sbemu

Is anyone following the development of sbemu or interested in playing again when it's done ?

Try as I might, the only game I've put more time into overall than shadowbane was wow, and thats only been because my friends kept talking me into going back to it.

I'll probably end up giving it a whirl at some point, and was wondering if anyone here was cheking it out.

I'm on the forums for it, as is Gharvi. It's like taking a time machine back to 2002-2003, watching people boardwarrior for a game that could either be awesome or an abject failure.

I might give it a shot at some point, for old time's sake, but I doubt a version of SB where the client can't ever change will hold much mystery for me beyond release.

-L-

Been a while since I've been around, but just to chime in - I'm in the market for an MMO, and with the easy (-ier) grind of SB it makes the game fantastic in conjunction with any "real" life...

That said, what sort of progress is sbemu making at the moment - is it as (near) vaporware as Shadowbane itself was?

The goal is to have it up basically the same as it was when it shut down.  They can't do anything with the client due to legal issues, just server stuff.  As for how far along it is, they're having a public preview from August 27 to Sept 3rd so who knows.  It looks like they are very serious about getting it up and running.  As an interesting sidenote, it looks like they are playing with mob AI so that they can give certain mobs the ability to work together a little bit more, and to cast things to disrupt afk macros.  Who knows if they will or how well it'll get working, but they're at least interested in keeping people there at their keyboards.  I'm stuck with some crappy hardware, so I'll probably give it a go once it gets up.  And I'll definitely be logging in for the preview.  They run an article in their announcements forum called "State of the Bane" which gives more info.  Just google sbemu and it'll take you there.