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Just open every account active or inactive
Oh they have done...LOL....

:pie:Way to go devs....awesome...!!!:pie:
 
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yup - whether ya like it or not you may now have neighbors that plunk a plot and do nothing more. Note - I said "may".
 

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I only hope they have done it on purpose to reset every single house timer [maybe]...including all the bugged ones that have stood forever...then when they close back up every account ever made... the 90 day timer will start on all the unused accounts....and hopefully they will all become unbugged and decay as normal.
 

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It's not ALL accounts...I tried to log in to my secondary acct and it won't let me....so maybe it's just closed accts that have houses on them?? I don't know..I was hoping to be able to log into my secondary acct because I forgot what chars I had on it and I'd love to find out!

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Nope, Larisa friend just was able to open up & log onto his & it's been off for almost a yr +. No house no nothing. His other account, someone hacked it AFTER he had shut it off & deleted all seven toons. He knew it was after it was Shut off because he tried to log into it the day after it was to run out & he couldn't.....
Smells of inside job to me on that.... :mad:
 

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Well now I'm upset! LOL

Why can't I log onto mine??? :( i know I have 2 houses that I placed during a WBtB event that are STILL there so the hope that these will be fixed is HUGE...I placed a tiny one with the date of placement on the house sign just to see how long it would stayt..they REALLY need to fix that!



But I would love to be able to log onto my secondary acct..I know I ran my player run towns auction from that account, my auction house was on it so I'm dying to find out what I have on there...but not willing to pay the $12.99 just yet as I just spend money to upgrade to SA that I can't use yet!!

So yeah..Larisa is Emo...gonna dig out my blackrock here pretty soon :/
 

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u can log into any closed account u own....maybe your password is wrong
 

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what sucks is i logged into my 2nd old account and im 2 months away from my 2 year vet reward lol.

maybe it will take them 2 months to fix the website and i can get my rewards :)
 

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Nope it's not wrong...

http://i55.***********/waitsl.jpg
 

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well iam expecting lots of new plots springing up...albeit for 90 days....i only hope its in the grand design of fixing al the bugged ones??

suprized EA did not announce it as another ''come back to brit'' freebie tooo
 

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very strange....sorry then i do not know why?
 

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No way would my account be banned...I'm a good girl! I never did anything wrong in my life!

Well..not on UO anyway ;)

So that can't be it...*cries*
 

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what happened? where is the news?
your post suggests that we know what your talking about.

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There is no news.

Someone obviously tried logging on to an inactive account for lord knows what reason :/ and found that they could log on to it.

I'm assuming that since they put all accounts on *hold*, payments and everything..that they just turned off the payment system? I'd really like to know what happened...but now it seems that everyone can log onto accounts that are inactive, just like a Welcome Back to Brit promo.

Well...I can't :/ I think they have it out for me!

Anyone else having issues logging into inactive accounts or am I the only lucky one?
 

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no idea what the problem is your side..i know half dozen people that haev just logged into long long closed accounts and looked trough there chars for old stuff etc and some have placed houses for at least 90 days storage...and the fun have having another house for a short time for free i guess...also one as placed housing on other shard so u can play 2 shards or three etc all with housig for a short time....

its great gift by EA ...cant understand why they didnt tell us about it though.

and they could easy stop the housing by closing the house server so they must be fine with it.......

it will make the game look fuller again...
 

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what happened? where is the news?
your post suggests that we know what your talking about.

lorddog
due to the new data base relocation etc etc u can log into any closed account for free......no news really...its not new..been like it for 2-3 days maybe more
 
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I was able to do it for my trial account I set up earlier this year, and had never paid on.
 

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Nope it's not wrong...

http://i55.***********/waitsl.jpg
Larisa, when you stopped playing on that account, did you just let the paid time on it run out or did you "close" the account before the paid time was used up? Or could someone else have played on the account after you thought it was suspended and ended up getting the account into some kind of trouble?

If you actually "closed" the acount before the time ran out, I wonder if that could have set a different kind of "inactive" flag on the account than an account where the game time simply ran out.
 

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Larisa
just checked a older account of mine, holding a house since welcome back and it opened up fine!!
expect it will fall now lol!! my guess is they will reset house server after this to catch the ones having houses open for a few years without paying!
 

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Larisa
just checked a older account of mine, holding a house since welcome back and it opened up fine!!
expect it will fall now lol!! my guess is they will reset house server after this to catch the ones having houses open for a few years without paying!
that i hope is the grand plan

if it aint it should be,,,hire me EA!!!

Surely if all accounts have become live then when they close again the 90 day timer MUST bcome active on every single house in uo...if they aint used..like many castles/keeps on every shard ...they really should drop after 90 days
 

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house account i checked had a house on it for at least 3yrs with out paying from a welcome back event and guild emissary in a guild long ago was in :)

expect to see a lot of items poping up from long closed accounts holding "rares" in next few days

fun times

reading that sent chills up my spine


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I think I just let the time run out on that account and never renewed it?

It's been so long I don't remember...and since Acct. management is down I can't even check to see if there IS billiing info on it...if there is, it's an old credit card that's been LONG since shut off.

I HAD a list of all 21 accts I have....with usernames and passwords and dates of creation..trying to find it. I used them to hold buildings for our town....and I know one of them has the 18x18 in Tram by brit crossroads on Origin that's STILL there.

IF I can find the list before the 11th I'll see if I can log into any of my other accts..if not then I'll have to watch the house in 90 days for any signs of decay.

I do remember when I was still playing they snuck in things like this without telling anyone so noone had the opportunity to find a work-around.

I still fondly remember the house fires in Luna...those were fun times :)
 
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Is September the month they do the Welcome back to Brit promo? Maybe EA is setting the 90 day timer now so all houses will fall 30 days after the welcome back program ends. Just a thought.

If anyone from Atlantic, or other shard even, would like to play Siege during this time I'd love to join you. I have some gold there, no house or items. Was thinking it would be a lot of fun to go with other prodo players, and it sounds as if there are plenty of vendors there for everything needed. PM me if anyone is interested. I don't PVP, just think it would be fun to start from the bottom up again.
 
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sure, it'll be here, soon. heard that story before


but thanks for the links
 

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that i hope is the grand plan

if it aint it should be,,,hire me EA!!!

Surely if all accounts have become live then when they close again the 90 day timer MUST bcome active on every single house in uo...if they aint used..like many castles/keeps on every shard ...they really should drop after 90 days
I brought it up last Return to Brit and they didn't fix it. Just because we can log in all the accounts doesn't mean they are live and will start the timer in 90 days, it could just be like Return to Brit. HOPEFULLY they will fix it and the housing server will get the enema it's needed for a decade. With their track record on fixing housing I'm not holding my breath and will see it when I believe it.

In the meanwhile after years of Return to Brit and now this it's getting pretty hard to upgrade houses with people placing free ones that never decay everywhere in many cases just to block other people.
 

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I wouldn't mind if they made it free to play but charged you rent for housing based on the size of your house. Then if you want to play from your bank box it's no charge but if you have a house you still pay per month average same fee unless you have a castle or huge house them more or a small house then less.
 
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I can't wait for for my 10 houses on 10 shards to start to decay due to some "unforeseen glitch" with this new system.
Good point here. We actually have taken a LOT of time on the backend to make sure this doesn't happen. We know that the majority of our players put time into their homes, so we taken a few precautions to make sure this does not happen.

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so we taken a few precautions to make sure this does not happen.



*sigh*

Fortunately ... Failures have no associated Mass component

Else ...

We would be well inside the event horizon of the necessary consequence of a Blackhole/Singularity.

No excuses ...



indeed

My children curse thee
for having to deal with my anger

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Larisa I have checked all my accounts including the 3 that are never to go on again and all but the 3 are active. The page you get gives you 4 options for reason your account is not on, Info is not on file.... in other words:
1. you didnt activate the account on a payment plan once your initial 30 day trial.
2. the game time -which doesnt apply to this.
3. The account was suspended, though if you say it was not on anytime pryor this too is not valid.
4. The account was banned, not saying you did anything but it is possible someone hacked your account without your knowlage and got it in deep doodoo.
Now here is the OR in this last one... you said you placed a house on this account during Back to Brit... someone might have turned it in to the Dev/Mesanna and the account was flagged an there fore in trouble due to error in timer.

Wish I could help you more hun.


As for the Turn on of all accounts....

What better way to encourage old players to try UO again!!! Free time to come back and get hooked in the game and friends. It is a great idea, just wish they would have told the whole world of old UO players so we could get alot more back in game. Was on Sonoma with son, doing spredsheet mantence on characters and friending to homes. Son had one account that on that shard all characters but 1 still had "young" after their name...
I was plesantly surprised how many wanted to help him thinking he was new. I prased them all in chat and in person for their kind offers and willingness to help a "young" player.

We all need to look at this as a good thing, ICQ,IM, Facebook,Twitter, anyway you can!! your friends who quit .... invite them back to try, its free... if they played once they might get back into the game... you got to admit we could sure use the players.

Look at this as a good thing kiddo's.....
 

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Hey...only Fayled can word things in just the right way!

And I know I paid for that account for almost the same amount of time as my main account because I ran auctions on that account. I ran it off the same CC as my main acct...and I NEVER gave the info for that acct to anyone.

Once acct. management is back up im going to do some digging :/

Also didn't they say WAY back in the day when we asked about all the illegal houses that the server the housing was on was really old and outdated and they were afraid to mess with it too much?

I have 2 runebooks full of houses owned by Tyrant on Origin that are still there. I know of people that ligitly have 10 houses...I JUST found out of one, 11 houses all made to look like 1..it's pretty cool..but not many people do that.

Still it would be nice to have the unpaid for ones go away :/
 

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Oooh an unexpected return to Britannia then lol.

Might be a good time to make it official and try to get some of the ex players back in at the same time. It'd be a shame if the opportunity was there and they didn't know about it IMO.

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AAaaand they just made it offical lol.

I STILL CAN'T LOG INTO MY ACCOUNT!

*throws tantrum*
 

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*pats Larisa on the head*
Don't worry. It will all be ok... eventually.
 

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It isn't a bad idea I think Lord of the Rings they are going to allow some limited free access but if you want more charcters and stuff you pay.
 

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It isn't a bad idea I think Lord of the Rings they are going to allow some limited free access but if you want more charcters and stuff you pay.
Oh. A sort of free to play option you mean? Has anyone here any ideas on how that might or might not work for UO? :D
 
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even if we had the Best ideas, doesn't matter, we don't make the decisions.
If that question were asked by a Dev, for actual consideration...
 

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I have a couple of accounts, all of which I can login to. I only receive the message you're getting when attempting to login to a banned account. Tbh, that account is banned.
 
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If UO were to go f2p - I'd be back tonight. I love UO - it was my first MMORPG. There are things and especially people I miss (shout out to Spogfrawn), but right now I'm enjoying f2p lotro. Will I ever come back even if UO never goes f2p? Maybe. It was the screenshots of KR that got me interested in coming back last time. I wish EA would pour the time and resources into this grand old game it deserves...
 

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I also play a f2p game called Jade Dynasty. I love it. When I left UO I played a game called Twelve Sky, then Twelve Sky 2, which were both decent, but all the while looking for a game that came even CLOSE to the depth of UO, and there just isn't anything out there.

Sure some games have SOME of the aspects that make UO what it is, but nothing will ever ever EVER come close to being as immursive (Spelling fail) as UO.

Paying $12.99 a month for this? TOTALLY worth it, and I'm glad I am able to play again.

Bringing new players here? Not easy...what with all the amazing 3D graphics and games out there, but graphics is just PART of what makes a game enjoyable. The *younger* generation is so different, and UO doesn't meet their criteria in many aspects, most people watch YouTube videos of a game before they decide to play..and if I were a teenager looking for a game to play, and watched a video of UO, I wouldn't play...putting myself in that mindset...having watched videos of the 3D games that are out there and then this one..no I wouldn't play...graphically it's seriously lacking in terms of what's *on par* right now.

It's like growing up with Sesame Street...and then watching it now....I don't like the new Sesame Street cus it's not what I grew up with...but that doesn't mean it's not good or even better.

Transformers...I grew up watching the cartoon (yeah im a nerd) and I had my Optimus Prime super cool toy...when they came out with the movie I was hesitant to watch it, and I was blown away.

Kids nowadays NEED that intense mind-blowing in your face graphics that they are used to seeing on a daily basis. So getting new players here is gonna be a challenge, but one that I am confident can be overcome.

Getting the word out..getting the name out...the 14 day free trial is awesome, let people KNOW about it...the new player guide? WAY outdated...it still says on there you can choose between 2D and 3D.

Put boxes out for the anniversaries, get some exposure...start doing the townhall meetings again, bring it to the people...UO will prevail, it just wont' be easy, but then again, nothing ever is ;)
 
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I also play a f2p game called Jade Dynasty. I love it. When I left UO I played a game called Twelve Sky, then Twelve Sky 2, which were both decent, but all the while looking for a game that came even CLOSE to the depth of UO, and there just isn't anything out there.

Sure some games have SOME of the aspects that make UO what it is, but nothing will ever ever EVER come close to being as immursive (Spelling fail) as UO.

Paying $12.99 a month for this? TOTALLY worth it, and I'm glad I am able to play again.

Bringing new players here? Not easy...what with all the amazing 3D graphics and games out there, but graphics is just PART of what makes a game enjoyable. The *younger* generation is so different, and UO doesn't meet their criteria in many aspects, most people watch YouTube videos of a game before they decide to play..and if I were a teenager looking for a game to play, and watched a video of UO, I wouldn't play...putting myself in that mindset...having watched videos of the 3D games that are out there and then this one..no I wouldn't play...graphically it's seriously lacking in terms of what's *on par* right now.

It's like growing up with Sesame Street...and then watching it now....I don't like the new Sesame Street cus it's not what I grew up with...but that doesn't mean it's not good or even better.

Transformers...I grew up watching the cartoon (yeah im a nerd) and I had my Optimus Prime super cool toy...when they came out with the movie I was hesitant to watch it, and I was blown away.

Kids nowadays NEED that intense mind-blowing in your face graphics that they are used to seeing on a daily basis. So getting new players here is gonna be a challenge, but one that I am confident can be overcome.

Getting the word out..getting the name out...the 14 day free trial is awesome, let people KNOW about it...the new player guide? WAY outdated...it still says on there you can choose between 2D and 3D.

Put boxes out for the anniversaries, get some exposure...start doing the townhall meetings again, bring it to the people...UO will prevail, it just wont' be easy, but then again, nothing ever is ;)
:bowdown: BlackRock Larissa :love:

One minor (understatement) quibble dear ...

'tisn't "those kids" that UO should be marketing towards ...
it is the "delayed gratification" types ... which can learn and grow and remain as vets IN CHARACTER in Role Play ... Think on it ...

As for "boxes"? nope ... corner has been turned there ... heading towards more digital download, Less shelf space in brick and mortar buildings ... not a guess ... that's per CEO whatzisname, few months back iirc.
*sigh*
>I Like< boxes, I would like at least the Option to gamestore a shipping and handling DvD or flash drive with a complete install of current software ...
*sucks teeth*
Tsk!

Anyways ... town halls? *waffles hand* metso metso ... the fanaddicts, sure, >they'll go<, say "best costume" = "unique swag" and might get some local news pieces done ...
probably think they're displaced Potter fans ... but ...
Well ... won't know till they "try" ...
*Holds finger to wind* mmmmmm ... :scholar: I sense an embarrasing incident of Josh 2.o redemption worth :blushing:


Bring it to the people? mmmmmm ... no
I would advise >only after< getting it to run as smooth and seamless
AS AN OLD GAME >should be< ... and even then
Marketed as what HAS worked ... as a Role Playing Game
A deep involved long haul Role playing game with a medieval theme ...

Let me see now ... Ah!
Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet | Video on TED.com

:scholar: potential long haul vets ...
 

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Okay...someone needs to send that video to BioWare or EA or Origin or whoever..I bow to that man..thank you Fayled that is so perfect.

I think that will be my new motto...don't eat the marshmellow yet...

I agree...in every sense of the words *instant gratification*

It's how today works though...unfortunatly. ONLINE shopping, ONLINE email, ONLINE pizza delivery....everyone carries their cell phones/iPads/tablets with them...if I can't have it NOW I don't want it..I can't wait!!!!

Like now how many people are biting their nails waiting for account management to come back online?

THOSE people...ate the marshmellow...Fayled you have forever changed the way I look at marshmellows! :bowdown:

So how many of us *Vets* do you think ate the marshmellow?

I think, like you...a box...I have even though I've not been here since the beginning, I have my 9th anny box, I have my Samuri Empire box...I like tangible...sure quick easy online downloads are great...but gimme a CD!!!! I'll wait for shipping...let that marshmellow sit there for an hour! GIMME MY BOX!

I think the townhall meetups....the Harry Potter referance made me giggle BUT I didn't see any fellow Sosarians dressed as their charactor at the Chicago meetup I went to..thankfully :coco:

But would it be so bad to get SOME presence? I agree that our beloved game does need some tweaking...but a mere online presence isn't enough..like I stated before, most people that are searching for a new game to play usually go to the main website of said game and watch a video...and that's not gonna cut it here...even WITH Pinco's UI which is pretty amazing it still falls short of what the marshmellow-eaters are looking for.

BUT...say they had a chance to SEE someone play...to SEE how..totally emersive the game actually is...wouldn't that help? Bring new players to the game I mean...1 out of 3 ate the marshmellow...we need to target the one's that didn't!

Marshmellows....who knew...*wishes for a Marshmellow-BlackRock infected*:D
 

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