BioWare Mythic Announces Open Source Dark Age of Camelot

[Etaew]

BioWare Mythic announced today that due to falling subscription numbers and a decrease in funding for development that it is willing to turn to the community in order to keep the DAOC servers on-line and patches being generated, it has made available the complete Dark Age of Camelot source code to the public under the name of Open DAoC

Servers

• - The subscription for Dark Age of Camelot will be removed and the game transitioned to a Free to Play system (See more below)
  - Mythic will continue to run the Ywain cluster to provide a stable service for players
  - Bioware Mythic will host a bug tracking system to allow user submitted fixes
  - Freeshard running and development will be approved

Free to Play

• - A credit based shop will be introduced to the game, adding cosmetic and time saving items such as
  • -- Bounty Point, Realm Point, and Experience boosts.
    -- Master Level Credit and Artifact Credit.
    -- Vanity Pets
    -- Titles
    -- Exclusive Mounts
    -- Unlocking of Tiered battlegrounds past 20
  - There will also be a way to buy cash shop credits for bounty points.
  - All current subscribers to the game will receive in-game credits based on the subscription time remaining.

Open DAoC Launcher

• - BioWare Mythic will take over the development of DAoC Portal
  - DAoC Portal will be integrated with the DAoC launcher to handle securely all account authentication
  - Freeshards will be listed on the other rule-sets category of the DAoC Launcher
  - An API will be released to freeshard server admins to allow logins through the DAoC Launcher

Development

• - As a result of player feedback the default UI's will be removed
  - BobsUI will be installed as standard with the configuration moved to within the game
  - An addon API will be released allowing the community to create game-enhancing add-ons.
  - Constructive developer discussions will take place on VNBoards for the important game-play affecting features.
  • -- Clipping to be enabled in RvR zones, giving tanks a use
    -- Changes to the caster interruption system, using a castbar and knockback
    -- Reduction of classes for each realm
    -- Simplification of combat system, to be easier for new players to pick up

DAoC Producer Interview
Stuart Zissu the producer for Dark Age of Camelot has uploaded a video introduction to the Open DAoC platform.

2012 will see the rise of Dark Age of Camelot as the leading community driven MMO, we at BioWare Mythic would like to thank the community for sticking with us for the last 10 years and we would like to reward all our loyal fans.

See the full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQLeNiNTtbc

APRIL FOOLS

[sooid]

[Tolakram]

Ha!

[Argo]

good show etaew i nearly believed it, well at least until i took a look at the calendar

[geshi]

this needs to actually happen...

[Tenarus]

APRIL APRIL

[Graveen]

Now we can move to another game, we free'd DAoC

[baradien]

hilarisch lol

[Roozzz]

lol, wish it was true.

[Overdriven]

I read that this afternoon and had a what the **** moment. I fell for it

[Etaew]

Bump, since none of us have the time for a unique April Fools this year.

[Argo]

a little too thick etaew, otherwise i had believed it good april fool anyway

[bryon]

I own the domain name of opendaoc. lol so I knew it wasn't true.

[Graveen]

Oh damn i read this necro thread 2/04 and... i get caught

[Overdriven]

Oh damn i read this necro thread 2/04 and... i get caught

Same