DAoC Platinum Edition

Mythic Entertainment announces a new version of Dark Age of Camelot that includes all four of the expansions for the MMORPG, a strategy guide, a free month's play, and a trial version to hook a friend. Be sure to use the Dr. Evil finger quotes if you read this aloud:
FAIRFAX, VA – June 29, 2004 - Mythic Entertainment, developer and publisher of the critically-acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing game, “Dark Age of Camelot(R),” today released “Dark Age of Camelot: Platinum Edition,” containing the original game and all four expansion packs. The retail expansions, “Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles(TM)” and “Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis(TM),” as well as free expansions, “Dark Age of Camelot: Foundations(TM),” and the recently released “Dark Age of Camelot: New Frontiers(TM),” are included in the "Platinum Edition," along with an introductory player’s guide, a one-month free subscription to the game and a complimentary trial copy of the game that players can give to a friend.
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Jun 30, 2004, 00:50
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Jun 30, 2004, 00:50
 
"There were PvP servers that ran based on either lighty or darkie or neutral (no different than DAoC's RvR in a lot of ways) in EQ."

Thank you for responding with that, I was waiting for someone to try and compare the two.

I did play on these servers, I played on sullon zek I believe it was called, which was the evil vs good vs neutral server.

You have the audacity to compare that cookie cutter PvP where there was minimal to no rewards offered towards players for success, to DAoC's RvR system? You have got to be joking me.

In DAoC you have frontiers where armies compete to take keeps, and their corrasponding towers, you have siege warfare and multiple strategies available to you to attack a location to try and hold your supply lines together so you can re-inforce your position with troops. You have various rewards like +exp bonus or +crafting bonus or +power regen, you have RP's which in turn earn you Realm Abilities to further your characters, you have Darkness Falls, which becomes available to you if you are dominating in the RvR battlefields, you have ALL these bonus' that become available to the players for participating in RvR, and what does EQ's PVP servers offer their players? Please, explain to me, in detail, what EQ offers.

In EQ's PvP servers, you had a buncha people running around slaughtering each other for "points", it was hardly a RvR system, it wasnt even a very well thought out PvP system, it was added years after release with the only intention of shutting up the fans who kept requesting such a feature. It has minimal thought put into it, and to this day it would barely even compare to DAoC's RvR system when it was in ALPHA STAGE!

There was no territorial capture points, no keeps, no progressive accomplishments to be had, how can you even begin to try to compare the two?

Please feel free to inform me of the many many features of EQ's PvP system, I would love to hear them.

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Jun 30, 2004, 00:04
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Jun 30, 2004, 00:04
 
'Tell me, where is the RvR in EQ?'

There were PvP servers that ran based on either lighty or darkie or neutral (no different than DAoC's RvR in a lot of ways) in EQ. So obviously you thought nothing or had much comprehension past the carebear server you probably played on.

TOA wasn't supposed to change RvR according to Mythic and NF was supposed to assist underdog realms in RvR. Who did it end up benefitting on release? Any form of caster, archer or stealther (not even going to get into the LOS exploits of animists). Who became pretty much obsolete and delegated to running siege? Tanks and tank hybrids. And as for TOA, it's nothing more than evercamp all over again.
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Jun 29, 2004, 21:57
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Jun 29, 2004, 21:57
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Do you have a better idea for naming? Gold/Platinum/Game of the Year editions are the norm, and I certainly don't have a problem with getting more bang for the buck. Let's call it "Dark Age of Camelot with Four Expansions" and see how people like it.

Well, how does Joe Gamer (who doesn't keep up on this stuff) know which version to buy, when there's Gold/Platinum/Game of the Year editions? Is Plat better than Gold? Is GOTY better than the other two? Which has been on the shelf longer, and which one is newer and patched? The Sims is a great example of this - there's 2 or 3 different versions now that combine the original game with SOME (but not all) of the expansions...

So, no, I don't have a better idea for nameing - but they sure as hell could simplify it a bit.



There is the theory of the moebius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop time becomes a loop time becomes a loop http://www.loopz.co.uk/
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Jun 29, 2004, 20:43
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Jun 29, 2004, 20:43
 
"Post TOA/NF the game is nothing more than a reworked/rewrapped EQ"

Its called RvR, and its the most entertaining aspect of DAoC, on top of the PvE that it shares with EQ.

Tell me, where is the RvR in EQ? Thats what I thought.

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Jun 29, 2004, 20:26
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Jun 29, 2004, 20:26
 
Anythign wrong with an extremely successful copy of EQ but in a different setting? Not everyone wants the extreme fantasy of EQ... I'd actually prefer DAOC's medieval setting to the crap the EQ is. Even though I've never played either

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Jun 29, 2004, 19:42
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Jun 29, 2004, 19:42
 
Or how about let's just call it Dark Age of Camelot : Waste your time edition. Post TOA/NF the game is nothing more than a reworked/rewrapped EQ.

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Jun 29, 2004, 19:00
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Jun 29, 2004, 19:00
 
Do you have a better idea for naming? Gold/Platinum/Game of the Year editions are the norm, and I certainly don't have a problem with getting more bang for the buck. Let's call it "Dark Age of Camelot with Four Expansions" and see how people like it.

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Jun 29, 2004, 17:16
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Green Clovers, Yellow Diamonds, Purple Horseshoes, etc...

It's be like the "DAOC: Lucky Charms Edition"

There is the theory of the moebius, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop time becomes a loop time becomes a loop http://www.loopz.co.uk/
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Jun 29, 2004, 16:51
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Jun 29, 2004, 16:51
 
The Dark Age of Camelot Diamond edition, Emerald edition and Sapphire edition???

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