Players who choose the Alliance can be either human or elven, and Union players can be the Vail, which look like Dark Elves from the Elder Scrolls and the Nordein who look like Orcs(Also known as the Deatheaters).Įach faction has six playable classes, with three classes per race, all of which are archetypal RPG stuff. Each faction has two playable races to choose from. Upon beginning the character creation process, players choose between either the Alliance of Light or the Union of Fury. It’s a traditional fantasy RPG with humans and elves and a classic good versus evil story. Fairly active community on private serversįull review Premise and Presentation: Classic and Datedĭeveloped and published by Aeria Games, Shaiya was first released back in 2007.Very low player base on official servers, dead community.Good versus Evil, Faction-based PVP battles.Shaiya still has its’ high points, but the official game is long past its’ prime. The uniqueness of Ultimate Mode, is little more than a novelty feature now, and the P2W aspects of the PVP just kill the game, despite its’ potential. There’s nothing on offer here that the new generation of gamers won’t find somewhere else. Few veterans of the game are left, and the changes that the developers have made to the game over the years have only pushed old-school players away even more. The way it works with old-school MMOs is they either need to have a large enough player base to keep them going, or they need to modernize with the times to draw in newer players. Over 11 years since its’ release, does Shaiya hold up? In a way (Private servers), yes, but for the most part, Shaiya is as dead as an MMO can get. And as such, people looking back on it today might be viewing it through those dark-tinted nostalgia glasses which may obscure their objectivity when talking about it. This means it's very easy to add multiple game servers using the same database/login server.Shaiya holds a place in many people’s hearts as the first MMO they’ve ever played. This project is designed to be fully scalable, so all these servers can be run independently.

Retrieves definitions and player data from the database server, and handles all game related activities. This project was solely made for learning purposes and is not intended to be used in production.Ĭontains code shared by multiple servers.Īccepts connections from the login and game servers, and asynchronously processes database requests, and responds with the database.Ĭonnects to the database server, processes login requests, etc. The core servers are written in C#, with an extendable scripting system written in Python (not yet completed).

Shaiya Origin is an emulator for the Shaiya MMORPG. This repository is no longer under active development! Please follow current development here: Introduction

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