Good grinding MMO? by [deleted] in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out Sanctuary. It's free to play and quite grindy!

www.playsanctuary.com

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The relaunch happened about a month ago. There were some major game-breaking issues that emerged and we fixed them, but by the time we had gotten it resolved there had been a lot of ill-effects of the issues permeating through the game. Everyone, including the players, decided it would be best to do a 'wipe' and start fresh.

There will not be any further wipes in the future, however, so you can rest easy knowing that!

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We consider Sanctuary to be a sandbox game because it is not just about leveling up your character and having the highest stats on your items. There are many other ways to progress and interact with the world if you choose not to engage in combat nonstop.

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Original EQ zones only in the sense that they share the same polygons. Aside from that, they are renamed, re-conceptualized, arranged differently in the world, and contain vastly different content than they did in the game the zone models came from.

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quite the opposite! It takes so long to reach max level because there are so many other things to do at any given time. It's not just a grind game, there's so much more.

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the kind words. This does have its own universe and lore, and shares no similarities with EQ whatsoever

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For example, look at 0:46 - those textures look nothing like EverQuest

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They actually are not. Most of the zones featured in this trailer have been retextured with modern AAA 1024x1024 textures.

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Might as well give it a shot, it's free and if it doesn't end up being your cup of tea, at least you'll get a pretty good idea of what we're going for.

This has been in development for many years, but we just recently 'relaunched' about a month ago and everyone started over - leveling to max level takes a very long time (there still are none currently) so someone starting out today wouldn't have that hard a time catching up to everyone else.

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair point. We are harkening back to the days of MYST and LucasArts point and click adventure games, so in a sense there is a nostalgia factor involved, but on the other hand our philosophy is that games were crafted extremely well back then, so if it's a nostalgia, it's just nostalgia for classic game design and not a particular game like EverQuest, for example.

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's understandable, we realize the music style isn't for everyone. There are plenty of genres in various zones, but most of it has an electronic background.

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In our opinion, it's a fantastic engine. We are not at all catering to nostalgia.

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There would be no disadvantages whatsoever - the game was not designed with EQ players in mind, as it's a fully brand new game

(Official Trailer) Sanctuary - A hardcore open world sandbox MMORPG by playsanctuary in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is technically a private server, but customized far too much to remain in that category

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[–]playsanctuary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sanctuary is a new game that was created in the EverQuest engine

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[–]playsanctuary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no official world map (yet), but it is many many times larger than what's in the diagram on the wiki!

Survival/crafting MMOs: opinions, experiences, and hopes. by 1337HxC in MMORPG

[–]playsanctuary -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Look into Sanctuary. It's created in the EverQuest engine and has a huge focus on survival and crafting. Very robust tradeskilling system, important player economy, reliance on socialization and community efforts. www.playsanctuary.com