He'll usually have hatcheries (buildings that build almost every zerg unit in the game) bind to 0-9 keys and then he'll manage and micro huge swarms of zerg units. When you understand this watching somebody like Jaedong play zerg you'll understand how insane it is. That still leaves you with easily around 100 population or more of units that you have to micromanage. Population cap in game is 200 and depending on game quite a lot of that cap will go to workers which you don't have to manage. 36 units bind to keys 1-3 and 7 buildings bind to keys 4-0. In SC:BW you can only select and hotkey one building and unit groups are limited to 12 units. In SC2 you have multi building selection and you can select and group as many unit as you want under one hotkey. I imagine many folks had a similar experience with their first MMORPG, whenever I see people talk about Runescape or WoW, I always think of The Realm and my time with it. Over the years I made many friends, some of whom I still regularly play games with. It'd be nice to see a private server, at least. Apparently it's coded in a dead language invented by Sierra, so I'm not holding my breath. The turn based combat would be perfect for a touchscreen.
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I still think The Realm Online would do fine in the F2P space, stuffed full of microtransactions. It was clear that the "developers" who purchased the rights to the game had no interest in developing the game any further. So I stuck around and watched it slowly wither away, at least until 2007-8 or so. I made friends and liked talking to them. It had 25 players online last time I got nostalgic and installed it to hear the startup tune.Īnyway, I had a great time with The Realm Online. relative!)Īfter the launch of WoW in '04 the regulars became less regular and eventually the population was under 200, then 100, etc. This was before the launch of DAoC, so maybe early 03? The game still had a relatively active population (500-750 players near peak hours, something I would scoff at today and declare dead. When I was 15 I started with an annual subscription for 49.99, playing on my mother's computer at first after assuring her it wasn't a virus. It would be a few years until that happened. Here was a chat room, and a game, all rolled into one.
The novelty was phenomenal to me at the tender age of 12. I've shelled out enough for Hearthstone packs by now that I don't feel guilty about trading that now worthless huge chunk of The Realm Online gold for that valuable Starcraft CD key.Ī good friend of mine played the game, I'd often be over at his house playing it with him or simply watching him play. Later in life, I ended up putting over 800 hours into CS:GO and now own over 300 games on Steam, so I lived my multiplayer dreams eventually.
It'll always have a place in my heart because of that. Starcraft was a rare multiplayer exception for me, along with Jedi Academy, and UT. Once WoW launched it basically killed The Realm anyway, I could have spent that money more wisely in retrospect. I did manage to keep up my subscription to The Realm for a long time, but that was thanks to the wonderful concept of money in birthday cards. Steam was around as well as services like Direct2Drive but my Mom didn't have a bank account, so I just accepted that I'd be missing out on these multiplayer experiences as a teenager. I never did get to play the expansion, although I'm well aware it's considered the definitive experience.Ĭounter-Strike is similarly something else I had to miss out on, I just didn't have a way to purchase games digitally. I was itching to play online with a friend of mine.Įventually I got that key and enjoyed many, many hours of online play with a good friend.
It had a player-run economy, so I offered millions of the in-game currency for someone's Starcraft CD key, as all I had was a burnt CD. I used to play an MMO called The Realm Online from ~2003-2007.
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