Ever have that “oh wow.. I didn’t know I had this!” moment when cleaning out your closet? The same can be said of clearing out a hard drive’s contents. For I found old Fraps videos I made back in 2010-2013.
I saw all of my failed attempts to show off my transit system (the W2TS).
This silly court thing we had in WoW (back in Cata) of Heol VS Bigboss over control of the Goldshire Inn(I had to play as Judge..and Telerar claiming the Inn for himself). Heh. Good times.
My recording of the MRT’s first Spleef Tournament (something I’d like to see happen for the server’s 5th anniversary).
…But there were also these videos of a game I’ve forgotten about, that I played around 2013: Myst Online: URU Live. I even did a mini-review of it, and that I said I would come back if things changed.
I watched this thing I recorded of angry and myself (when we were still ‘good’ friends) of this large circular room, with waterfalls all around it. Inside had this strange contraption with four globes attached to it. Angry went off to make it rotate while I kept recording, and I saw it rotate. Watching it from then and to now, yes.. that was pretty cool.
Not only does this make me want to use Fraps again (since the framerate was pretty good), it also made me have the itch to go back into the game and relive those moments (and see if the game was still alive). However… well, I dunno.
See, their forum is still fairly active. Someone asked (but in Reddit) around early 2016 if the game is dead. They said that ‘it’s sleeping’ and ‘people still play it’ which gave me hope.
Yet when trying to ask for myself on the forum, I’m still waiting for the account activation email that typically would had come within 10 minutes at the most.
Yet I also had another issue on my hands, which was I couldn’t send a test email to the email that I posted when I went to register the forum account (to see who’s end was having the issue). After spending nearly an hour with Arvixe, I finally got this issue fixed.
Though I had to wait ’till after I had the new drive installed to replace the dying one until I could do the above, which is all good. It wasn’t DOA, so I don’t have to get a replacement or anything like that. So yay, my life is back to normal in that regard.
So anyway, got the test email sent and it went through with no problems, proving it wasn’t a problem on my end. Still doesn’t give me much confidence in the game. Yet, thankfully I still have the installer on my drive, and was able to update it. So.. the game isn’t dead. However, I forgot my login info, and what I use to remember all my passwords, I didn’t have the info.
Tried to make an account, and their account creation thing isn’t there. Ok, so.. the game isn’t dead, but I cannot get in. I had to send an email to them in hopes they can help me. So far, said email hasn’t bounced back.
Yet if this email doesn’t get responded in a month, well.. I dunno. It’s a shame, but it’s something I’ll have to deal with. This game has no monthly fee (or even a shop with overpriced microtransactions). It’s based on people donating to keep the game alive.
So, the game isn’t dead… they just can’t afford to allow new people to join. And from what I read, this happened months ago. So, I don’t mind donating to just be able to play again. Since seeing that old clip I recorded, I feel it’s worth the donation.