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Gamers Aspire to purchase Ryzom
dolphin666
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'A collective of online gaming fans is making a bid to buy an online world and hand it over to the players.
The Free Ryzom Campaign is hoping to purchase the online
fantasy game Ryzom from current owners Nevrax who will go into
receivership in December.
The campaign is raising the necessary capital through pledges and has already received more than 60,000 euros.
If the group is successful it will purchase the source code for the game and distribute it for free.
Avid fans could then write code and contribute to the game's development.
"The game won't change, its more the way people will use
it" said Xavier Antoviaque, a founder of the campaign and an
ex-employee of Nevrax.
"Rather than just consuming the game, everyone will be able to contribute to it."
Future fantasy
Ryzom is what is known as a massively multiplayer online
game (MMO). Other popular MMOs include World of Warcraft (WoW) and
Everquest.
It is set in a world, known as Planet Atys, that fuses science-fiction and fantasy.
Gamers can play as one of four humanoid races who
venture around the world gaining experience by battling creatures and
picking up loot.
The game was created by French developers Nevrax and
released in September 2004. Earlier this month the company was forced
to go into receivership.
A statement on the company's website read: "While the
game will continue to run and be supported, Nevrax (as a corporate
entity) will be going into receivership next month." The exact reason
for the company's bankruptcy has not been disclosed.
However, some gamers believe it could be because the MMO
market has become saturated as developers jump on the MMO bandwagon
hoping to cash in on the success of games like WoW, which has seven
million players worldwide.
The games future will be decide on 4 December when a
Judge and the liquidators will decide whether or not the game and
company can continue to run in its present form.
If it is decided that it cannot, the company will be split up and sold off.
It is at this stage that the Free Ryzom Campaign hopes it will be able to buy the source code, artwork and other game data.
"If nobody tries to buy the game we could have it for
10,000 euros," said Mr Antoviaque. "If there are several people it
could be several hundred thousand euros.
"The more money we get the more likely we are to succeed." '
Comments
I always knew from the beginning this game will fail, guess my intuition came true. That is ever since Ryzom launched into retail. HAHA Owned.
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Playing: The Saga of Ryzom since march 2004
I sleep with a pillow under my gun.
They're pledges, not donations yet.
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We are yet to see if your intuition came true...
I'm not sure it's reasonable to describe a game with thousands of paying subscribers and ranked among the best MMORPGs on this site, as "failing".
Ryzom is currently "Owned" by Nevrax who for financial/legal reasons have to sell, and will shortly be "Owned" by someone else - whether that is to another company or the group this thread is about. Not quite sure where you are finding humour in that.
The ammount of people getting pleasure of negative things never ceases to amaze me....
If this group gets the game someone please tell me where they are going to get the money for servers and bandwidth if they release it for free ???
Is ryzom going to be on private servers with each one different and maybe 30 or so players on each one.
I maybe don't understand how it would work but I would rather see the game dead than having it on private servers with everyone tinkering with the code.
Support Bacteria, its the only culture some people have.
http://www.ryzom.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=79