Installed today via steam made a quick account and tried to get into it.
After 30 minutes of closing and restarting having no sound in game i decided that with Headsets that use USB and Software apps it doesn’t like Surround Sounds so you have to tick Stereo in the launcher…
Entering the game in 2023 felt like attempting to watch Television from one of those big boxes of TVs that people used back in the 80’s 90’s
The good thing about those was the fact you could just smash them and then worked again.
The controls felt so awkward and combat so clunky and i remembered why i used to hate casters because you had to sprint hop around like bugs bunny called (kiting) to fight otherwise you can just be static pop your skills and heal yourself. I did a ToS.
Then i remembered the only melee classes we like have to actually tank in raids and everyone hates DPS specs with Decrease hate gear. I am talking about Conqueror and DT because Guard doesn’t do anything in terms of damage.
Then again tanking is boring and stressfull.
Anyway i showed the gameplay to few of us and most didn’t like it much.
As for the nostalgia for the game last time i played there used to be 300 people at peak times max most of the time around 100-150 or so but in 2023? Some say its around 80+ people on Crom… lol that used to be the Ghost Town of Fury back in 2020. Even Tortage was empty.
So yeah. Its dead. RIP