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Last Chance to Help Free Ryzom

Posted by Hemos on from the i-call-on-the-community dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the consistent influx of MMORPG's in the last few years it was obvious that many would fall by the wayside, one of those to fall is Ryzom, as you might be aware it is now going to be up for sale, and in an enterprising move for open source there is an initiative to buy Ryzom and put it under the GPL, much like Blender was in the past. However, time is short, apparently "Pledges must be made within the next few days, since the deadline for the final bid is expected sometime before Wednesday, December 19th". Already there is over 150,000 Euros donated and the FSF has donated 60,000!! If you (like me) can see the benefit of having a fully developed MMORPG that is completely open source just donate a little, quickly!"

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  1. Re:Suckitude? by exspecto · · Score: 2, Funny

    The monster I create that kills players in one hit.

  2. Re:Suckitude? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Funny

    The monster I create is nicer than yours, it only kills people with around 1 trillion gold pieces.

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  3. Don't Donate! by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 1, Funny

    If it's GPL it'll get ported to Linux and then my marriage will be over! Please! For the love of Mike! I only just escaped from WoW!

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  4. Re:whos going to host it? by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, if he needs to remind you, then it seems you've got the memory skills problem.

  5. Re:Suckitude? by nuzak · · Score: 2, Funny

    > what's to stop everyone from making a monster at the start that dies in one hit and drops a trillion gold?

    My monster would drop as soon as you see it, and drop 2^1000 gold (needs a bigint patch)

    But I decided it was easier to just make the game say that I win, and not play at all.

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  6. Re:Suckitude? by exspecto · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yesterday I was playing with my little brothers. One of them was fighting a tough monster and needed my help, so I agreed to join in for 2 of the 3 treasures from the kill. After it died and I got my treasure, he went up one level from the kill and then another from a "gain a level" card that he got from the treasure pile. That made him level 3. Then I smiled at him and tossed him a Duck of Doom, bringing him back down to level 1. Yeah, I'd do that to my own family.

  7. Re:Suckitude? by ArcticCelt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mine will spawn and instantly decapitate any player that start overusing "net slang" like ROFL LMAO or intent to use the word gay as pejorative slang.

    Exemple:
    Player 1 : Meh, got a gray item this is gay.
    Monster : *Pouff* *chop* *chop*.
    Player 2 : Ha ha! pwned ROFL LMAO!!111
    Monster : *Pouff* *chop* *chop*

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