[Asheron's Call 2] Today is the last day for Asheron’s Call 2 and I have the day off from work. Therefore, I will try to play as much as I can today to see how they say goodbye. There has not really been a lot of news out of Turbine regarding any plans they may have, so to be honest my expectations are low.
Here is the first update of the morning. The red X means “offline”.
Checking with the official forums, I find this update from Calandryll:
Hey folks,
Just to let you know, the AC2 servers are not supposed to be down. We are working to bring them back up now.
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-Jonathan “Calandryll” Hanna
The servers came back online and I was sitting at my character selection screen. Talk about a lot of characters. Due to server mergers and such, we ended up with 20 character slots. Check out my army of alts.
We have been given some gifts, one of which is an egg you can use to teleport anywhere in the game world. Someone shouted out the location of an admin area, so off I went. It was in the middle of nowhere, literally. Once there, I noticed a door and some levers. This is going to be cool, I just can’t imagine what great toys the devs have out here.
I pulled the lever. The door opened. I went through. Nothing happened. Oh well.
I was told to make sure that I jumped while here, so I did. Gravity is very light out here, wee!
But what goes up, usually comes down. So, I had to swim back.
We all stocked up on goodies like teleportation eggs, XP eggs, and vitae healing eggs – found in Encomium’s Chests all about the land.
Some people found creative ways to say goodbye. Some people just bowed in silent reflection.
The server I call home, Frostfell, crashed a few times so I ended up on Thistledown for a while. There was a tyrant attack on various locations, involving Lord Deimos and Lady Silva.
We gathered up on top of Deru Tree for a party with Ramen. Pretty good crowd showed up. I even played the drums to join in the motley band.
Back to Frostfell finally, we were attacked by a bunch of giant bugs.
I waved goodbye as I headed out to my final spot, which I called Goodbye Peak.
I watched the sunset and then I switched into my good armor and sun shades.
Prepared for the big event, we get the following message. T-minus 2 minutes. Then 1 minute 30 seconds. Followed by 1 minute. 30 seconds. NOW!
We were all logged out automatically, back into portal space for good.
A final note from Turbine:
December 30, 2005
Empyrean magic has once again fled this world. The battle for Dereth continues on a different plane now. As his final act in this realm, Asheron sealed every portal to contain the expanding horde and protect what is left of the races who called Dereth home.
As of December 30, 2005 the AC2 service is no longer available. Turbine and the AC2 development team would like to express our thanks to the many players who’ve been part of Asheron’s Call 2 over the years. We hope you’ve had as much fun playing the game as we did creating it for you.
It’s never easy to say goodbye to a place you’ve called home, but we hope to see all of you in Turbine’s other worlds.
I’m actually feeling depressed, weird.
- Ethic
I miss this game, i really do. I played AC1 until about 2002, then came to AC2, loved it, met people i still talk to seven years later. People that have seen me grow up, people that i know.
Korin (Spaceman Spiff before server merge), Ranger, Bounty Hunter, Enchanter, Defender, Hero of Dereth. Harvestgain. Shadow faction. The only Shadow in the Order of the Sacred Moon.
I think they should revive this game with 2 servers and make money off of micro transactions like Turbine’s DDO does now.
Put it on STEAM, charge 4.99 for the game, make a killing.