when enjoying playing that amazing game, i thought that i could do it for a long time.
What?Explain please?
I was playing a new trial version, other fuxxing "14 days" thing, but i thought that i could always get new serial-keys, i was wrong...
Man, i have to say, for 14 days i played it like if i was play it for let's say, 2 years is too few, so, i fall down, ohh really, it's just a game, but, i was making friends there, the game was really incredible, for the first time i talked with people that you don't known physically, and it was much more exiting, people from US, Mexico, Portugal, really nice, that was the best game i played till today, sad i couldn't keep going to the servers, but i tried ;(
The game, was the GAME, till today i never saw any equivalent in any aspect, i don't known but, for the first time i didn't say that anything could be improved, i was really in silence, playing the perfect game.
In that time i started to look in the internet for people interested in implementing a emulation for that server, too soon, this came( god heard me \o/) later, but because of something they didn't like in the game, an upgrade that SOE made ...
Here you can find something about the old game i played, and what it's now.
Well, that's another adventure, but, i have to say, there is some truly Jedis that worked on this project, some in the SWGEMU and some in SWGANH teams.
Skilled 1337 guys, some that i believe that is or was a part of the scene of the old ...
Well, i'm nothing but, i known most times
The spirit of these guys lead me to another world
Le'ts stop here, that's enought ;)
Stoping to play this game lead me to try another one, i believed, oh maybe there is something equevalent out there, i need to give a try.Find things to try was easy, find things that really deserve to be played, hard, extremly hard.
I played some games, that's sux, other too, so ahhh, i'm not going to try more, so i decided to play a game ...
Global Mu online, 2004
This game was really sux, at the first moment, you can't change the camera, you don't have ways to get nice pets to mount like SWG does, you have a piece of ... of map, ugly characters, ohh you can't choose the appearance of the character(just equipments), planets to travel? LOL
for(;;;)printf(",no...");
That game(environment+people ;) taught me a lot of things, ohh the first thing we learn is, doen't matter sometimes what a game have to offer, this can be circunvented throught the community, the community is the main feature a MMO(not just a MMO ;) has.
But, i have to tell the truth, to say something about an MMORPG's or to say in general aspect about MMORPG's, you have to play it, for at least 2 years, no, don't tell me that MMORPG's was made to play for less time, that's not a FPS game.
I played that game for almost 3 years, was when i became a hard core MMO player(today im resting hehe).
When i stoped, oh you can see, 2006, that was the second thing the game taught me, don't mix games with money like happend.
One little example with something that can be easly understood.
Does when we play soccer, there is someone using a car in the middle of the field because he was able to buy the judge to do so?
Why we don't have that flexibility in sports?
Because that doesn't works.Sports are in some aspect, fun, it's not a work, the competition can make it be like that but, the games ended up like that anyway, , even if that wasn't the goal.An activity that you do for fun in the beginning, later it become a competition, when the "exploration" of what is unknown end, you have to explorate something else ...
Sounds strange but, that game brought that thoughts.
The money to maintain the game can't directly influentiate the game, that's something that must be keept to make the game nice for everyone.Advertising like in the TV? yes, could be some of the alternatives(more and more people can access the internet each day, thats sure).
Anyway i had something more, like i wrote, the community is the bigest feature when something else is lacking ...
Great times, playing a lot, till 4:30 a.m., sometimes more when i could ;)
Thats just another illustrative image
Great friends, in the battle of the game, in the market of the game, really fun, i was a player of the Wigle.When i was not fighting i was at the server 2, selling some stuff, something really impresive, in a game i think we have a true school to learn economy, not throught books, throught the "reality", living it, it makes you discover what really make sense, and what can break the rule of the
The law of supply and demand,we learn that there is a lot of things related to it, we just have to find what make people thought what they need...(that's too dangerous to tell the public, ;) lol
In the game at the beginning there was a lot of duppers, but i was lucky because when i joined the Admins of the server cleaned some amount of dupped items, but still left a lot of dupped items, who had, was complaining about missing it ... ohh don't tell me ...
There was a Ph.D there in economy(that's true?playing Mu online?oO?i don't known, he just told me it), i was trying to get better results than him, i almost could do it, but he started with more items than me(a lot more), that lead me to another rule of economy, when more you have money, sure, more easy is to make it grow.
Was really fun, i don't remeber his name/nick name but
The market was a good play, till i get really into this world and discovery the corrupted area, i heard a lot of histories saying that friends stolen friends, some from trade hacks in the market and so on, that is something that i didn't want for me, i believe that some of my "friends" were doing it, because sometimes i was for a long times in the market and even with lucky making money i was so far from them.How could them get so much things in little time?
What i was getting in 1 weeks hardly they could get in 1 day. Oo
But i have to say, i was one of the best dealers ;).Some times i think, you just have to believe that is luck, nothing more.
I was a fighter, not a seller, my bests friends came from this way to play.What we do in the battle aspect is basically get experience to get more points to add to our status, train a lot with friends in duels to get accurately with the tatics and skills, get the best way to make a strong armor and the weapon, the best way to use a specific armor with a specific weapon, known when to use the approach of having a lot of HP or being fast in the attack, learn to known when someone is "cheating", and a lot of things that are necessary to have a good battle ;).That's basic, i always was fighting at the server 2 pg(when it was a PVP server),
There is basically 2 kind of players that focus on the battle, one goal is to fight against mobs other is to fight in PVP.
My character was 80% to pvp and 20% for mobs.A Dark Knight.
With a little HP i needed to be fast, i'm a fan of
I made a lot of friends while in the server 1/2 selling stuff, but really most times i was more, much more interested in the duels i could do there with some legendary people( i was always waiting for some one big appear there and i challenge him for a duel) we were calling them "pros".The guilds in the Mu online after some time were starting making a legacy of pro players, some of the well known guilds have changed their names(some times) but not the members.That was a matter of honor.And fight with them(when i could) always i felt
The expectation is great when you really work to make your "char" strong and is few seconds to start a battle with a legendary "char"(seldom but happens once a year!).Great time man, even to just look a fight between for example a guy from BLKPerl with some other guy ;), when you see for the first time wow hehe, thats rare really, the "pros" always play less than the others, and when they appear on the scene, dam ...
And you just talk with your friends when watching the battle "ohh, he could use X, with Z, and Y to skip it, he need improve it ..." noobs talking about the masters ;)
Who knowns the legendary RED_knight? something like that, wow, that guy is some of the best in the PVP, sometimes you could find him outside of the town with the PK status, everyone could kill him without being PK, but no one could really, literaly kill him, you could see a bunch of people going to his direction and casting everthing they knewn. Some times even the other "pros" couldn't kill him easly, but when someone at his "level" was at the same place, then there was the expectation haha.There were other great chars there like SaintShaka, SaintKanon, but i never fought with any of them, but i saw they fighting(rarely too) ;).
Ohhh, that RedKnight i didn't known much, wasn't really a friend, i just saw him some times, but i known other that is a part of the most stronger chars in that time, the "whitetiger", something like that, while he was with 3K of HP i was with 8XX, and, some times i won in the duel(rarely but i did), hehe im fast, i didn't known one more fast than me in that game, no one, the whitetiger was the only one more closer to my speed, the others just use the HP to win, ya thats allowed, but i guess that i deserve such respect by not losing much even with little HP ;)
You can say, ohh there is Banga from BLKperl but i never saw any duel with that guy, never, he was always in Tarkan afk, getting experience.His level? 33X, some moths before i quit the game.
whitetiger level was 30x at that time, when i was 28X.And i think that is very possible that in the duel that Banga is <= (less or equal) whitetiger, nothing more.Unless someone play for him, because being afk for 1 year(hmm 3 years? ;D) is too much, he has no abilities to make a good duel ;)
The whitetiger for me was one of the hardest to win, i won a lot of duels against the firsts 29x when i was still getting the Combo skill.
Today i see that everyone has level 400, they make that game a crapy game, i see.Like all those people now(i guess) in the Star Wars Galaxies is a Jedi.
That's all ilusion, the original game wasn't meant to be like that, so, for me, those people are still noobs.
Noob table
Mu online: everyone after K2 get the game...
;)
There is a lot of histories, some people always was talking with me why they are like that, the reasons behind all those things.The game became more than just a game.When it happens its really nice some times, but some are not, i saw some saying "i go where you live, i go get my stuff back even if i have to kill you..." bad, calm down guys, its just a game(there is the time to say it haha).
From people of 8 years to people with 80 years playing the game, most were 16-35.
Families playing the game, i could see 3 or 4 families setbacks the "chars".
I miss some friends , that was really sad sometimes.When that happens it's like in the real life, when somebody is going away, you known... hehe
Before i leave the game, 1 year before( ;] ) we were doing competition in who could be the top, the best warrior of the Wigle.
I say, there is nothing better than something organized by ourselves that understand the stuff then let the others that don't understand it, do it.
We kept it almost secret, selecting just the most interested people. I were annotating the duels, who won and who i could influence to make a new duel with someone else to see who is more stronger, i did it a lot of times in lorencia, server 1 in the Wigle, i didn't tell to the people that i was annotating the ranking of the duels( just for my closer friend hahah).
I made some other "chars", a Magick Gladiator and a Dark Wizad(who was always selling stuff in the server 1 ;).
Is really nice have more than one account, specially if you want farm, or even train to get experience, you can put a "char" in the server where people make the market while you are doing your job in tarkan for example ;)
But i could do it rarely, when i could my brother wasn't at home, so i could use his PC to do it :]
There is something that makes every "char" before 180 be very anxious.
The wings, the first wings, i guess is the most expected item in the whole game before the Tarkan&Icarus maps.
1st Wing
In that time we were all honored to get those wings, the level 180 with 1x(today is something ridiculous, the server sometimes is hiting 8x more than the normal experience, LOL, what $.$ do to the games), when you get it you think you are "pro" or becoming one haha.
As you see, the website introducing the Tarkan&Icarus maps
When Webzen introduced the Atlants some folks heard that there could be another wing comming, but it just came in the next great update, when introduced the Tarkan and Icarus map.
Icarus?
The dream, hunt there till you find precious items, an incredible place, phoenix, wow, who remember some trying to kill it ALONE, lol, some times i was there with whitetiger LOL, he killed it alone, take a lot of time but he did, sure i helped a bit ^^, i was there with the inventory filled with life potions, the big ones, just for fun ...
After that game i have played the ...
Rappelz, 2006
That game is not so good, there is much less people than Mu online and much less things to explore, ya, i didn't like it much, so after playing for 1 year i stoped.But there is some things that if compared to Mu online this game is much better, one of the examples are the Map, really much better, much bigger, every char can have your own pet(in Mu online just DL can do it), ya maybe its no so bad, but the battle is really sux, compared to Mu online its almost a static battle.
I made one great friend there, hes from Holanda, hes nickname is misterious, something that came from sci-fi cyberpunk movies, one of the more success in the hollywood ;)
Well, and now ?
Im just playing with the Linux and with something more ;)
Maybe later i can add stuff here.
The question, after 2 years, it's time for more one little adventure?
Even if i don't back, i whish they feel what i felt before, in the "Golden Ages" of the Mu online.
My nickname in the game?
I'll keep it secret for now ;)
Everywhere can be a good place, better, with good friends ...
;)
