Where I expected only to find small groups of friends running around, I also found several larger communities that have gravitated to one server or another. When it comes to private servers, the passion of the players parallels that of the dev teams.
It seems as though everything is on the table, from class overhauls all the way to new zones full of original quests and content. They may have started by squashing bugs the original developers never fixed, but now they are redesigning core gameplay elements. These groups have taken their passion projects to the point where they have basically taken over the development of a dead game. Then there are the teams going even further. This is way past the hack and patch work I had expected. Some have started from scratch, spending god knows how many hours to reverse engineer server-side code and recreate art assets to give players an experience as close to the original as possible. These people are pouring their hearts and souls into these projects. Although some small servers are out there, I must admit that some popular servers have much larger communities.Īs far as the coding skills thing goes, some of these projects go well beyond doing the bare minimum to get a server online. You know, a few friends with some coding skills getting together and doing their best to get an old MMO up and running so they could relive the glory days of their favorite MMOs of days past. I’ve always thought private servers were a niche thing. So instead of wasting the extra chunks of time I had available, I decided to explore another area of older MMOs - private servers. With all that was going on, I knew I wouldn’t be able to hunker down and make it through the opening levels of any MMO, but I didn’t want to skip the whole month either.
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