Conquer Online

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Area: Global
Official Site: Conquer Online
Publisher: TQ Digital
Developer: TQ Digital
Platform: Microsoft Windows

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Overview

"Conquer" is a great 2.5D MMORPG featuring open-world PVP and fast levelling.

Features

Bounty system
Open world PvP
Five class promotions
Unique skill leveling system
Useful path finding feature

Area: Global
Official Site: Conquer Online
Publisher: TQ Digital
Developer: TQ Digital
Platform: Microsoft Windows

Review

Compared to most single-player video games, online games, especially MMOs, have a much longer life expectancy. The interaction and competition among the community can provide MMO players with sustainable pleasures. Thus, many MMOs remain popular for years, even under today’s competitive game market where new games are popping up daily.

However, players always go bored after repeating the same thing for some time, even for the most successful MMO. So it is conventional for developers to add new content regularly, so as to prevent their players from burning out. Conquer Online, the most successful Chinese style MMO, is a good example. Released in 2003, this free MMO has renowned success with 7 language versions and millions of players in the worldwide market. As six years have passed, many different features and sources have been added to update Conquer Online into the more modern version, Conquer Online 2.0. However, the side effects of those updates have become more and more clear. Many veterans have been complaining the game has become too different from their cherished “good old days”, and they started to appeal to TQ Digital to bring back the original version of Conquer Online.
This idea spread fast, and had taken root among more of the mainstream CO players. Aftersome railing from the community, TQ decided to release what they called “Classic CO”, which is a combination of the current 2.0 client and earlier gameplay.

New stuff does refresh the original content and keep the community vibrant in most cases, but more is not always better. After years of “updates”, old players may find their cherished MMO has become a completely different game, and then people leave…

So maybe it’s time for developers to stop filling their games with excessive new content, and try to help get back the original flavor of what made people want to play the game. Classic CO has made a great example for other aged MMOs. Nostalgic veterans, welcome home.