Review Submitted By: Uleha
Author Status: Player
Started on Forgotten Kingdoms: 2009
Submission Date: May 31, 2012
TMC Listing: Forgotten Kingdoms
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Uleha]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Writing this review as a long-time player and contributor of
Forgotten Kingdoms, it is with a heavy heart that I must complete in
all gravity this entirely negative review of the game. After joining
the game in 2009 at the advice of an old friend who shortly quit after
I began due the same reasons that I have quit multiple times, I had
fun- This was, of course, because the game was largely unpopulated by
staff and people just worked together for the betterment of the game.
No longer.
Now all that Forgotten Kingdoms is, is a playground for the immortals
to try out their every outlet for corruption. The game is fairly
carebear between players because we actually care about each other and
want each other to have fun, but the immortals seize every opportunity
to ruin the fun for the players. They will spawn an insurmountable
number of mobs atop people for no reason at all, or delete a player's
items, or even put them into jail-type rooms simply for being logged
off for what the immortals deem as too long. With a completely
unoriginal theme, poorly written quests and story events, unrealistic
characters everywhere you look, poor storytelling, and a
fast-dwindling playerbase, Forgotten Kingdoms is now unfortunately a
piece of garbage swirling around a drain on a very strong current. The
wrong people were hired and so they have torn the game apart. The
players most liked by these imms are rained nice things and
opportunities upon, and those of us who aren't in a constant state of
ooc worship simply suffer. I pity this MUD and its players. Farewell.
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Comment Submitted By: Harroghty
Author Status: Player and staff member
Started on Forgotten Kingdoms: 2004
Submission Date: Jun 3, 2012
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Harroghty] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
Uleha: I do not really feel the need to contest your opinion, but I
do feel that you are leaving out two key elements.
First, full disclosure would help your reader understand your
perspective; you are one of two players banned from the game in the
last two years because you broke the published game rules repeatedly.
Furthermore, the game is so terrible that you have attempted to elude
the ban on a couple of occasions by making a new account.
Secondly, a staff member perspective will point out that the game's
player base has actually grown lately. Yes, you'll have to take my
word for the roster of players, but the fact that this game has gone
from placing in the thirties (or worse) to placing consistently in the
top ten here on TMC should be a good indicator of which direction the
game is going.
Lastly though, I invite any prospective player reading to come and
find out for yourself how you feel about our unoriginal theme, etc. I
believe that you will find, as many others have, that the Realms are
alive and a lot of fun. Thanks.
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Comment Submitted By: Solaghar
Author Status: Player
Started on Forgotten Kingdoms: 2003
Submission Date: Jun 18, 2012
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Solaghar] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
The review by Uleha is completely ridiculous, I know of no way to
comment on it as a reasonable review. As a player of FK for nearly a
decade, staff come and go as do players, but I've never heard of any of
the actions taken as Uleha has commented. As someone who has actually
contributed a great deal to the game as a builder of areas and a member
of the coding team, I'm unaware of any of Uleha's contributions to the
betterment of the game. I also find it laughable that someone would
complain that the game lacks 'originality' when we're attempting to be
as faithful as possible to the setting and theme of the Forgotten
Realms setting.
I'm also the kind of person who finds this kind of MUD-based drama
pretty tedious. If you don't like a place, don't play there, but I'm
sure every MUD has had problem players who feel like the world should
revolve around them and their every suggestion or comment should be
treated as law. But the accusations here are completely off-base.
Immortals spawning innumerable mobs on players for no reason?
Deleting players items for no reason? Jailing players for not logging
into the game? I can see exactly the hidden reasoning behind what I
imagine Uleha thinks of as valid complaints. Killing mobs in what
should be an RP area where any realistic person would imagine there
would be guards? Deleting items that you shouldn't have gotten or got
illegitimately. Putting someone in jail for stealing an item or
killing someone then logging off the game to avoid the consequences.
There's reasoning for everything, and this is just my guess for the
non-specific instances of immortal malfeasance and corruption taking
place on Forgotten Kingdoms, which isn't run by a dedicated team of
immortals but rather a cabal of sado-masochists who built this game
solely to torture players if we buy Uleha's story...
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