Savage Hunt vs Classic

[elexcz]

Hi, which version have more players? Gamigo Savage Hunt or Steam Dragons Prophet?

[rayx0r]

id like to know really what the differences are. i've played both, not sure why they both exist and being marketed as seperate games

[elexcz]

Half year and still no answer, so I think more players are on Savage Hunt or this community is totally unhelpful

[Dragon Protector]

DP better as sh just mroe grind and higher prices

[elexcz]

Nice, thanks. I will play english server

[Dragon Protector]

Do not play from dp client on steam it dead. Servers been moved.

Go so savage hunt website.

[CATTY&Co.]

To get DP has been difficult following a server Migration they did in May 2018. You need to go onto the Savage Hunt forum, find the Dragon's Prophet sub-forum and then find a link to the client under the Migration thread (or Tech Support). The client is actually the SH client but they pointed it at the (virtual) server address and port number for DP.

Long story I'll try to summarize.... Savage Hunt (SH) is actively developed. Dragon's Prophet classic (DP) the publishers are sort of keeping to avoid losing a hard core of long-time players that don't want to make a new character in SH. However, contrary to the developer's plans SH has (I'm told) been losing players while DP's community of a few hundred veteran players has stayed pretty stable.

SH is the same game as DP: in SH they have only opened about 3/4 of the zones so far, and in ♥♥♥♥♥ is possible to catch marketplace dragons for free. (Need to point out that it still costs a lot to build and train a dragon once captured, and marketplace dragons are cosmetic versions of same 3d models and no stronger in their stats and abilities)

SH and DP run side by side on the same (physical) server but any character is either SH or DP they can't move across. The Developer would probably prefer all the old players to just start again and make new character on SH, but they have judged correctly that we wouldn't tolerate being made to do that.

DP is a strange, rarified MMO experience - when the content stopped being expanded and the level cap stopped being raised (4 years ago?) the players started occupying their time making highly-customised items and builds: so now everyone's gear consists entirely of 1-in-a-million items. They recently did an event where they dropped some level 200 bosses into the game. Max level is 105 and a gap of 15 levels in this system is a x2 order of magnitude. So they should have been 8x stronger than the strongest player - well this event did not last long. Everyone is overdeveloped beyond what the developers intended - to the extent that we are playing a completely different game than what the developers intended. To their credit the publishers understand this and kept DP running for us (in case we still want to spend money).

However the veterans staying in DP means that SH will probably struggle to compete with newer flashier cheaper MMOs that also have capturable mounts.

Yes the Steam community is pretty much gone, but I think this is because successive publishers have been gradually disengaging from Steam. On DP I don't think it's currently even possible to buy in-game currency via Steam but that has "normal" for DP for a long time.

[Dragon Protector]

Well good job summorizing it

[Candi]

dragon's prophet origonal is locked up and wont run....savage hunt run's fine and I have seen a few players but gameplay was light today on the french sever: Sknat

[Fru Fru Brigade]

What other MMOs with capturable mounts are there, besides Riders of Icarus?

[Dragon Protector]

All the servers for dp and sh have been merged into 1 so there no language berriar anymore.

[Dragon Protector]

Originally posted by Nezumi:

What other MMOs with capturable mounts are there, besides Riders of Icarus?

I wish I knew.