If UO Shuts down what can they do for us?

[Jeremy]

I worked on AA (after launch, but before they decided to shut it down) so it's the first thing that springs to mind. EA Land was also sort of a strange beast because they'd changed to an item shop model right before.

 

[sapphirediablo11]

So it doesn't look like people who've been dedicated for long time, will be getting much other than a time refund for their time : ( quite sad,,, i hope still taht they let a transfer to antoher one of their games if it does happen to fail, lord forbid, but if... :O

 

[Ender]

Absolutely nothing as far as I know.

 

[T_Amon_from_work]

Never heard of Empiriana, but I've always thought the best way for UO to come to grips with the enormous emulation presence is to embrace it. Think of it, with all the money spent on the really good Emulation Servers Hardware, coupled with how stable and dependable the emulation software is, I mean some of it seems to run more efficient on the user end than EA's how well do you think they would do coding and working on the actual code EA uses?

Don't know if you remember Sierra Online's attempt at gaming - INN. I forget exactly what INN stood for but they had Twinion and Yserbius that "made it" (ala Diablo you had to be a certain level to go online) and The Realm which lasted a shorter life than Meridian 59. I beta'd The Realm as my first OL gaming experience ... true chracter death then.

Ennyhoo, when INN and that part of Sierra Online went the way of T-Rex, some of the staffers let go formed a company called Irealms and developed Empiriana. I learned of Emp in '92 or so. Played it until UO hit me between the eyes ... pay-to-play then.

Left there for UO and returned there with my old Half-Elven Scout in about 2003. About January this year, Emp went silent ... couldn't log in and what I've been able to learn is it was unexpected and server-related. Somewhere around 200 dungeons on 16 or 17 levels ... each more difficult than the last and all involving puzzles to solve. Mind-bending is a good term to use.

I played a UO PRS years ago and while it ran it was fun. Disagreements on DM/EM handling eventually led to the demise, but it was fun. This was all pre-Tram. Haven't been back to one since.

 

[Lord Kynd]

For a relatively recent example, do some searching on Auto Assault. It shouldn't be too hard to find the details of that shutdown (may it rest in peace.)

I have never had so much as a whisper of a conversation on this topic at Mythic, though.

good to know

don't find anything about that game closing

fix macro/norton issue please !!!

 

[Sid Vacuous]

If UO does shut down there's always freebie shards.

 

[Warrior of Time]

I'm just going to play the game till it happens. Then just say I played it from start to finish.

 

[Petrify]

The best gift they could give us is buying Darkfall or funding the company making it.

 

[Ancient Sosarian]

Should the CURSED day ever arrive when our beloved Sosaria must meet its end, there is only one fitting ending. Lord British is successfully summoned from the Void. Lord Blackthorn is freed from his prison within my Castle.

These two friends (closer than brothers yet often opposite of methods) summon the citizens together for the Casting of the Spell to reunite the pieces of the Gem of Immortality (foretold eons ago).

The spell goes horribly wrong (as spells of such power often do) and our beloved Sosaria is destroyed along with all of her remaining citizens.

On this day my soul will travel to its next plane of existence...with a sigh and a tear upon my cheek.

An Sos

 

[Radun]

If UO Shuts down what can they do for us?

nothing... they don't have to refund your pre-paid time, either.

 

[Masuri]

Lets say UO would shut down what could they do for us?

1.Trade-in value Account wise months paided into UO- An option to allow us to transfer our account to another game .
2. Vet rewards to be transfered to game of choice same as above.
3.Have NPC's buy back program installed for 1 month before closing to allow players to sell their goods for Gold Tokens to be transfered to game of choice same as above.
4.Players who bought 7th Char slots and bank upgrades would be trransfered into something for game of choice.
5.EA would give each player a gift to be used in another game( I played UO until it die, EA pked my account so on
6. Account time remaining to be transfered to another account. players who paided 6 months shouldn't have to pay for another EA Online game.

Seriously, what dream world do you live in?

QFE. We'll be lucky if they even refund pre-paid time. Some companies don't.

What I find interesting is how many people took his question seriously, and either said 'nothing, you fool' or came up with ideas. Some said they hoped UO wouldn't close, but a much smaller number of people than usual jumped up and preached the old standard 'UO will never close, they've been predicting doom for 11 years, but UO is eternal!' That says more about the state of the game than anything: even the naive optimists are becoming realists.

 

[Nestorius]

If UO shuts down, I hope they still let us keep our stuff.

 

[Harb]

If UO shuts down, I hope they still let us keep our stuff.

I'm not laughing/ smiling enough these days. Thanks for this post