With the influx of larger, more commercially produced titles, games like Astonia III get seemingly brushed aside. Basically, games with better graphics and more players are automatically favored over the smaller more humble MMORPGs. A lot of the time, however, it is the smaller games that deserve praise. The existence of these games allows players who long for the online role-play experience to have a taste without having high-end machines to handle the latest resource hog. Is Astonia III one of the diamonds in the rough, or a game better left in the far corners of the internet?