Shadowbane

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Shadowbane was on online MMORPG that was built and designed for one purpose: PvP. With a handful of races and a long list professions to choose from, the possibilities were literally endless. Shadowbane was one of the first to incorporate city sieging into an MMORPG and the idea was tremendous; the execution however, was flawed. When Shadowbane launched as a pay-to-play game on March 25, 2003, the server crashed. There were major server problems that ran off some of their playerbase early. This on top of other random issues such as the annoying "sb.exe error" plagued Shadowbane in its early life and eventually led to Shadowbane being a free game in 2005. By this time, with most serious problems out of the way, the playerbase was hurting. The positives about this game far outweighed the negatives in the end, however. A fast XP leveling system made players eager to quickly get out in the field and in the PvP aspect of the game. Sieges known as "banes" and fights for resource mines kept action in the game at all times. That along with solo/small scale pvp in mob zones guaranteed that there was always something to do. Politics also played an important part of the game as the famous or not so famous guilds would always be at eachother's throats in game and on the thriving community forum. Lots of violence and fighting to go around! Shadowbane, as of July 1st, was taken down.It's rise and fall marked the change in the way most MMORPG's are made now and how they will be made in the future.