so you haven't played UO in almost a year yet your feel comfortable enough to give others advice on if they should or should not come and play.... and you are here posting in the forums of a game that you don't play anymore.... and haven't played for almost a year.... i find that strange.
You're mistaking the squeaky wheel for all the wheels.
Then you know why already
Did you give Siege an honest try? I am a vet of 14 years and there is still too much to farm, to fight and and to make friends with.....
You have 47+ accounts?? How do you even keep them straight? (I know I have a GM Begger somewhere)..hehe
Spreadsheets... while UO isn't anywhere nearly as bad as EVE is reputed to be in that respect, if you play the game seriously at all, you need some way to keep track of stuff. I've never played any MMORPG where I didn't need some kind of a tracking system.
The only realistic way for that to happen would be for EA to put it up for sale, and for a willing buyer to show up who has the strength to endure the slings and arrows and flames of the existing playerbase. As much as so many call for upgrades and overhauls... very few want to see anything actually change. UO players, are, by and large, a very conservative lot and very sensitive to their own ox being gored regardless of the long term health of the game.
You have to take these forums with a grain of salt as IMHO they do not represent the majority of the playerbase. What gets posted here is posted by the same 40-50 people every day/year and most of it is the same thing you`ll read from posts created last year or the year before that etc,etc.
nah, siege is like any other server minus tram, i would gladly pay to play on a classic server, ie a server with a timeframe before age of shadows came out
Few of those types of shards available that don't have sub fees
i know i play 1, but id rather play an official one
You know I don't think I could handle a spreadsheet, I catalog 90% of my stuff in my head, granted I don't have 40+ accounts, but I do play several games.. Still I might be old fashioned, sometimes I'll do an inventory and pull out a note pad and a pen and do it all by hand.
That's the truth, for all the calls for changes, when we get them everyone seems to hate them. In all honesty it would be nice to see UO get a real overhaul, but that's not going to happen. EA has been investing in the "Franchise" which I don't really understand. Almost anyone who remembers Ultima's peak period has A) Left Games long behind B) Heavily invested in another game C) Playing UO. Boosting the Franchise with a F2P, isn't going to help UO much if any, though remastering so to speak all the orginal games on a current engine and releasing them and an actual honest overhaul of Ultima Online might.
Cause that game will be around in 15 years
Who said anything about AFKI am proud to say that after 15 years of play I no longer die to Mongbats while afk. Well only if it's one at a time.
im not a moderator for UO, im a moderator for stratics.
Too funny. Politely call the doomsayers and malcontents out and all of a sudden UO is perfect and still the greatest game ever.
Yes, yes! It is the greatest and most perfect red to be found in all the lands. No one could argue with such hyperbole.
i log in off and on at least once per week in hopes something has changed, be it a friend comes back, something gets put up for sale, or a quick run around to see if there's any life to my shard, so far nothing worth staying logged in for. but the main reason i still have an active acct: rewards and my keep full of crap ive been hoarding and cant seem to let go of
DITTO -
Wow...did that chest bring back memories!!!!!
It just dawned on me, with that many accounts, your subscription fees are probably single-handedly keeping one of the shards alive! In fact they should rename one of the shards in your honor. While we're at it, they should auction off titles to each of the shards, the top bidder gets to be king/queen of their shard and decide what ruleset will be followed.
It's kind of funny you say that. Anytime I used to think about closing down an account, I would rationalize it by saying, yeah, but it's less than the cost of lunch, so I'll just bring lunch to work one more day a month than usual and use the savings to keep my accounts alive. The scary part is when you start adding up the costs over the years and realize just how much you're money your spending to keep a virtual house standing, and the time you're putting into the game to keep that virtual house organized. But yes, if my budget gets tight, there are things I would sacrifice long before UO.
