Thanks, Smed!
Tweeting your respect for the EMU folks who bring dead MMOs back to life gave
Massively OP the opportunity to start a conversation in their comment section, which, of course, like most sane people, I never read.
Only, for some inexplicable reason, this time I did.
And thanks, also and more so, to BritoBruno, Massively OP commenter, who popped in near the top of the thread (just as well because I didn't get much further) to mention the existence of
Return of Reckoning, a Warhammer Online private server running under an ongoing
WO emu project.
As BritoBruno says, "
It's an alpha, so, a lot of broken things", but it works! Registration is minimal, the files all download and unzip properly, the Launcher opens the game and there you are. Back.
I made a Squigg Herder, one of my top five all-time favorite MMO classes. I fiddled with the UI a bit and then wandered out and started plinking. The place was heaving. The server holds a thousand players and I was in the mid 900s when I logged in.
All the RvR action is in T3 if the lively global chat is anything to go by. Be a while before I get anywhere near that. I managed Level 2 in about twenty minutes. I was rewarded with a Pack Mule, possibly so-called because he was already in my pack when I opened it.
Really, all I want to do is work out how to do Scenarios so I can Squigg Herd in Nordenwatch again. That was the best instanced PvP ever, pranging Order off the walls into the sea.
Never say never again.
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