But then that's only half of the story. I don't bother not getting a drop (free millions). What bothers me is that they burn those ressources (paid EMs) to produce something that's available 0,006% of the time (1 hour ouf of 7 days). They should rather spent the time in deploying say 2 week long global events, with random bosses spawned in each say 6 or 12 or 24 hours. Accessible 100% of the time to each player. To fair for Mesanna I guess.
With the now available money they finally put up some hours to design periodic global event content, accessible to every player regardless of timezone, family or work duties. Everybody is happy except "like 12 people".
Here's another thought; what if a trade limit were added?
Sounds like not many folks would object, then?
Almost all event items are deco only and the reason they maintain their value is because there are only a few that drop so collectors want them. The big ticket items right now are armor/jewelry items that serve a different purpose that some, not all, players want so they can have the biggest/baddest suit going.
EM staff are hired as independent contractors for like twenty hours per month at minimum wage or something like that. For all intents and purposes they're volunteers, and the conditions of their employment are basically the bare legal minimum required to prevent a repeat of that ancient history counselor lawsuit. You could fire every last one and probably not save enough money for even a single full-time software developer's pay and benefits.
If there is no system in place, it would take developer to develop a new system. However, with Treassures of Doom or the Minax Invasion there are systems in place that are even more complex than those EM events (wait 45 mins, slay boss), so I doubt they had to reivent it from scratch. After that, I really dont see where a full-time job would be needed for it. They would just replace lore + monsters and maybe disable or add some dynamics randomly to spice it up.
Well roared, lion!
A statement made by someone who clearly does not know a thing of what they talk about.
Yeah dude any part-timer can develop new content for UO overnight at the drop of a hat, it's just that easy and the only reason content has taken as long as it has up until now is because everyone was stupid and waiting for you to point it out. Hur hur.
This is my concern as well. I took a 'break' from UO for two odd years, came back and suddenly the game is jam packed with more 'rares' than you can shake a stick at. I enjoy/ed the rares market, though at this point I can honestly say I can take or leave them, however, (which surprised even me, having been a collector myself). I can see a potential for them becoming obsolete. Over saturation. No offense intended for anyone who collects, because I definitely understand that. Aren't the collectors concerned at all?
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Point taken. With this in mind, wouldn't rares that eventually decay, or become untradable, help to keep rare items rare? For myself, I could see acquiring an item for a decorating project...keeping it for a decent amount of time, and then eventually redecorating or replacing it (with, say, a new item or project). I understand the attachment that can come with items as well, so I actually might rather prefer a 'trade' item limit which becomes ultimately tied to an account, or a property. Ultimately.
Agreed, prices of event drop are becoming ridiculous... Thats the best way of dropping them price straight down
Maybe calling them rares is a misnomer, but I don't believe UO rares will become simply "meh" in the near future. They are collectibles, and humans do sort of like to collect things. Examples:
this has nothing to do with the number of events. its because the devs changed the system to exactly what casual players asked for. believe me, rares collectors DID NOT ask for this change.This is my concern as well. I took a 'break' from UO for two odd years, came back and suddenly the game is jam packed with more 'rares' than you can shake a stick at. I enjoy/ed the rares market, though at this point I can honestly say I can take or leave them, however, (which surprised even me, having been a collector myself). I can see a potential for them becoming obsolete. Over saturation. No offense intended for anyone who collects, because I definitely understand that. Aren't the collectors concerned at all?
Cheers!
(And thank you folks, for being civil!
the average price of an event item is actually about 60percent lower than they were 3 years ago. take into account inflation, and they are about 80% lower than they were 3 years ago. so you can buy 5 items now for the price of what 1 item was. they are definitely NOT at all higher. much much lower in fact and more available to the casual player.
I hope they keep going down then... Its 0 effort and rewarding. Most people just attend the last couple minutes wod, cast colossus invis and get drops...
i totally agree. Again, its what the masses asked for and what the devs have decided to do with not just event items, but also the majority of the game. so i dont really see your point. yes, i preferred when EM events were extremely challenging but accept the fact that the game is more casual now.
we havent had a pvp event with a reward for years now (since EMs are no longer allowed to hand items to players directly)
So they must make more fel pvp events. Maybe its time for the broadsword team to start looking at UO's history when tram never existed, but also have a look at the most rated games on the planet on www.twitch.com and i hope they will come to realize that PVP is the top attraction for players and maybe stop turning UO into a pokemon game
Aww, you're so much deeper and more authentic and a better person than all those pixel-hoarders. Screw those crowds of people who show up to EM events looking to score an item, make some money, and keep the economy turning. The developers should just cater to you and the four or five other people on Stratics who make this their personal hobbyhorse. After all, you're so much more enlightened than the rest of us.
Hard pass. No participation trophies, please. This isn't youth tee-ball or Pop Warner football. None of this 'everyone gets trophy because we're all special little flowers' mentality is needed in a game where the average player is aged 30+.
Oddly enough, the reason I posted the 'stupid idea' was to actually save event items.
They're participation based events in a video game, not major league sporting events. Rewards active players to give everyone the little trinket, not just the EM's favorite players or the one who lucked out and got looting rights
so your saying UO isnt worthy of professional E-sport gaming?
Maybe once every couple of months they should have a clicky or something everyone can get... especially when introducing a new story line or running some type of global event - but certainly not every after event. We are not little children who need our egos filled with constant reward at every instance of participation. I personally feel the complaints of "EMs play favorites" or "so-and-so always get an item because they multi-box & script!" we often hear on Stratics generally fall on deaf ears.
So what you're saying is you're one of the "haves" and dislike my change to make the "have nots" not be left in the dust because then you wouldn't be as special.
There has literally never been any boss anywhere in the game that ever worked this way.
This does make a lot of sense. Games like Neverwinter/WOW etc have global events very often. I don't see a reason why the EMs couldn't create GLOBAL events and roll them out across ALL shards - with a whole bunch of EMs [how many is it now?] Each one could design one global event per month giving UO players LOADS of new content all the time [one per week even?]
Here is the problem with global events:
Really? So what about PVP, Guilds, Housing (not just deco) and that's just to name a few. There's too much depth to this game to say it's just about the pixels, sure it's a big part but the game would have ended a long time ago if it was just about that
I think this would be a bad idea, everything seems fine the way it is right now. Adding more gold sinks and getting rid of cheaters/dupers with all their gold is the best way to fix the economy at this point
my point was that theres much better games for challenging pvm. UO used to hold a niche market with pvp but in recent years its also not unique in that market.
OR maybe i've tried the other games and came back like 3 times now! Something makes me come back and it's not just the pixels, it's the depth and the memories that make this game so unique and why people keep playing it. Is there better games graphically for PVM, sure there is... but they don't have the same feel as this game does and I have yet to find another game that has better housing than UO
i agree i play for the nostalgia / retro gaming feel as well (which is why i would never play EC) but for pvm i wasnt referring to graphics. i was refering to in depth, complicated boss encounters that require teamwork or precise combat. UO doesnt have anything close to this, you can solo just about everything, or do in a very small group but requires no coordination / teamwork.
