11th anvi items

[Maplestone]

Haven't we gotten to mid-December now?

We seem to be short a community coordinator to pass on the news. Hope she's OK.

*wonders if news will coincide with pub 57 going to production*

 

[Tina Small]

Are you speaking from KNOWLEDGE or is this a "Wild Guess"? My guess is that there aren't separate development teams both modifying the game code for the same game, because they could too easily change something that would break the other teams work, but I'll admit I don't know how this is working. I'm betting that EA Japan is simply a MARKETING arm selling the existing game in the Japanese market under license. They may be able to request modifications and may, as part of their license agreement, be guaranteed x number of development hours per year to work on their development requests but I really doubt they have their own dev team modifying code and publishing it back and forth between two teams.

Don't know if these three relatively old news items from Calvin Crowner, UO's Development Manager, shed more light on things or not:

February 5th - http://www.uoherald.com/news/news.php?newsid=306
April 11th - http://www.uoherald.com/news/news.php?newsid=347
May 14th - http://www.uoherald.com/news/news.php?newsid=365

 

[DHMagicMan_1]

There was another quote from Jeremy somewhere... she said that EA/Mythic would provide more purchase details (ie costs and such) as we got closer to December...

That didn't happen either.

Either tell us what you are going to do and when or tell us you have no clue... don't just leave us hanging in the wind.

 

[Hunters' Moon]

Wow, well, first, I think the explanation *has* been given, both by Jeremy and Kilandra.

EA Japan is releasing their own SKU with these items as part of a promotion, and once they've finished their initial run they'll be available here as well. Releasing codes online at the same time would completely conflict with their promotion, but we have made sure we'll have them too.

These items aren't replacements for Veteran Rewards, or anything else commemorating the 11th Anniversary of UO. We still have quite a bit of the 11th Anniversary year to celebrate

This statement here makes me feel like a "Cinderella" in the UO family.This seems to be a running theme when it comes to the american player base. When a Game/new content is released,the Japanese/Orientals are ALWAYS the ones that get it first. How about putting us american players 1st when it comes to a release for a change hmm?

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