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To be honest, it's just a matter of time with that amount of ISK.

ASOIAF is about the house dynasties, chivalry and the characters that bind it together. For a cycling and rugby game developer I've a hard time seeing they make a MMO out of it for the first game. My guess it will be some kind of turn-based strategy game with focus on building a family dynasty. However a MMO would be interesting...

Actually it was the players that enforced this kind of playstyle, not the game developers. In the end, most people play the game for 8v8 encounters or the solo playstyle.

Those that didn't like RvR stuck with PvE which in my eyes was atleast as fun.

Question to the author: The picture on page 1 features some of the Celtic Fist members on the EU/Excalibur server, Hibernia realm. Were you one of them? I knew alot of CF guys from back then.

Indeed it did. Just look at DAoC now.

Still about DAoC:

Calling it "gank groups" is just abit wrong I think. In the start, these people ran around ganking everything, sure. But eventually they would meet some other "gank group".

Now the definition of "gank" is to take some player or a group of players with ease. The competition eventually hardened and the rest of the player base matured as RvR players, getting better gear and abilities and not dieing like sheep. Things got abit more organized, you even had PUGs that were formed from good players and worked very well. So the ganking aspect was gone, except in the mind of the players of course.

What you ended up with was a bunch of these 8-man groups, competing for kills against other 8-man groups. There was a sort of chivalric "honor" system, moderated by some outvoiced players, that dictated how other people should play. Before I stopped playing, after almost five years of DAoC, I was a part of this. But looking back at it, I find it quite silly.