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Dark Age of Camelot Gameplay First look gameplay MMORPG video + commentary by Omer from MMOs.com Dark Age of Camelot is a subscription based fantasy MMORPG developed and published by EA / Mythic. 'The Endless Conquest will be a new account type that allows players to enjoy Dark Age of Camelot through level 50 (and beyond) for free, without a paid subscription, forever,' Thornhill explained. Dark Age of Camelot, the early 2000s MMO, is getting a free to play option in 2018. Our list of the ten best PC MMOs is the place to be. Announced in a blog post (and caught by MMOGames ), the new mode will be called Endless Conquest, and will allow new players to jump in on the game, with some limitations.
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Who says you can’t teach an old MMORPG new tricks? After nearly two decades of operation, Broadsword Games will be introducing a free-to-play option for Dark Age of Camelot, the granddaddy of realm-vs.-realm combat, in late 2018.
The news is tucked away in the most recent DAoC producer’s letter, where Producer John Thornhill dubs it Dark Age of Camelot: Endless Conquest. With this new kind of account, you can play up to level 50 on a limited selection of classes, participate in RvR, and earn Master Levels, Champion Levels, and Realm Rank.
There are catches, of course, and these are spelled out in the FAQ. Endless Conquest accounts must be new (though Broadsword is looking into ways to allow previously subscribed accounts to take advantage) and can only have one character, while XP, bounty point, coin, and realm point gain are “significantly reduced and/or throttled.” Other limitations include standard “free account” restrictions, such as on chat, trading, and housing.
It’s a pretty bold move for a veteran game, but Broadsword Games has a while to figure it all out. Though the announcement’s being made in the waning days of 2017, Thornhill says the move won’t happen until fall 2018. After all, it takes a while to muster an army for war.
The fantasy MMO Dark Age of Camelot has been around since 2001, even through the demise of original developer Mythic Entertainment in 2014. Last week, producer John Thornill of Broadsword Online Games, which took over the game prior to Mythic's closure, announced big plans for 2018, which will include the rollout of a new free-to-play option called Endless Conquest.
'The Endless Conquest will be a new account type that allows players to enjoy Dark Age of Camelot through level 50 (and beyond) for free, without a paid subscription, forever,' Thornhill explained. 'Endless Conquest players will be able to level all the way to 50 on a limited selection of classes, participate fully in RvR [Realm vs Realm], and earn Master Levels, Champion Levels, and Realm Rank—to a point.'
That 'point,' detailed in the FAQ, would be restrictions on character slots, classes, home ownership, tradeskills, XP and coin gain rates, and other aspects of the full game, some details of which are still being nailed down. But the core elements of DAoC, including access to all expansions up to and including Labyrinth of the Minotaur (which, for the record, came out in 2006) are all there. Plus it's free, which is always a positive.
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Endless Conquest is currently limited to new accounts, although the developers are giving thought to enabling owners of lapsed accounts to transfer over.
The new mode also opens the door to an 'alternative ruleset server,' although that's still a long way down the road. 'As things stand now, there are two major obstacles preventing the launch of one in the near term (as in this next year),' Thornhill wrote. 'The first is that everyone seems to have a different view of what the perfect alternative server ruleset would include. We knew this going in, and feel confident we can deliver a ruleset that would be both highly engaging and appealing to a wide swath of former and new players alike.'
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'That being said—as we have previously stated, we would never create an alternative ruleset server unless we were confident in the Ywain server’s population and health. This is the second and much more challenging obstacle. The Endless Conquest is going to be a huge step in overcoming it.'
Dark Age of Camelot: Endless Conquest is currently expected to go live in the fall of 2018.