Ryzom is restarting...

[Bryan]

The Ryzom team has announced that the MMORPG Ryzom will stop free style from the month of February in 2009 and back to pay-to-play style. They gave the reason as "Ryzom cannot develop and prosper as a 'free-to-play' game forever", and they have released Ryzom's New Pricing structure as follows. I am sure you will be pleased with the new prices.



Players have been dreaming of it since the appearance of MMO's. The Ryzom Ring does it!

For the 1st time, MMORPG players will be given the tools they need to create their own game spaces and scenarios. The Ring allows players to be creators, giving them the power to decide the way they want to play, offering a unique game experience to the whole community that has never seen within an MMORPG.

Those are some pretty nice prices, as low as 8.83 a month, not bad.

[ZormaX]

Damnit.



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[TheWiseGuy]

now i just wish all other mmo's followd this pricing method

[Mordar]

now lets hope the game doesn't die again because of poor playerbase

[DarkLight]

bye bye Ryzom lol

[manmad]

aww i wish i played it when it was free

was it that good to make it p2p?

[rhdonald]

Good luck to ryzom for being p2p

[ChickenDewd21]

I don't think it was the price that caused Ryzom to shut down in the first place, I think it was the game. ;o From a consumer standpoint, seeing that Ryzom is a few bucks cheaper than other current MMO prices causes me to think that the game experience will be lower quality and I won't even want to subscribe in the first place. I don't think this train will keep chuggin' for too long. ;/

[Icharou]

Bye bye Ryzom!

[Stranger]

Lol, cool game, too bad it rejected my router and only let me play for 3 minutes before having to close the game out. (Seriously, what kind of game hates on routers?)

[Proxzor]

and the game will die again...

[Mordar]

it's sad tho, ryzom it's a great game but from a marketing stand-point I doubt it can compete against monsters such like FFXI or WoW

it will have it's loyal playerbase but it won't be viable on a monetary basis

[TaikoxKashi]

aww i wish i played it when it was free

was it that good to make it p2p?

Yeah, it was actually one of the best MMOs i've played. I don't think im gonna p2p it though, busy with other things. :/

[®age.]

Ryzom has the same problem as tabula rasa and other games. The game's setting/background doesn't appeal enough players, which leads to a major fail ;/

[Grable]

Hahhaha Ryzom p2p? Good luck with that, chaps.

[Arturnik5]

Hahhaha Ryzom p2p? Good luck with that, chaps.

Honestly, it deserves it more than 60% today's p2p games.
First it's a sandbox game, then community is great, you can combine and create your skills, sci-fi setting, crafting, great progressing system.

I mean, 90% of players quit the game in the tutorial because it's a sandbox game - you dont have arrows here leading you to quest, and ? ! next to the NPC so you know where to go.
I think that makes it more challenging and better, but that's only me

[sinnful]

Ryzom shut down due to legal problems not because of the player population. It is a niche game and was never expected to have massive population. By it going P2P the development team will have money to allow the game to grow and have more content.

P2P > F2P any day of the week you cheap bastards.

[drachir]

That's pretty expensive... Dont think much people will play it, I didnt like it even when it was f2p.

[SnOwBunZz]

P2P > F2P any day of the week you cheap bastards.

since when does P2P mean its a good game?

[MrWafflez]

Not a game I'd pay a monthly fee for. I'd buy it if it was a one-time fee.

[Thas]

That's pretty expensive... Dont think much people will play it, I didnt like it even when it was f2p.

Expensive? o.o Way cheaper than most p2p games out there.

[boinker]

there gonna start over, then probably close again, then get back up again.

[Shard_Luck]

It COULD be a good game if it were free....

Not worth paying for at all.

[zeroburrito]

I didnt like this game either :/ I dont see how people would pay to play it.. But I also dont see how millions of people are dumb enough to pay for WoW.. so dunno

the people that use the cash shop for f2p games are even worse. how could you possibly pay for games that are so horrible and generic?

[hengyu]

I won't want to play even if it's F2P, let alone P2P.