I am an old time player of black and white some may know me as redeagler others as sinhunter and i am a vetran who loves and owns bnw 1 & 2 i fought along people like lord wolftin or wintigers he was not common on these boards like i was but if you were a vetran and part of our "community" then you will know who i am talking about. this message is to all vetrans of bnw1 and everyone who cares about it.

    this is the first time i visited this site in over a year that is because i have given up on lionhead, their consistent procrastination with a multiplayer expansion on bnw2 has driven me bonkers. I even defended lionhead by convincing others of the release and so I waited patiently only to be disapointed. black and white 1 was a masterpiece and a classic. I have given up on bnw2 but i ask lionhead very nicely if they could revive the multiplayer for bnw1.

   do not think for a momment the multiplayer was not used. prior to its closing i had played bnw1 multiplayer with friends in a small community of people everyday for 2 years sometimes 3 games a day. we all became extremely proficient in the game and i was even named grand champion of bnw but that information is irrelivant. i cannot understand why lionhead would abandon such a beautiful piece of work and the same applys to bnw2. sales in bnw2 obviously failed because a lack of skirmish and multiplayer. we vetrans who played bnw1 anxiously awaited the arrival of bnw2. but even with the arrival of bnw2 all us vetrans were terribly disapointed that bnw1 servers were closed. i am aware of the program that allows for lan play but it is very difficult to run. as we all know before the servers closed there was a very large amount of people flooding the servers to play "one last game" although this has nothing to do with the topic us vetrans were disgusted by this.

if anyone here agrees with me that bnw1 should be revived i urge you post here now and make your comments. if lionhead is speaking the truth about listening to her gamers then maybe we have a chance to make a difference.

 

Sorry to dampen your hopes so soon, but the chances of the BW1 servers coming back online is extremely unlikely. But I suppose nothing's impossible... but if rallying mountains of support from a practically dead board is your strategy to get Lionhead to listen, then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Because even if forum members would be able to convince them to do something as extreme as that, there aren't any forum members left to do that. Well, not many.

 

You might as well just use Phoenix.

you are most likely correct but i would bet money if multiplayer was resurected i could rally over 90% of my old community we were stuck together in quite a tight circle and we would take up the game again any day. dont lose hope though tell people about this and if we get enough people posting on here then lionhead will have to listen.

How big was your community? Only if it's in the tens of thousands is there any hope at all...

There's no reason for Lionhead to bring the servers back online. It's a possibility they will, but so is everything, nothing's impossible. I'm sorry, you have an admirable motive but you're wasting your time. BW2 is dead, let alone BW1.

As long as I live, BnW1 will never die. I'd love to have the servers back up as much as you do, but fact is, LH are busier with other projects.

I never lose hope that they'll make a BnW3 and focus on what made BnW1 great.

(Also, the old community was fairly big)

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*Puts hand up*

I was actaully one of those "one-last-time" gamers before they shut down multiplayer.  Truth be told, it was my first time also as I wasn't much of a multiplayer buff I have to say.

I remember you redeagler and I recall seing wintigers around also.  I generally hang out at kayssplace with Kays and VRGarlic (now going by the name of Tourniquet) where we cater to a small but steady flow of interest in both B&W1 and B&W2, be it multiplayer or single player.

As for your request, I got to follow the sentiments already expressed here.  While a noble cause, I don't see much hope of it happening.  Pop into kayssplace and have a peep.  All B&W olbies are much welcome.

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thanks for your guys oppinions and i would like to say i agree with all of you, it is very unlikely for lionhead to even look at this thread nevermind listen to it. as for my community i started playing bnw when it was dying out athough there was probably only 30-40 people some of them not very active i did learn from the best and increase in skill suprisingly fast. i due vaguely remember you fenton its your avatar that really rings a bell though.

and since you knew him where the hell is wintigers i havent seen him in ages. i used to talk to him all the time but every couple months he would get a new msn name and stuff. last i heard of him he was on hunting season or something perhaps he just couldnt afford internet? any idea?

oh and for bnw3 pm had the intentions of releasing 5 bnw's but after his contract and stuff with microsoft and the immeadiate attention with fable i honestly beleive bnw is dead and there will not be a bnw3.

if there was i think 1600th century would be best. it would be like risk and you would got guys with muskets and early rifles.

Ah, the blessings of keeping your old avatar - olbies always recognise you

Sorry I can't be any help redeagler, but when I said I saw wintigers around, I only meant I remembered seeing him on the forums.

As for your ideas on B&W3, it's probably just me, but I begin to loose interest in a game series where old projectile weapons in the previous game are replaced with more modern gunpowder weapons (one of the things that make me worry about how I'll take to playing Fable 2).

It's just something about seeing arrows and catapult stones flying through the air when compared to musket shots and cannon balls (even though I admit the latter is kinda cool).

Then again, another slant to take would be o have the option to take you civilisation in different directions to others, e.g. one civ go go down the route of technology and develop guns while another civ could progress via more mystical means, i.e. magic as granted by their god.

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A civilisation consisting of only sorcerers and mages, eh?

Int- Er- Est- Ing!

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Hello to all. I used to be in these forums a long time ago. Maybe not an avid poster but I did use to check it every day. The years though and other responsibilities have made my visits more rare.

I just checked it now and many changes have taken place and I even had to reactivate my account, once again. I remember you Fenton_Pat and your lots of posts in all reincarnations of the board.

I would also like to find out what's happening with the BW series and if anything is planned, although any announcements would probably happen after Fable 2 is released.

It would be nice if the multiplayer servers came online again but highly unlikely after the not-so-successful release of Black&White 2.

I greet all old and new posters

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The truth will set you free

Glad to see some of you pre-04 people return and check in. Hi and welcome back Twin.

Currently, there are no plans for the BnW series, not even sure if there is a thing called BWStudios anymore

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Thanks . Well let's hope the future brings some news for Black and White. And for B.C as well. It was a pity to see that completely disappear as well. So much potential.

By the way I am not an old dinosaur stuck in the past! I just want to see ideas being implemented!!

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The truth will set you free

TWIN33:

I just want to see ideas being implemented!!

Welcome to the club mate.

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I just registered on this forum, have played bnw alot tho.

It would be nice to see a comeback, but that's indeed higlhy unlikelly to happen

Anyway, does anyone still play this online? If so, how?

edit: nvm, found the multiplayer forum

oh, and sory for my kinda broken english

well i know me and wintigers tried to get phoenix working for a while i remember we put an entire week into trying to get the think to work and we just had too many problems and glitchs and stuff so we had to give up on it. by the way fenton that was a totally wicked idea you had there about how each civ could research in different areas like technology or magic and stuff.

Yeah, I had no lucky with phoenix here too, will try Hamachi tomorrow, hope it works for me.

Ta for that.

Whos knows what will actually get implemented if/when they make B&W3.

Guess well have to wait and see. 

Sorry to hear that you couldnt get Pheonix working.  Did you try Hamachi?  Do a search on kayssplace for therads on installing it.

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I just hate to think how bad B&W3 could be and how a revamped B&W1 creature in a scenario could be. 

i have never heard of this Hamachi program that is something i should definately try but until i can find wintigers there is no point.

Himachi or pheonix both are but , it is the quality and quantity  of players that is lacking.

Heck yeah!

Getting Phoenix to work is a pain in the back side, great program, but without the main servers, god it's annoying to make it work!

I'm on Kayssplace as well, under the same name.

I'd like to see them bring support back. Heck even Blizzard Entertainment is still supporting Diablo 2, so there's no reason why this cannot be done.

BnW2 was okay, but the expac was better.

I'd like to see multiplayer revived for BnW1 again, just got my g/f into it, and we want to play together!
Any other players who are interested in setting up games or can help us get Phoenix working right so we can play, email me at paladinwannab1@hotmail.com (i'm on msn under that name too!)

I'm not really into it competitively, i'm a lazy player. I like to just slack and goof off and socialize in game, but still...
Don't ruin a thing Lionhead! It would restore people's faith in the BnW series!

Dam rite man!!! b w 1 was excellent when it came out and it would be again if it was revived they should re release it but with all the features of all the b w games !!! now theres a game u can play for the rest of ur life!!

Not for ever but a long time.

Heck yes bring it back and keep it back! theres no other game that could benefit from multiplayer as much as Bnw's series. I feel like thier discontinueation of black and white was corporate suicide.