by SlicerSV on Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:50 pm
The best online game has by far got to be the game I'm playing that's run on a fully customized emulated everquest server. I wouldn't dare link anyone to it here, since SOE has thrown fits about the game in the past.
The game uses no real code of the real everquest servers, none of the staff have ever been anything beyond GM at SOE's EverQuest, and the lore and content is all entirely different. (for example Kaladim, for those familiar with Everquest, once the city of dwarves, is now a cave of the undead.)
The content in that game is so very engaging, you can easily forgive them for never having very many more than a thousand users on at a time. And that's uber peak time, very rarely reached. They normally have no more than 400-500 online at standard peak time, and there are times that you log on and there are only 20 other people on.
For people that love to roleplay, I mean, truly "get into" your character, there's good news at this game, they have a "cult" of active roleplayers.
I'm being very careful here to not even name this game, but trust me, it puts all the other online games available to complete shame.