You do not understand. Where did I say, that it is impossible?
This is an online forum. It stimulates discussion and debate which are good things. I dont see any fighting here or the mods having to step in. Just good healthy discussion and debate. Whats wrong with that?
Millions? Seriously? UO peaked at 250k subscribed accounts.
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Sure, I stand correct on the peak amount of players. So thousands of vets have fond memories and on Atlantic they seem to be popping in almost every day.Millions? Seriously? UO peaked at 250k subscribed accounts.
http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-2.png
Ultima Online Published Subscription Numbers | Shroud of the Avatar Forum
Besides, lots of people have/had multiple accounts.
I'd not even bet on it, that UO ever scratched the half a million mark counting all people, who had at least one account paid for at least one month in the last 19 years.
Another interesting read:
So Just How Many Players Are There in UO? | UOJournal.com
(the no-guild search doesn't work in the new myUO, I tried
The EC & KR UIs are identical. In terms of setting up macros & hotbars it's the exact same.KR WAS a step in the right direction and should have been continued, honestly it should be revived and replace the EC. And that god awful UI that I am too Stoopid to figure out
This promo picture looks way better than the client actually did, sadly. Of course they should have just kept working on it rather than trash it.You're right but it was 2.5D and called KR, that was a step in the right direction
Used to hurt my eyes but I adjusted my monitor and the refresh rates and it doesn't bother me anymore. I also turned a lot of the silly stuff off in the EC like particle effects and believe it or not I turned off footsteps... since it is totally NOT in sync...
Sure don't seem identical to me
Either way makes no difference they put a unfinished product out with KR that yes had a lot of problems and then did it again with EC.
In a straight line, running in the EC isn't any different. But when people are turning, the difference is EASY to notice. When I first saw EC turning in action after 7 years away, I thought it was speedhacking. It's supposed to be excellent for pvp, but I myself do not use it due to the ugliness.
Then may you die a thousand beautiful deaths. *smiles*
An irrelevant analogy. Each side of a twix is identical, the two clients certainly are not.
It took a long time for me to realize it and it couldn't be done while trying to use both. I couldn't get over the uneasiness of using the classic style bags in EC, but when I swapped to grid and actually explored everything in EC to customize it, I liked it a lot more. You have to really commit because UO and vets are forcing you to straddle both instead of fully going into one or the other. Both are good and I certainly don't want either shut off because frankly it's people that like CC that have kept this game alive while I take huge long breaks and barely maintain an account.
The thought is the same, pick one, play it, enjoy it. This is an argument that will never be won yet there are all kinds of threads on it.
Sure you shouldn't HAVE to mod it for it to be usable, but it is still something you have control over. And if you think the CC UI is so much better, just take a look at the VvV gump.
I can't, actually, at least not completely. As a nearly life-long Ultima fan (I began with Ultima III, fourteen years before UO), yes, you got me there; the creature models do bother me. For the first time in Ultima's storied history, a development team looked at all the franchise's bestiaries, then threw them on a fire and said, "Meh." Thus, the EC is filled with trolls that I'm guessing resemble [miniature] Scandinavian mythology (rather than Garriott's Sosarian trolls), dragons that suddenly became Eastern-mythologized with the release of the client (rather than Garriott's Western-mythologized, Sosarian dragons), Headless monsters with--wait for it--dismembered heads (Protip: Sosarian Headless monsters come into existence without heads), Ettins that have suddenly shrunk to become the height of humans, and the list goes on, and on, and on.
The thought isnt remotely the same. Lets just face it ... you picked a terrible analogy.
No. We can not.
Exactly! I have always wondered why they make yellow crotch rockets....
Visibility. Any other stupid questions?
Same reason they like to make really fast cars bright red... its like putting out a signal flare to the cops saying "Oh look at me!" Like the people that put glass packs on their truck and drive like a idiot... and wonder why the cops keep pulling them over and ticketing them.
Yeah okay, if that is what you have to tell yourself
I've had no problem killing EC users in the past. Until they start running and make Usain Bolt look like a sloth. At that point I give up.
I paid $700 for that Ninja 250 for my wife to learn to ride on. It can do 90+ on the highway with my fat ass on it, and still gets over 50MPG.
Actually I have owned 2 gray cars and 2 red ones over the last few years ... the gray cars got the tickets. I read somewhere that gray cars (all shades) are actually ticketed more as their drivers tend to think they are invisible or something and figure they can go fast.
We get it, we get it. You really crave attention. Let's get back on topic!
You must be new here.
Millions? Seriously? UO peaked at 250k subscribed accounts.
http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-2.png
Ultima Online Published Subscription Numbers | Shroud of the Avatar Forum
Besides, lots of people have/had multiple accounts.
I'd not even bet on it, that UO ever scratched the half a million mark counting all people, who had at least one account paid for at least one month in the last 19 years.
Another interesting read:
So Just How Many Players Are There in UO? | UOJournal.com
(the no-guild search doesn't work in the new myUO, I tried
Would have certainly been the thing to do. The CC UI has been a winner, different code making it work wouldn't have been any problem.
Free shards show it would have been possible. Also, don't forget that they managed to update the classic client with the content and features they had to update it with so far. And with time they could have vastly upgraded the fidelity of the engine and the assets. Right now Ultima Online still has great potential but is hampered by a lot of accessibility problems. It's really been unnecessary. No one understood the mmorpg market back then or its magic and EA never really did. The crazy bit is that after all those misfires a great vision and sufficient resources could revive Ultima Online. Minecraft is huge due to the potential of the sandbox (in the most general sense). Blizzard tapped into the themepark market. UO could sweep up semi-casuals, secondlife type of people, and lots of the deeper mmorpg market...with the right vision. Sacrificing nothing, only become better and richer.
I've never ran one, but I am told that some peeps (nameless) are using third party progs now that let them enlarge the screen with very few side effectsI talked to a GM today. I implored him to work on the 2D client. I also suggested that maybe, if they would do a huge upgrade to it, they could charge something for it. Didn't mention sums, but I'm thinking 10 bucks. So they can afford it. If they throw some serious cool stuff and some content in the mix...people won't be so pissed. And also, to petition the player base on this. However, something is in the works I was told! So.....how you like them apples?
He did say "No promises yet"... but still:
While a GM may know something is in the works, this is a true statement. I don't believe a dev would double-duty ad GM or vice versa. I was GM on an old MUCK and a dev on the same game. The two never mixed ... my dev was strictly OOC and disavowed all knowledge of GM Cobra (my GM side).
