People in comments section are, unsurprisingly enough, finding the subscription model extremely alienating. Having only a - TWO - week free trial adding insult to the injury. It just looks a little bad is all. There are precious few MMOs still able to pull this off..and none of them are from 90's. WoW can still do this. Yet, even they have been offering an endless trial for a very long time.
Potentially ending up in Steam increases visibility of UO greatly. Without a doubt some 30-somethings who used to play in 90's feel the old spark igniting and return to check the game out. Brand new players? Much more questionable. In eyes of rest of the world, sub model is absolutely jurassic leftover from world that ended somewhere around 2010 or so. Precious few brand new players will find it in them to justify a monthly fee. By now there are dozens of extremely good MMOs out there that have an extremely fair F2P setup going. Idea of paying monthly for UO just feels..It's just a big flat "nop" for them.
Potentially ending up in Steam increases visibility of UO greatly. Without a doubt some 30-somethings who used to play in 90's feel the old spark igniting and return to check the game out. Brand new players? Much more questionable. In eyes of rest of the world, sub model is absolutely jurassic leftover from world that ended somewhere around 2010 or so. Precious few brand new players will find it in them to justify a monthly fee. By now there are dozens of extremely good MMOs out there that have an extremely fair F2P setup going. Idea of paying monthly for UO just feels..It's just a big flat "nop" for them.
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