They fired the person who did it.Where has Five On Friday gone?
They fired the person who did it.Why are there rarely ever any new updates at UOHearld?
God only knows! Maybe they just have enough staff left to keep the game ticking over.What are the developers working on now?
They fired the person who did it.Who is in charge of community relations?
Which ive asked numerous questions but my questions never get OK'ed...so unless you have a pretty much worthless question and it dont get any feathers ruffled then your question will be posted...that would explain why only one question has been posted since the 16th of last month...The Five on Friday was replaced with a moderated forum found here.
It's been the holidays and people were on vacation - combined with some new people handling it.
The last HoC chat from December 22nd had some hints at future directions.
We now have 2 community coordinators: Andy and James.
I refuse to believe this.They fired the person who did it.
I just logged on and is okay...My concern is why has account management been down for days.
My concern is why has account management been down for days.
From what I can gather, it looks to me like most of the UO guys were fired, and the Dark Age of Camelot & warhammer guys have been put on double/triple duty to maintain UO.I really think a lot of the UO folks have been pressed into helping on Dark Age of Camelot as they close down the European side of that game by the end of January because they did not renew the license of the company that was running the game for them in Europe.
From what I can gather from comments on the DAoC page on Facebook, no one knows yet whether or not their characters on the European server(s) can be transferred to the U.S. servers. If they can't, how will Mythic or GoA that was handling things in Europe take care of unused subscription fees? Also, the U.S. servers have a cap on how many accounts can be logged on at one time and once it is exceeded, people get the message that the server is full and they can't log in. DAoC's subscription fee is even higher than UO's. Some people are excited about the possibility of moving characters from very dead European servers to fuller U.S. servers, while people who have been playing on those U.S. servers are aggravated over the possibility that they'll have even more instances of not being able to log on.
Sounds like a lot of headaches and an "all hands on deck" sort of situation for the folks at Mythic.
You can see Andy in this video about DAoC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AGjijiBA0I.
Andy, James, and Josh Drescher (their boss?) are in this video about the 12 Days of Mythic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmUIvp1-H24.
What about the subscription fees? I believe if you read the tos, which few people do, you agree that have only have to give you 90 days notice of loss of service and they keep any remaining fees. sure daoc has a similar tosI really think a lot of the UO folks have been pressed into helping on Dark Age of Camelot as they close down the European side of that game by the end of January because they did not renew the license of the company that was running the game for them in Europe.
From what I can gather from comments on the DAoC page on Facebook, no one knows yet whether or not their characters on the European server(s) can be transferred to the U.S. servers. If they can't, how will Mythic or GoA that was handling things in Europe take care of unused subscription fees? Also, the U.S. servers have a cap on how many accounts can be logged on at one time and once it is exceeded, people get the message that the server is full and they can't log in. DAoC's subscription fee is even higher than UO's. Some people are excited about the possibility of moving characters from very dead European servers to fuller U.S. servers, while people who have been playing on those U.S. servers are aggravated over the possibility that they'll have even more instances of not being able to log on.
Sounds like a lot of headaches and an "all hands on deck" sort of situation for the folks at Mythic.
You can see Andy in this video about DAoC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AGjijiBA0I.
Andy, James, and Josh Drescher (their boss?) are in this video about the 12 Days of Mythic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmUIvp1-H24.
actually, looks like 30 days if I'm reading their TOS correctly:What about the subscription fees? I believe if you read the tos, which few people do, you agree that have only have to give you 90 days notice of loss of service and they keep any remaining fees. sure daoc has a similar tos
I think there might have been a separate ToS for the version of DAoC that was being run by the third-party on servers in Europe. I didn't read it in detail when I was browsing their site earlier today.What about the subscription fees? I believe if you read the tos, which few people do, you agree that have only have to give you 90 days notice of loss of service and they keep any remaining fees. sure daoc has a similar tos
When did this happen? Is there a link to any of this info?How did they all get fired?
Last I heard they were laid off.
its very true, and thats just the thing!, they havnt posted any info about it, or why, as soon as Chrissay was let go! the FOF was dead..Oh, was that announced on the official UO site (UO Herald) by Mythic? If so please provide link. TY
Not posted on the Uoherald site but, was posted by:Oh, was that announced on the official UO site (UO Herald) by Mythic? If so please provide link. TY
Which is wrong IMO, Straitics should have no input into what we the PAYING customers of UO want to say to the DEV's. Its a cop out by Cal and a kick in the face for the paying customers of UO. Third party people who are neither employed by EA or come under its Terms of Employment should have no right to what we want to say to the DEV's.The Five on Friday was replaced with a moderated forum found here.
Don't forget that you can always use the Feedback form on the official UO site to make a one-way communication directly to the UO team: http://www.uoherald.com/feedback/index.php.Which is wrong IMO, Straitics should have no input into what we the PAYING customers of UO want to say to the DEV's. Its a cop out by Cal and a kick in the face for the paying customers of UO. Third party people who are neither employed by EA or come under its Terms of Employment should have no right to what we want to say to the DEV's.
UOHerald.com is the ONLY place things like Ask the DEV's forums and posts should be.. NOT here, Stratics just dosnt cut the mustard.
Sorry but the Mods and Admins here just dont have the right to tell us what we can and cant say to the UO DEV's and teams. Same way that the Admins and Mods here have no right to ban paying UO customers from the forums when essential information is only posted on this site.
So ya... the loss of FoF is a cop out and the replacement here is useless.
Cal... You need to get offical forums back on UOHerald and have the offical stuff avaliable for ALL players not just on this unoffical third party site with no endorsements officaly on the UOHerald pages.
*coughs* rant done![]()
Hmmm...I do see "Ultima Online Stratics" on the list of fansites on the official UO site, along with 21 other sites. http://www.uoherald.com/fansites/Stratics like UOForums is only a fan site, but sadly last I checked isnt listed alongside the other Fansites.
Whilst I can understand while they did it, free moderation, I also agree with the above post.At the end of the day, the only place offical posts should be is on UOHerald and avaliable though the patcher.
Which wouldn't be allowed without permission from the copyright holder, which is probably Stratics.I also think some fansites re-post the "Ask The Devs" threads on their own sites (e.g., on UOForums, you can find the re-postings in the "UO News" section).
Permission was granted to UOForums a few years back, by the UOSS Managing editor Joshua Rowan and Zigzag (from memory)Which wouldn't be allowed without permission from the copyright holder, which is probably Stratics.
Which highlights my point completely! They should post on all fansites or only on UOHerald.com...Which wouldn't be allowed without permission from the copyright holder, which is probably Stratics.