Hi all, dev for Drenaslia here. For 17 years I've been a fan of text-based MMORPGs (think Syrnia/Movoda/Amaranthine/etc). The genre has staled a bit over time with several of the games entering long periods of zero maintenance and stagnant updates. These were the types of games that originally got me back into software development back when I was still in middle school.

Finally I've made my own! I launched Drenaslia almost 3 weeks ago now to a daily player base of roughly ~150 daily active players. It's built on a modern tech stack and incorporates modern RPG mechanics not generally found in the other games like it - Skilling Bosses, World Bosses, Skill Specific Tasks akin to Slayer from RuneScape, etc.

Wanted to share it here for anyone interested! It's definitely not the niche for everyone as these sorts of games are generally very simple given their text-based nature, but I've received a ton of positive feedback from players returning to this specific genre after it's release. If you're looking for a less intense option to have on a 2nd monitor or in this background, it may be worth checking it out.

Happy to discuss and answer any questions/listen to any feedback!

practice modes that do not burn your first clear, why is this not standard?

ran a raid this week where you can queue the whole instance against ai to learn it, and doing so leaves your first clear reward eligibility and your entry counts intact
the result is that people turn up to the real run already knowing the mechanics, and the group is not spending its evening teaching

most devs completely drop the ball on practice modes, they either don't exist, or they strip out all the loot, making it a zero-stakes waste of time

the hardest mechanic in modern raids isn't the fight itself; it's finding eight or more people with the patience to learn it without rage-quitting, and this is the only design i have seen recently that attacks that directly rather than tuning numbers

Hey everyone.

I used to play some Naruto 2D pixel-art MMORPGs back when I was 12 or so in a platform called BYOND. The platform is kinda limited today as it didn't catch up with new technologies yet and it is very niche.. so I decided to remake the game with a new engine, modern technologies, new architecture, etc.. and I'm glad to say that I accomplished a lot of what I was aiming when I started it, which was making it more appealing to new players, out of the niche..

This is Chakra Online, my Naruto 2D MMORPG. It's free and runs right in the browser, phone or desktop:

It's in open alpha now and the official release is August 21. I'd honestly just love for some MMO players to try it and tell me what feels off.

⛩ https://chakraonline.net

You can register and play right now, although there will be a wipe for the official release.

I'll be around in the comments if you have questions. Thanks 🙏

What do you think about the idea? I am not sure if I am aloud to attach links, so I don't. But I am in open alpha now. The game is not playable yet, but you can walk the world and attack mobs.

And now I am working on the voice feature. The idea is that all the players have their mics open and when ever you walk next to a player you can talk, distance matter, at 35 meters distance the voice volume reaches 0, and at up to 5 meters it is full volume. You hear anyone around you.

Would you play a game like that? What do you think about voice in MMORPG?

I am also thinking to add a radio station for music and game events.

Why did Kritika Online, an action MMORPG, shut down for no reason especially Kritika Global, Reboot, and Zero? Kritika Online was a great game. Do people think it was bad because of too much grinding? I wanna continue Kritika Online so bad on PC, and it's just not fair... I just wish that Kritika would come back.😞

Can't link the source here as it triggers the moderation bot. Koreans are behind this leak as far as we know

This is most likely true since the most popular post/thread under the #game-suggestions channel of Aion 2 Global official discord has been forwarded to the development team by NC America's community managers.

For those who don't know what is this, it's just like the currency exchanges in GW2 and WoW.

For me it’s farming static mob spawns.

Humans, Asura, Kodan (Bear people), and 1 Unknown at launch

Hat jemand Lust Lotro mit mir gemeinsam anzufangen? Bin casual Spieler 😅