Planeshift?

[Gelion]

It is supposed to be a totally free online MMORPG. Is it any good? Does anyone know?

 

[Till]

PlaneShift is under development. The following list represent some of the features of the final product.

* A Role Playing Game!
* 12 races with unique traits for the creation of your character
* Unlimited professions through a skill system
* Original magic system with six Ways of magic
* Hundreds of spells!
* A huge world to explore
* A great number of quests to test your wit and skill
* Monsters and NPCs with good AI that produce game events
* A world that evolves with or without player interaction
* Create your own house or castle
* Politics and economy
* ...

Bolding by me. It sounds good; too good to be free. I haven't played it, but if anybody volunteers to try and gives a good review, i might be up for a CivFanatics Planeshift team.

 

[Gelion]

I was willing to give it a try, but as you said "too good to be true". Whats teh catch? It is supposed to be a free MMORPG, but for how long?

 

[Till]

They use the CrystalSpace engine, which is open source, i think. That would mean they can't make the game commercial without changing the engine.
I suspect the catch is, that the game still lacks most of the promised features.

Also, i wouldn't be suprised if the server were very slow. Online games need a lot of bandwidth. How are they going to pay for it, if they can't charge anything for the game?

 

[Gelion]

Well I will give it a try as soon as I have time
You should too

 

[Till]

Maybe i'll manage during the weekend. But i should be revising.
Keep me updated!