From the "Official" Forum regarding Shard Sheilds

[Ezekiel Zane]

What has contributed to UO's population decline;

1. Aged graphics
2. Refusal of majority of players to accept updated client
3. Maturing playerbase; college, career, family
4. Zero advertising
5. Steep learning curve
6. Complicated ingame systems
7. Veteran playerbase with billions and billions of gold
8. Cheating, scripters
9. Lack of Official Forums for many many years
0. $10-13/month for a 21 year old game.
1. Your grandpa plays UO
2. Your grandma plays UO

 

[MalagAste]

What has contributed to UO's population decline;

1. Aged graphics
2. Refusal of majority of players to accept updated client
3. Maturing playerbase; college, career, family
4. Zero advertising
5. Steep learning curve
6. Complicated ingame systems
7. Veteran playerbase with billions and billions of gold
8. Cheating, scripters
9. Lack of Official Forums for many many years
0. $10-13/month for a 21 year old game.
1. Your grandpa plays UO
2. Your grandma plays UO

3. Lack of support. Both on the website and in game...
4. No GM's when you page.... until LONG after it's too freaking late.
5. EA/Origin Store inability to be able to pay or buy things without hoops and hurdles.
6. DEVs who don't listen to the playerbase. Mock the playerbase... Fail to comprehend their own game...
7. Lack of DEVs... Game on basic life support.

I could go on...

 

[Lore]

I stalk this board but haven't played in a long time. I try to come back often and play. I fiddle around on endless journey when bored now... Shard shields are something I've complained about... Lowering the price on the store seems like the obvious and easy answer. Not sure why they haven't done it. $20 is obscene. I like a couple shards. If I could just play with the awesome people on Chesapeake and have the shopping on Atlantic, I'd pay an extra $5 a month for that.

Or!!! Maybe just have it as an extra sub cost to have a set of transfers every month.

 

[Pawain]

People can take soulstones from shard to shard. There are players who go from Chesapeake to Atlantic and back often.

I think some of the EJ restrictions need removed. A vocal guy on LS is having a lot of trouble with small things we tell him to do but he cant. He has been on daily for two weeks now. Using a BOD book is so over powered that EJ can not use them?

 

[Lore]

People can take soulstones from shard to shard. There are players who go from Chesapeake to Atlantic and back often.

I think some of the EJ restrictions need removed. A vocal guy on LS is having a lot of trouble with small things we tell him to do but he cant. He has been on daily for two weeks now. Using a BOD book is so over powered that EJ can not use them?

I don't want to rely on others. Sometimes I just want to play a game when I want to play a game. If everyone's solution is "Well others can do it for you." Why are you even arguing about just removing the middle person?

 

[Fridgster]

People can take soulstones from shard to shard. There are players who go from Chesapeake to Atlantic and back often.

I think some of the EJ restrictions need removed. A vocal guy on LS is having a lot of trouble with small things we tell him to do but he cant. He has been on daily for two weeks now. Using a BOD book is so over powered that EJ can not use them?

Actually I was one of the ones pushing for restrictions on BODs. The BOD book restriction is a very good thing. Think of this... a person ... lets say his name is hidgster has around 200 accounts. He makes 3 characters per account. That is now 600 characters collecting 1 bod every hour. That would be 6000 bods per 10 hours. Now let's say he had already had 6 characters on those accounts. now that is 12,000 bods every 10 hours. BOD prices have already plummeted with bribing. Making it easy for EJ accounts could really bottom them out.

 

[Pawain]

BODs are free and a time investment. He also got his mining up to 100 and spent an hour trying to mine dull copper for one of his BODs. We had to tell him he can only get the plain resources.

 

[Fridgster]

BODs are free and a time investment. He also got his mining up to 100 and spent an hour trying to mine dull copper for one of his BODs. We had to tell him he can only get the plain resources.

Yes for a person it is time investment. For a script that auto logs you in to multiple accounts and collects bods automatically it is not. I hate making things to get around scripters but bod values have been hit hard as of late (seriously I saw a val hammer selling for under 4 mil).

 

[Lord Arm]

Actually I was one of the ones pushing for restrictions on BODs. The BOD book restriction is a very good thing. Think of this... a person ... lets say his name is hidgster has around 200 accounts. He makes 3 characters per account. That is now 600 characters collecting 1 bod every hour. That would be 6000 bods per 10 hours. Now let's say he had already had 6 characters on those accounts. now that is 12,000 bods every 10 hours. BOD prices have already plummeted with bribing. Making it easy for EJ accounts could really bottom them out.

you are so right, and the devs keep making the same mistakes. we dont even need to go into the cheating going on. i call endless journey for what it is, endless cheating lol.

 

[Thoronnar]

I want a shard shield . Should be 5 year old accounts, 15 is too much.

 

[kaio]

So we are suppose to give up a GIFT that was given to us by EA for our support to prove to EA that we support EA. Now what is wrong with that logic. Do you really understand what you said.

Don't you wanna support the game like everyone else, on even terms ?

 

[Lord Frodo]

Don't you wanna support the game like everyone else, on even terms ?

LMAO I have supported this game for 20+years paying my sub every month. I could ask the same of you but we all know that you think the UO should be run like a socialist state. Do you give all your Gifts/Gold to the needy. When you have equally supported this game then you may equally enjoy the GIFTS EA has given us.

 

[Finley Grant]

Well well well

 

[Captn Norrington]

This thread has been cleaned up a bit, and 45 off topic mostly RMT related posts have been moved to this thread to prevent further derailment: RMT: The Good the Bad and the Ugly