Population

[[NB]Lesr]

Steam charts says like 50 peeps, is this game only on Steam? I cant find a non steam client.

[Swing]

I see NA people trying to recruit in the forums, but every time I log in, at least 90% is KoK, and considering all of the squigglies after their names, I doubt they're NA.

[[AS-SCoB] Havic]

If they ever do an update fixing all fighter and mage classes, myself and about 100 other people would come back to the game. But as of now the game is not any good.

[Swing]

There are way more gamebreakers than that.

[Mr Conspicuous]

Games over for NA players... it's been over since about 3rd month post launch.

[serya.gaming]

So if 2 servers are closing is that last one going to be the main server now? Or is a new one coming?

[serya.gaming]

Ok I had to reread the post a few times but is Gram the server that is staying? Which would make sense.

[{LK} Acid]

If you are looking for a home lemme know I run a guild on gram

[[AS-SCoB] Havic]

Didn't mean to open a huge discussion. Was just stating the obvious. I would like to play again sometime if they ever make changes for the fighter and mage classes to be viable again. I had alot of fun playing. Feel free to email me or message me.

[rluvsdolphins]

Gram server is still active. Dark Soul's is recruiting

[Swing]

Serious question... is it all just pvp in random battles/mines now? Or has anyone launched a bane lately?

[chevyzz]

pvp random battles, fight for guards. mines. kok tried to bane a r8 of ours last time and got dismantled. havent since.

[chevyzz]

i get the game isnt what it use to be. but it is still active in a sense. you wanna fight someone to gank, go to gaurds or hotzones, or hell when mines open.

[IAngryDad]

its still lively enough if ur looking for fights you will get them

[Swing]

Thank you for the prompt replies. I wasn't necessarily trying to make a point, I was just wondering what the scope of the game was presently.

[Mr Conspicuous]

Originally posted by BoxxyB:

At this point I'm not even sure you know what you're talking about. How did the game have a higher population at the end of 2004 when it was still pay 2 play and how exactly did the game die a year after 2004 when Throne of Oblivion released when the game officially closed in 2009? because you're mentioning a beta and that was in early 2003

and I read exactly what you said. You cried about thieves being given parity with assassins when before hand they really only had 2 things the thief class was even good at if you could even call it good, you then lamented about mage armor which is mostly irrelevant in PVP at least 70% of the time, and then you went off about how vampires not being able to restore their entire resource pool in a single cast. Am I wrong? is that not what you said?

Never once did I say I disagreed with you but to think that a character that uses its health resource to cast spells that can regularly stun, and dish out hundreds upon hundreds of damage in a few seconds should be able to fill its resources instantly is insane.
when I brought up disciplines and in the entirety of my post was to make a point of how broken and unchanged shadowbane was and the final bit was more clowning about another terrible emulator project but you can sit here and cry about people playing bane spec necromancers and scouts as vampires because they're broken and have been since ToO released. Thats your problem. I know I'm not going to waste my time again reading a post by someone that is half incoherent whining that wants to throw insults because of their lack of conveyance and typography

Shadowbane launched in USA March April 2003. I had just graduated HS and owned the game and played it 70-80 hours per week at that point and I played on the Death server. that Christmas Rise of Chaos came out, Dec 2003. Then EU launch happened in 2004 along with 2004 Christmas Throne of Oblivion released and a surge of life came back into the game which was short lived.

Not to mention Death server was closed before Throne of Oblivion even launched because population dip. My characters were migrated to Wrath server then Wrath server closed I migrated to Mourning but I had began played on Cataclysm server around that time which had monthly wipe cycle until it was also closed within just a handful of months.

I bounced from Test server a lot due to free runes and fast EXP from 2005 to 2007. Then test completely died in 2007... test looked a lot like shadowbane looks now with changeyou by end of 2007. So I just played Mourning until game closed in 2009. In 2007 the game was very dead but held onto the diehard playerbase and I was there online in 2009 when servers went down for good.

All in all shadowbane took a massive dip in population before RoC even launched. In 2004 it surged back but only because game was opened to EU playerbase and ToO also launched just months after EU launch... but same ole same ole it was dead again by end of 2005 and just kept bleeding players HARD and by 2007 it was a shell of it's former self. Xander and SBG tried their best to save the game but its the concept and design. The community ruins this game because this game is mean't to grief the ♥♥♥♥ outta every. Any game you work 80 hours per week on to build a community and city etc. and all that be destroyed in a matter of days? A product destined for failure.

Shadowbane's to this day is the most toxic video game I have ever played. And I was pretty toxic when I played and grieved the ♥♥♥♥ out of everyone... hell even my own guild. My best friend and I were reason dragonscale stopped openly recruiting and reason thieves were banned from dragonscale. We stole from guildies, we backstabbed them, hell we were errant IDK how many times and just started wrecking guildmates with heal priest alts on macro.