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Selling Stratics?
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You'd think this would be a sticky 
*gets the thread all sticky with his peanut butter n jelly sammich*
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The CPA says: trust but verify.
Flippa auction currently shows only 12 months of financial information. Another 24-36 months worth of information would be nice to see.
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*Yanks his ears* Hush You!
Think I'll take the wife out to dinner and get her some flowers and have a little talk with her this evening....wish me luck..
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*crosses fingers and toes*
Does she play? On something expense, I find it helps to be prepared to offer up an awesome gift to the wife. Just sit down prepared to bargain!
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Here's a new IPad sweetie, with all your romance novels already pre loaded on to it... and bejeweled. Now... lets talk about how I need to spend 6k on a website so the world can be a better place.
*gets the hose*
I feel this isn't correct, but I don't feel that this is the place to discuss it.
PM me if youd like to continue to discuss it.
The point wasn't to take a jab at Ron, I feel he did fine. Just took it a different direction than I would have.
Well with me... I find if I wanna buy something that isn't exactly necessary for 6K, I need to be prepared to let her get something goofy at about 2K. The cost of doing business
The thought of this, in general, terrifies me
No one has mentioned it yet, but I guess this also means the information you've provided for your accounts is also for sale. Hope none of what you've provided matches other login information.
Hope none of what you've provided matches other login information.
Since tradespot shut down. =|
What GL lunar house you own smoot?just curious......I got oneverything on GL too
Yeah I'd pitch in but in no way would I want to be responsible for anything.
Statics would have to have a clear direction, along with restoring the main page linking all the information.
I'd chip in if someone who actually cared, knew what they were doing, and has done it before. I wouldn't even want any return. Just keep it in a loyal UO players hand.
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I care. I know what I am doing. I've done it before.
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The whole chip in thing to buy it is something I considered, but I haven't checked into the legal ramifications of that (taxes, etc.) I, for one, while interested in running Stratics do not have the time or energy this month to look into the legal side of things if I were to work with people to create a fund to buy it. And the legal side of things is where it all gets messy.
You would still have to pay the seller.
Forming a non-profit with beginning debt is very much frowned upon by the IRS.
What would be a good way to gather money is to solicit angel-investors, set goals with clear expectations for the site within a certain time frame, and then raise the funds to repay the investors to make the site completely "free of debt". Only then would application for non-profit status be feasible, but there are still challenges with that.
Yes, I know these things...
*returns to lurking*
Hmmm. Colour me dubious. seems quite a coincidence that shortly after the point is reached where there is a server charge it goes up for sale. There is however another possibility....
I was always a bit sceptical when the UO forums were seperated out from the rest of the gaming community forums and given there own site. Of course they stated the reasons as blah blah blah but I always suspected that the real reason was that it would save a whole lot of hassle when UO eventually shut down and the UO section of the forums became redundant. Im wondering now if the tip off from EA has come through and this is a cash in with the knowledge that in 6-12 months UO will be no more.
I haven't been told anything like that. I think the game will still be around for years.
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Ron Bron
I'd be thinking it's more to do with the New UO website from Broadsword. They added a Wiki and have stated that they "will" be adding a forums.
Sort of makes everything else redundant when that will become the Official forums for UO.
Of course it will. It will be around probably forever in freeshard form.
Even if you had some information and were bailing then you obviously couldnt say that so your denial is kind of moot.
Haha well I suppose you are right about that... Alright I guess I'll stay quiet then.
Regards,
Ron Bron
I doubt UO are going anywhere. we (the players) have survived 18 years. we was between the first of this kind of game. We had seen so many new games come and go but we are still here.
UO have something only few games have, the feeling of being a world you live in, not just a game. UO is my second life and this page is a part of my second world.
A lot of us had been here from the early UO days and I believe UO will still be here for it's 20, 30 years birthday.
UO is about friends, online "family" and so are this forum.
Now what would happen to the community here, if UO really did shut down? I believe we would stay here as community and maybe find a new game to rebuild our chars and rebuild our second life in but maybe one of the UO clones we don't speak about, would be strong enough to take over. UO won't die that easy.
UO have something only few games have, the feeling of being a world you live in, not just a game. UO is my second life and this page is a part of my second world.
A lot of us had been here from the early UO days and I believe UO will still be here for it's 20, 30 years birthday.
UO is about friends, online "family" and so are this forum.
Now what would happen to the community here, if UO really did shut down? I believe we would stay here as community and maybe find a new game to rebuild our chars and rebuild our second life in but maybe one of the UO clones we don't speak about, would be strong enough to take over. UO won't die that easy.
Thanks for the thought, but I don't want it.
Typically the selling will goes about a domain. This means only the right to be the owner of a void stratics.com. The post on flippa reads like you will get the "software" and volunteers also (and of course the information about the users). So what is the selling about. Only the domain or the fully operational webstuff? And no i am not interested in the site. Just for understanding what will await us.
I think for the worst case, some of the informations which was collected since the last 17 years should be saved for a relaunch under another domain or the relaunch of this site under a new owner. I talk about stuf like "how is reforgin working", "historical informations" and so on.
Even if i use statics seldom, it would be a hole in the WW community of UO gamers.
At least we have one english forum on our German website. I am sure we could open it for all players if stratics vanishes ;-))
And thanks to all volunteers which has served to our needs in the past,present and maybe future.
I think for the worst case, some of the informations which was collected since the last 17 years should be saved for a relaunch under another domain or the relaunch of this site under a new owner. I talk about stuf like "how is reforgin working", "historical informations" and so on.
Even if i use statics seldom, it would be a hole in the WW community of UO gamers.
At least we have one english forum on our German website. I am sure we could open it for all players if stratics vanishes ;-))
And thanks to all volunteers which has served to our needs in the past,present and maybe future.
Maybe they should buy the whole forum and they would get a perfect forum, with all the UO history and loyal volunteers and community. Just my wish thinking. Then make it so connecting your account here to your master account, well give you subscriber advantage = Stratics Professional Accounts. And changes the avatar banner something that tell you are an active UO player. If non of your accounts are active, the advantage and banner will changes.
Excellent idea
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Actually it's not.Excellent idea
Couple of things you have to consider.
Broadsword and/or EA would most likely have rules on the forum that are designed to protect their Intellectual Property that would most likely be far stricter than what we have here now.
Tying a game account to the Forums would also mean when one is banned the other is, so yea getting banned in game for actions on the forums? Not exactly what I would want to see.
*Digs through his credit cards* Opportunities, Opportunities, but so much effing work with it!
I remember good old MyUO forum. I sure wish it back. They too want to keep their subscribers and get lost ones back.
Depend of how it is done. Sure there should be advantages and more options to paying subscribers in good standing. I'm sure it would be possible to limit a subscribers posting right without kicking them from the game.
But still, it may not happen. I just hope the new owner love UO as much as we do.
actually circumvent a perma ban by opening a new account is actionable....bye
The old UO forums were tied to accounts. Because of that they were a little more lenient and players were a little more tame. Would love to see UO bring back their forums...la
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Not always, in the past some folks have gotten a reprieve. We're talking about a 18y/o website, you'd hope people have grown a little in that time.actually circumvent a perma ban by opening a new account is actionable....bye
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Boy that is some wishful thinking.
Each year our player base gets worse and our subscription numbers get lower. It's a fact of any video game - the years go on and people play newer and betters ones. Look at WOW. Once over 12 million subs strong, now announcing to the press after dropping to 5 million, they will no longer report their subscription numbers. Why? Because they know it's going to get worse. And low numbers look bad because they eventually point to the inevitable.
EA has already shown their lack of interest in owning UO by passing off the responsibilities to other vendors. They offer us no customer service and could care less about our wants and needs. They haven't for years. It's sad to say, but UO has suffered terrible mismanagement since 2000. Profits were used to build and scrap ideas left and right. They pissed away all the potential the game had. And we won't get that back.
Eventually some senior level manager will look at the meager profits UO does make, and realize the game simply isn't worth keeping open any longer. We can pretend that the couple of million UO makes means something, but to a company that reports in the multi-billions, it doesn't.
We'll be a footnote in video game history.
Sad but true.
They said the same thing back in 99.
its not enforceable at all. ive been told this many times by the mods. which is why we have a good number of users here that were previously banned, and will continue to push the limits because another ban in the ends means nothing.actually circumvent a perma ban by opening a new account is actionable....bye
No way. In 99 they were almost done with UO2 - a massive, expensive project that would have revolutionized the MMO genre. Watch the old promo videos of the game - It had the look of WOW years before WOW existed. And after wasting untold millions developing it, some moron pulled the plug and allowed WOW to swoop in a few years later and take ownership of the entire MMO market.
This is only some of the mismanagement poor UO has suffered, but probably the most egregious.
Please shoot me a pm letting me know which mods are telling you this so I can get with them to make sure they arn't misinforming anyone. Ban evasion is an actionable offense. If your statement is merely in regards to people or groups whom you THINK should be banned, then no pm is necessary.
Kirthag (when she was admin) captain norrington, riyana, ron bron, basically everyone i asked said theres absolutely no way to ban someone because its impossible to prove anything.
so no, theres no way to get banned from stratics. thats a given. Mike D made a new account everyday for how long?