The Good Old Days

[Erik]

I have official quit Stronghold Kingdoms after 5 years of play on mainly World 1, a little bit of World 2 and Europe. The reasons are the exact same as the good old Runescape. The old Stronghold Kingdoms around 2010 was amazing. Only one world and very active chat. A newbie serf could play forever and not have to take a break because of the vast amount of chat and activity. Now a days the chat is dead, no one talks and I only find beggers.

There are also the legends, Pledosophy, Peps, Knight of the White Stag. These are just some of the players which made the game great, some are still around but have shut themselves out from the world.

Lastly, all the damn worlds. When World 2 game around there was a giant jump and everyone was super excited. People were so happy you could play two games at once now and times were awesome. Than Welt 1 came out, this was the downfall of SHK. After Welt 1, Firefly just kept pumping out maps which turned out only to contain 1000 players. They became very inactive and boring.

Well that was why I am quiting SHK, hope you guys follow.

[-KOMMANDO-]

I will have to agree with you but i dont want to quit playing . I just wont ever spend a SINGLE euro on this game EVER again.
Firefly killed this AWESOME game by craving more and more money through opening new worlds every month.

[RazingHel]

I tend to agree with you, I also started out on UK world 1 in late 2011. Chat back then was active and fun, it's all but dead now. The capital forums back then where a fount of wit with KotWS on his civility policies, now they are a hotbed of trash talk where common insults and epeen beating is all you really see.

I've stopped playing the game seriously but still moderate the forums and farm, I really do love the franchise and most of the community. Too many new worlds fragmented the playerbase despite rapid growth after the Steam and Mac releases. Either Firefly needs to find way to close or reset old worlds without disgusting players who have invested thousands of dollars and hours in it.

[Strygald]

The first time I played this was back in.. well there was only 2 worlds and the 2nd had just started. The game felt like more fun back then and I met some great people.

Coming back and seeing all these worlds.. it reminds me of Lords of Ultima which did the same thing, opening a new world every few months and never closing old worlds; makes the community too fractured. Also, other decisions based on greed such as allowing players to have up to 1000 cities each while needing to hand over real money to be able to maintain so many. If you chose not to have many cities and so not need to pay real money to manage them, then you were at a huge disadvantage to players with craploads of cities.

Anyhow, I think the fractured community especially did a huge number on Lords of Ultima, so it's not surprising that they've permanently shut down all of their servers now...