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The Lounge / Re: Anyone else miss the way things used to be?
« on: Saturday, April 01, 2017, 22:17:41 PM »
The thread has been dead for a little while, but I just had to post up when I found it.
I started AA at 1.9 in 2003. It was the first online, PVP game I had played to that point, and being an Army vet I loved it. Realistic speed, no respawns, no powerups; the game was so different from any other FPS game. After playing a few month's by myself, I joined my first and only clan in the game; Broadband Rangers [BBR]. It was a great group of people that became real friends. At our height we were running three servers and had 70+ members. The servers were full nearly 24/7 and I got to know people from alot of other clans. It was a real community back then.
By the time 2.3 came out I was with the closed Beta team doing game testing and a member of the Alpha group working with the Devs. It was great having such a inside position and having some input on the game design.
Around when 2.7 came out cracks were starting to show. The Army started pushing more and more resources over for development of 3.0, but very few of the Alpha or Beta teams were allowed to help on it. The Devs were really getting stressed trying to support v2 and write an all new game for v3. 2.8 and the patches were not up to the usual standards. v3 was pushed out by the Army, even though it wasn't nearly ready. The day it was released, everybody on the Alpha and Beta teams were notified by email that we were no longer needed. We also found out that the entire development team had been fired.
Was a really sad ending to a wonderful game and community.
I started AA at 1.9 in 2003. It was the first online, PVP game I had played to that point, and being an Army vet I loved it. Realistic speed, no respawns, no powerups; the game was so different from any other FPS game. After playing a few month's by myself, I joined my first and only clan in the game; Broadband Rangers [BBR]. It was a great group of people that became real friends. At our height we were running three servers and had 70+ members. The servers were full nearly 24/7 and I got to know people from alot of other clans. It was a real community back then.
By the time 2.3 came out I was with the closed Beta team doing game testing and a member of the Alpha group working with the Devs. It was great having such a inside position and having some input on the game design.
Around when 2.7 came out cracks were starting to show. The Army started pushing more and more resources over for development of 3.0, but very few of the Alpha or Beta teams were allowed to help on it. The Devs were really getting stressed trying to support v2 and write an all new game for v3. 2.8 and the patches were not up to the usual standards. v3 was pushed out by the Army, even though it wasn't nearly ready. The day it was released, everybody on the Alpha and Beta teams were notified by email that we were no longer needed. We also found out that the entire development team had been fired.
Was a really sad ending to a wonderful game and community.
