I don’t think I’ll beat that amount of dedication in a game ever again. I was a young teenager when I started playing this game which had eaten all my social life… Guess it is part of me.

Last week I felt some nostalgia and reinstalled the game after ~18 years without touching it. It’s crazy that my character is still there on some server (even if no subscription was paid for all those years), more or less in the state I left it the last time I logged-out years ago. The guild has been erased, but the friend list is still there as a reminder of those past friendships, none of them logged-in of course…

Fun fact, my parents refused to pay for the game at that time, so I started playing on the account of a friend, from which I later bought the game second-hand. The login still contains his name, and I think that’s the oldest login/password I have a trace for.

(Game is Dark Age of Camelot)

  • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
    12·
    9 hours ago

    The most shocking to me, is that those servers are still up and running. In a day and age of dead games, it’s a serious feat.

  • purrtastic@lemmy.nzEnglish
    21·
    16 hours ago

    Seriously though, I never got near those numbers. I did put about 2500 hours into TFC and TF2 before it became a bot hellscape.

    • lolrightythen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      12 hours ago

      Maybe 2500 on 2 accounts that were both my gf and I on rocket league. Usually on the same team. Over several years in our 30s.

      Maybe hit 1000 on worms2demo online as a kid.

      Respect

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    11 hours ago

    I miss the classic era of DAoC and still hum various town music to this day. Cotswold being the most recurring.

      • tpyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        I did too. But I played when they had the starter zone and sadly never got very far out of it. Once in a while I’d find someone who’d invite a high level character to clear a dungeon (or what ever the eq lingo is) but never was able to venture much outside the cities

  • Hux@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    17 hours ago

    I looked up my old character just the other day—my account must had been compromised because all of my gear was gone.

    I could totally see myself going back to play again and pick up where I left off (after 18 years), but I don’t think that’s possible anymore.

  • LemmySoloHer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    17 hours ago

    The Guardian in the back has that look on her face like she just lost a bet that you wouldn’t return until 20 years passed.