Saga of Ryzom, Free and Open Source Software?

chew827 writes "Nevrax has been suffering bankruptcy and is in the process of liquidation and are trying to sell the Saga of Ryzom, the #3 rated MMORPG on mmorpg.com, to any prospective buyers. A group has assembled to try and raise enough funds to buy the intellectual property and open it under the GPL license — something Ton Roosendaal did for Blender."

Re:Best of luck!

[jandrese]

I wonder who's bright idea it was to make the donation meter Penis Shaped [mirrordot.org]. I can see where they were maybe trying for the thermometer look, but the proportions are all wrong.

User created content?

[cyberfunkr]

The life blood of any MMORPG is adding new content. Look at the original EverQuest; seems like they pump out an expansion every 6 months so there is some new quest to solve or item to gain.

Now you want to trust the content to programming geeks? Have you SEEN the state of the average fan fic?

Talk about Dork Ex Machina.

Every quest will involve having to visit the 99th level Wizard/Paladin/Thief in their trans-dimensional fortress who is surrounded with topless wenches while he watches a death match between Picard and Kirk. Oh, and Sam and Frodo are "doing it" in the next room.