Jumpgate Upgrades Revealed

One of the games that I used to play (heavily) was Jumpgate. It was similar to Origin’s 1990’s-era “Privateer” title, in which you fly a single-man spaceship around and attempt to achieve certain goals while interacting with people, collecting resources, and shooting stuff.

Like everything, I got bored with it pretty fast. It didn’t help that there were only about 150 people playing the game, that it pretty much required a joystick (mine broke), and that my grades took a drastic drop AND I was still working full time while I was playing it. I “flamed out” of the game in a huff when my defenseless asteroid hauler got destroyed one day with pretty much all I’d worked for in the game to date in the hold, and like all MMO games, I decided that I no longer wanted to pay money to be frustrated and pissed off.

Anyway. I’m still on the game news mailing list, and it looks like they’ve planned a significant upgrade to the game. If, when the upgrade comes out, I can afford a joystick and the game fees, I might try it out again. It was certainly a great time back then, and with better graphics and better gameplay it can’t help but be the best thing evar.