My experience has been that private servers will never come close to the original so called happy times players had.This however is also true when the studios themselves try and recreate that vanilla feeling,it just NEVER happens the same. I believe there is a simple reason and that is eventually all games begin to lose players and profits become less.So these dev studios are not in the position to make costly high end changes but instead look for cheap cost cutting ideas,lazy ideas.This type of cheap lazy change happens both with NEW content and changing old content.

The argument was if the changes were the correct changes.Well over many games and many years of different games i have seen what appears most often as studios making very poor decisions over time. The game's servers were shut down on 31 July 2014.SWG was imo the first real drama when comes to changes in gaming.I dissected it and felt change was definitely warranted.I feel it would have been a far worse travesty if Smedley said NO CHANGE and just let it bleed players and completely die.

The game was released in the United States and Europe on 30 January 2013. In June 2012, Sony Online Entertainment announced that it would publish Wizardry Online outside Japan. In October 2011, an open beta was launched in Japan. There was also a limited selection of items available for in-game gold. Wizardry Online used microtransactions to support itself. Player characters that have been killed could be looted of their belongings by other players. Open world player versus player (PvP) was also featured in the game. Each class has a requirement for a number of points in a one or more attributes in order to select that class. Similar to previous Wizardry games, a new character would receive bonus points they can assign to attributes. Wizardry Online features five races as well as four classes. The chance of losing your character can be reduced by sacrificing items. A more dangerous addition to the gameplay was the potential for permanent death. Like many MMORPGs, players could create their own characters and explore and advance in an open world with other players that are also connected.

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