The Death of 2000's Neon Deviantart Furry MMOs

YES I KNOW THE MUSIC IS FROM CATZ originally all the music was from FH but I had to cut a decent portion out bc of copyright and I forgot to change the description. Smh y’all thinking I don’t know my Petz Catz 2 music... shame on you

furry history class

I always pretended I was a chicken on feral heart, and people got mad at me for interrupting their intense roleplays so they pretended to kill me.

I never thought my cringy childhood was going to be a small youtube documentary and here I am watching it, god this makes me itchy and teary eyed, I miss impressive title, feral heart and aro'kai...

Funfact: I met a special person in feral heart and now we live together and are engaged. Also I would totaly pay for a good/high quality animal MMO, so pleeeeaaase let there be something like this in the future ;-;

I have suddenly become interested into this extremely random topic which I will litterally never need to know about

Man, this is a trip. I used to play Feralheart every single day after school. I wasn't a scene kid, but I was a Warrior Cat kid, and that's ALL I roleplayed. I still draw my character Wildstar once in a while for nostalgic purposes, haha.

Shout out the the Link Drowned roleplayer who spent the entire day hanging out with me even with my poor english, the patchwork eevee-evolution creepypasta. I always waited for you at the spawn following that. Never seen you again but I hope you're doing well. Your writing is surely still superb! 💚

I was there when FeralHeart died...I watched it happen I remember that slowly, over time, there were less and less people and where you could once find huge groups of people and chat with them it was basically a ghost town. T'was a simpler time, staying up late on a school night on my parent's computer roleplaying my little heart out. I remember it feeling so lonely after everyone left

Shout out to all the kids with little to no parental supervision that played Impressive Title, Feral Heart, Arokai, Cereal Soup, Alicia online, Wolf Quest, Furcadia, Endless forest and Warrior cats game

I've never heard of these games but I'm interested

UPDATE ABOUT FH! Kovu has released the source code to what can be described as the rebirth of classing FH; FHU! Feral Heart Unleashed is currently up in beta, and improvements are being made.

Here is a short story about how I became kinda infamous on FeralHeart: So I was somewhere around 10-12 years old. I just started playing FeralHeart and had discovered their map maker. I made a few maps for my friends to enjoy including one with giant butterflies that had portals on them. (we roleplayed that they would fly you over to next map) The issue was the butterfly model couldn't be placed low enough on the ground to be reached without wings without it clipping through. So I added collision boxes to the tree model that came with the game so players could easily climb on them and jump over to the butterfly. Little did I know that doing so would actually affect models on the official maps. Needless to say I abused this new superpower alot and climbed onto the parts of the said tree model where you usually could not. I of course shared my methods with everyone who asked and shortly after I was not the only one doing this. Few days later I was contacted by mod through chat, but I did not know how to respond to them as they were ignoring (or not seeing) messages I sent to regular chat and I did not know which channel to use to speak to them. The got angry, accused me of "hacking the game" and I got permanently banned from the forums and had a pretty long ban from the game. I think I remain banned on the forums to this day. And that is a story of how a little child hacked FeralHeart and caused a lot of trouble. In all fairness, if your game can be hacked by a 10 yo with 0 coding skills, you deserve it.

The comment section is filled with scene kids, warrior cat kids, and furries and I'm living for it XD

Remember those "ADOPT A PUP" or "FIND A MATE" people who just sat there

My favourite one was The Endless Forest. You couldn't actually do anything in the game, and it was notorious for the dev team's decision to restrict all communication between players to emotes - absolutely no chat function. You played as a fawn that, after about a month of irl time, would age into a stag. You couldn't customise your stag unless you managed to convince another player to use forest magic on you for an effect- difficult when you can't chat, but not impossible. It was so relaxing and quite lovely to look at. The dev team was massively into hands-on development: they'd host events on the server where their avatars (in-game Gods) would make incredible magic happen that was never seen otherwise. I think I remember a concert happening once in game. It was kinda more of an art piece than an MMORPG. From what I remember, it actually was featured in a few art galleries at its height.

I missed so many things. So many memories that cannot make me cringe.

"the reception was... Bad" Listen, I've never heard about this game in my entire life and was never really into anthropomorphic animal roleplay and even I felt betrayed by that return announcement from Kovu lmao

i was part of the original friend group that KovuLKD created IT for, as well as a concept artist on aro'kai. honestly i thought these games and their absolutely wild history was going to disappear completely, so it's nice to see a solid compilation. makes me feel like it really did happen and i wasn't crazy LMAO. fun vid, thanks for putting it together! some wacky tidbits that weren't in here since it concerned specific people (me lol), but might be fun for anyone interested: - kovuLKD had me and a friend create a custom item that was meant as a gift for just us two. he later leaked it on IT. the absolute height of drama for me as a little kid LOL - somewhere in the middle of the superfeesh bait-and-switch, me and my friend (same as above) were fired from concept artist positions on aro'kai on account of being "too bossy." we were both stumped as superfeesh previously had been very excited whenever we balled ideas, and now was extremely hostile. we found out much later that they were in fact not feesh. - there definitely was an ongoing rivalry between arokai and FH LMAO. you can see remnants of it in the glowing crystals that were added into FH later. they were a concept i coined for arokai, and were to be plot important. somebody who was reading the mod forums was definitely leaking things - not really wack but it was a cool older feature: you used to be able to tame pets on IT. the fanciest one was a manta ray which you could only get by defeating a giant manta ray boss who spawned in a designated cave. you needed several people to take it down, or else its health would refill. was always bummed they removed this!

just a moment of silence to appreciate her makeup in literally every video