Asherons Call emulator lead explains what went down with the cease-and-desist.One of the main forces behind the emulator projects, a player named Pea, posted an account stating how he initially wrote to WB about the games closure and his growing involvement in the emulator scene.
He also assumed that WB did not care about the Asherons Call franchise and had abandoned it, which fed into the emulator projects taking root. If anyone ever takes on the challenge again I would love to see a graphically revamped version of the old game. Ive been playing games since Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was a popular game. Ashrons call is my all time favorite system for character advancement and play ability. It would seem that after they got as much money as that they thought they would get for this bait and switch they shut the servers down, and gave the Asherons call players the big middle finger. WB is only planning on using the IP as a tax write off so why would they care if someone makes an EMU for this game. It is just a sad day when companies start thinking that they no longer have to listen to the very people that pay their bills. It would seem that they must think that they know better on what the consumer wants than that of the consumer. ![]() They didnt migrate to AC2, after all, but kept playing the original for almost two decades. If WBTurbine launched the legacy servers again, though, theyd get most of that audience back. Sure, it is a small audience, and the company clearly doesnt care about such numbers even if they could keep enough cash flowing to pay the bills, but that is the situation. Until they rectify this unethical behavior by permitting private servers or emulators, or bringing the Asherons Call servers back online, Ill never pay for another Warner Brothers product, and Ill go out of my way to let other people know why they too should not support Warner Brothers. Absence may make the heart grow fonder in the short term, but in the long term it makes the heart forget and move on. Qualifying purchases through Amazon earn money for Massively OP as an Amazon associate.
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