That's cool... I mean if you don't mind paying a monthly subscription for 15 year old game that's has more bugs in it then games that are currently in open beta then by all means keep making jokes.
But from my perspective it's pretty pathetic.
It's only part of a joke; that's genuinely a possible bug. And one I used to make a subtle point I knew most of the outraged would completely miss. Does it affect you? Nope. I've noticed it because I've been idly trying to get eggs for a battle chicken. Does it break the game in any meaningful way? Does anyone other than me even
notice if it's an issue? No. Because, in the real scheme of things, it's not of any real importance.
So it is with threads like these. "if you don't mind paying a monthly subscription for a
15 year old game".... you really don't understand people or priorities, do you? Those of us left actually
don't mind. We don't, because wouldn't be here if we did; We don't have a love/hate relationship with a game, we don't struggle with feelings of "I wish I knew how to quit you". We have wider lives, with loves and hates enough. We pay and play here, now, because despite the bugs, the core game for us works in some way. 15 years? I was playing computer games more than a decade before even that...
how little perspective you have. That's not to excuse some pretty hefty bugs here, today; but have you actually played any other MMOs? If you think UO is even the buggiest in that sub-genre of games...
But from your perspective, I expect it is. I can fully imagine there's some sort of Chicken Lizard egg that you can't ignore. I just don't think it, or myself is the centre of the universe. I
hated the nonsense that came with the election system, hated the grind with some of the recent content. The lack of support for customer service is shocking. But... turn on the news. Go and do it, right now; pick a story. 26 dead in Iraq's ongoing civil war. San Francisco is on fire. Poison gas attacks in Syria, either fired from Al Qaeda on one side or Assad on the other and Russia and the United States picking sides and drawing red lines... But hey, you want to get enraged by the state of a basically working
computer game? Hey, that's cool... it's certainly easier to handle than the news, isn't it?
The difference is, changing the real world requires hard work, and often seemingly pointless struggle that might end up costing you your life. Changing a computer game though? All it requires is a bit of time spent on test centre, or in game working on the common good, of just writing an informed report on the Bugs Forum, from your comfy chair with a cold coke nearby. And have you done that? Do you work with the Devs to get the bug fixed, instead of just venting to let off steam? If I click your user name, will I see any of your posts in the Bug Forum? How come
you didn't spot the potential bug in the differences between Hay types and producing chicken eggs if you're so committed to the game?
Because I did. You see, I'm more concerned with reality, and getting it fixed. I'm also actively engaged in real life politics for that matter too. And my own social life. It's just don't have time or energy to be personally enraged I can't use a bola ball in some way to prove my worth over someone else in a
computer game. A game which, as we are all so aware, is running now on a shoestring too. You know, I personally don't believe in
miracles; No Fairy Godcoder is going to come down and wave a magic wand and make an entire industry with decades of dodgy history perfect overnight, it's a real world with real people in it and not a whole lot of magic. Sorry to have to break it to you, but there we go...
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go buy some Hay to feed to some virtual chickens.
