Mortal Online announces a new expansion called Awakening

Oh this is too funny. A "expansion" seriously?!? They gunna charge for that? Ha! Have they even close to gotten the existing game working in any reasonable fashion? Too much!

No the expansion is FREE. Plus it looks to be adding some pretty great sandbox features and improvements. I plan on checking the game out. Hope the expansion will be out soon.

Cool - I just bought a month today to see for myself how the game was going. Last time I played, everything was still out of phase and there were hackers everywhere. I haven't logged in yet though so I can't speak to Saker's comment. I guess my reasoning for tossing them another $15 is that they seem to be one of the more stable companies trying to put together a sandbox. I'd like to see it succeed.

I personally will probably resub due to the mob AI. the AI added to the already in-game hitboxes will probably be nice as long as everything works as it should.

yeah... no

So, last I heard this game was universally panned. Anything change since then?

I can honestly say that I am completely shocked this game is still up and running.


Last I heard about Mortal Online was that there were a certain few GM's who were playing favorites with a guild. They would turn their walls invincible and keep them from getting taken over by other guilds.

This game had so much promise. Just a piss poor execution by an indie company that didn't know what they were doing.

this wont make it through the next year before it gets moved into beau's closet of F2P failures.

Such a dissapoint

It's funny how dying games try to use any chance they get to call core feature patch for an expansion. You would expect the AI and capital being there from the launch, same goes for UI, but SV jumps the chance of them fixing their incomplete and broken core to call it for an expansion.

You can see that the game is dying and that they have no clue about game design. The CEO stressed several times that there would absolutely be no Auction houses, because he wants hardcore player immersion, as you can see in chat log below from a Q&A:

Henrik: what about the local business , there will be local auction houses or something like it ? (I hate the /say trading)
there will be no local auto acution
its all manual trade, we want player interaction

But now, suddenly, auction house is on the expansions feature list. What does it tell us about the game? Two things. First of all, that their designers seems to learn by trial and error. Not by analyzing the games market and try to foresee what will work but by going by hunch and then patch it if it desn't work out. they are delusional trial and error users.

Second thing is the reason for AH to be introduced. Games population is too low to allow for manual trading. There are no enough players at any time to let you find what you need, or to let you sell your stuff.

Mortal online is a horrible experiment which gets supported by lying and cheating their player base. Don't buy into their latest hype. They hyped up the TC patch, about which you can read on forums. As all their systems it was pointless and bugged.