I realy cant see why any of u folks think for one minute GAMES like wow have been more popular than uo... ..
Please dont come out with the wow as got 11 million players scandal
Im kinda guessing if uo had counted=added every trial account ever made and every paid account ever made and every japan multi-game shared/internet cafe account then uo would be well above this number too!!!!!!!!!!!
ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE IS IT!!
I hate to rain on your love of UO, and I don't feel WoW is a superior game in and of itself, but you are so far off mark with this it is rediculous.
Even IF WoW had exactly as many subscribers as UO, and over its life had had the same number as UO has had in its life, it has done so in less than 1/2 the time.
But those aren't correct anyway. On WoW as with UO there are seperate servers(shards) to play on, and various lands to explore. But while on UO you can roam the majority of the lands and never see another player other than at Luna or an active Champ spawn, on WoW nearly everywhere you go you are competing with numerous others for kills or resources.
(and there is far more area on a WoW server than a UO shard)
Is WoW a better game? Not at all.
But it covers the 2 most important factors to success. Gaining players, and Keeping players.
Gaining - Graphics and easy to learn to play.
Keeping - Customer Service.
Unless you page on something rediculously simple like "What does a yellow ! mean?" you don't get a canned responce. An actual GM opens a dialog with you until the problem is resolved. And you don't page on Tuesday and get a responce on Thursday like in UO. On WoW it is rare to wait more than 1 hour for a responce even at peek hours.
As to the Topic. I loved to single player Ultima games myself, tho I never could figure out what I was supposed to be doing on Pegan.
But they have said they don't feel the players really want Ultima in UO any more. Sadly I suspect they're right. Most of what people cling to in UO has nothing to do with the Ultima series.
