Review Submitted By: Protector
Author Status: Player
Started on Medievia: 1999
Submission Date: Apr 24, 2005
TMC Listing: Medievia
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Protector]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Ah, the world of medievia. It casts you into a chaotic world with
dragons, monsters, quests, and mysteries, just like every other mud.
This mud thrives on making it more and more difficult for any player
to succeed by adding more and more requirements to do so. They decided
it was too easy to hero (Maximum Level) your character, so they made
it harder.
If i could take back the years i've played Medievia, I would. If you
don't donate money to them (50-150dollars) you're a step behind
every other player, because they all have the equipment rewarded to
you when you donate. The whole mud is full of rules that, if not
followed to the dime, your character is immediately punished by
revoking hero status, freezing, lowering of stats, or even purging
(deletion of your character). They don't care how long you've
played, or how much you've donated to them. This happened to me
once, after which I decided I had had enough of the game.
If you're looking for a FUN mud, don't go to medievia, go
elsewhere, muds that are based on having fun, not on sucking
up your time, then making you frustrated and angry. Of
course, these are purely my opinions.
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Comment Submitted By: Natris
Author Status: Player
Started on Medievia: 1999
Submission Date: May 5, 2005
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Natris] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
Since i'm long retired from med so i really don't know why i'm
writing this; randomly got to this site and was interested how Med
will be rated here (well i'm not honest; i'm actually thinking about
unretiring from playing :). Nevertheless, i believe that i've got
enough experience after 4300+ hours spent there to know what am i
talking about.
Author of this review is probably very angry at Med, thereby he
comments things in black as he sees them in his mind.
First of all, population of this mud is stagnating; from 600+ 6 years
back to 500+ now (these are numbers of ppl simultaneously online at
one moment at prime time; not all existing characters :p and since
having more than 1 character online at one moment is not allowed...).
Nevertheless, it is still MUCH more than at any other MUD i know.
There is a set of rules which very precisely define what is allowed to
do and what not. Despite the fact that i've also been affected by the
consequences of breaking these rules (freeze of the character for some
time), i still believe that only existence and strict enforcement of
such rules can keep such a high population at bay and make the game
fair for everyone(of course this is the idealistic view; reality is
not so clean, there are problems, humans are humans, but it's not so
bad).
To the comment of 'making game harder for everyone', i got the
totally opposite impression: They are trying to make the game easier
for newbies, which annoys old players (because everyone hates changes;
i heard this same reasoning 6 years back too :p) I'd say that
starting a new character now is much easier than years back. This is
logical because the competition of graphical games is brutal and Med
had to become less hardcore at the levelling department to be able to
attract new players.
Donating system angered me for a long time while i was playing
because, as a student in czech republic (central europe) i have no
real cash to buy donation items. However, there is the possibility of
letting other people pay for them, instead of you by paying them
ingame money which i actually did after some time. Well, the system is
there, it is not bad, so whatever. Actually it's better to have a
slightly weaker character and be able to play than if you must pay for
the game at the beginning as with WoW, DAoC etc.
I must say that i enjoyed every hour of my time spent online. I left
the game because i learned all the aspects of the game that i wanted
to learn and there was no real challenge for me there. I expect i'll
probably return after some time because i've never ever found other
MMORPG that had such a good player killing system.
I believe that one of the reasons why Med is so good and funny is the
number of the people online (well this is recursive definition...). My
brother played another mud, but had to eventually stop playing because
it was boring. On med there are so many players there is always
something to do.
So if you, the reader, wish to try something new, surely try med.
Remember that there are two aspects of the game; levelling is maybe
not so much fun as in graphical games, but being hero (=max lvl
player) is definitely fun :) I'd surely like to see more new faces on
med if i decide to start playing again :)
Btw sorry for my sucky english; now that i read it once more i'm not
sure whether this is positive or negative advertisment for med; truth
is that my english was really awful when i started playing and i
learned it mostly on muds. Anyway, after quenching my graphoman's
urge (and believe me, doing that in foreign language is hard :) i'm
going back to work.
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Comment Submitted By: Jonathan Walker
Author Status: Player
Started on Medievia: 1900
Submission Date: May 25, 2005
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Jonathan Walker] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
All I would like to do is provide factual evidence to what this
player has reported. Please visit http://www.med.kavir.org for all the
information you need before playing this game.
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