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Bitcraft game console1/8/2024 Involvement: I have been trying to answer any shout questions players wan't to give. I also have owned my own server but closed it because i didn't want to pay the money anymore so I'm trying to find a new friendly server. This is a nice little server with around 20-40 players online. This is a very nice little server where I got the job of being a Mini-games Mod and had the rolls of sorting out the plugins and kicking and banning the players. So I decided to move to a new server called a1craft. I got demoted because I was not on active. It was a nice little server but i didn't like the attitude there when they were swearing and all there. I moved to a small server called Duel-play. I thought I would move to a bigger public server to do some staff training/work on there. We ran and got around 10-20 players on at one time. I was head Admin on there and had a big responsibility like Checking the console for recent kicks and bans and seeing if they are worthy of joining back on the server. I started out on a small server me and my friends brought up which no longer exists. I hope you guys enjoy reading and give some feedback in the comments.Įxperience: I have had a very good experience of being a Helper/mod. I used to be a player who would answer any question in the shout and I normally still am. I am normally a nice guy to talk to and a nice person who helps players. I am 17 years old and have taken on many rolls of staff on smaller servers. I am here with another Mod/Admin application. It wasn’t all a waste, however, as SEGA would take many lessons that it learned during Dragon’s Dream’s development and operation for its next project, Phantasy Star Online.Skype Username: Await12345 (I am always online on Skype) Ultimately, the barriers to entry and the newness of online console gaming kept most players away from Dragon’s Dream, leading to the closure of the game in ’99. The dev team did have plans for multiple parties to be able to go into the same dungeons, but that feature never came to be. Past that, there were five classes from which to occupy. Also, you could be a newt (cue Monty Python joke). No matter where a player chose to call home, he or she could pick from one of eight races, including a slime-based one. Yet players could select one of two worlds on that server: One populated by humans and one by demons. The game had one server that handled cross-platform play (another first!) between the Saturn and PC. In many ways, it functioned as Shadow of Yserbius did on the PC a few years earlier.ĭragon’s Dream further distinguished itself with its setup. Those who did so discovered a lobby-like overworld with various functional buildings and uniquely generated dungeons for parties below. Yet the novelty of online gaming and persistent progression was enough to convince some players to overcome these hurdles. Think about how much time you’ve sunk into your MMOs this past month, and then consider how much money you’d be out if you were charged a dime per minute. Press called Dragon’s Dream a “billing nightmare.”Įven when the company reduced the per-minute cost of playing, it still racked up some impressive bills for hardcore gamers. Yes, this was back when online games charged by the hour or minute, and that could get stupid expensive pretty fast. Players had to buy and install both a special modem and keyboard for the console, not to mention pay for a monthly account and minute-by-minute access. Totally free? Well, of course there was a catch. The title had a short run, expanding to a Windows client in 1998 before shutting down entirely on October 1st, 1999.Īpart from being an online RPG where up to four players could band together to go dungeon delving, Dragon’s Dream set itself apart by offering the game client for absolutely free for those who sent a request for it (the game wasn’t available in stores). Now if you had a SEGA Saturn back in the day and are scratching your head why you never heard of this game, that’s because this was a Japan-only title - and it was kind of difficult to access anyway.ĭeveloped jointly by SEGA and Fujitsu, Dragon’s Dream emerged onto the scene with a beta in summer of 1997 before launching that December. To uncover this story, we jump back a few years and a console generation to the SEGA Saturn, where Dragon’s Dream allowed remote adventurers to play together on consoles for the first time. Yet Phantasy Star Online wasn’t SEGA’s first attempt at bringing an MMO-like title to market. SEGA’s 2000 entry on the Dreamcast became an instant hit, spawning other ports, new versions, and a couple of sequels. When most people are asked to think back upon the first console to attempt an online RPG experience, the name that most likely pops up is Phantasy Star Online.
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