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It's hypothetical Garth, as stated in the title of the thread.
That happend to me in 2003 besides the account age. Loged in after shard up and my house that was blocking a castle spot was gone and a castle was there. The guy who placed it kept telling me he would get it. He owned the other spots. Blocking the placement. I lost alot of Rares and Seer items. After a week dealing with customer service I just closed the accounts and it toke me almost 6 years to come back.
I was going to make a "go to the forums to whine about it and tell everyone you are going to quit but then don't actually quit" option, but since 90% of people would pick that one, I just went with the binary options.
Why are you yelling at me?
Depends on how grindy they make it honestly. They make it grindy af like they do on almost everything they do a lot of us will sideline that content.
That is like you going to SP and you are doing it willingly but to lose everything including your account age, that is something that can only be done at EAs or BSs level of access to your account.
You are old ,deaf, and half blind. You have a home on Lake Superior. Come brother. We understand.
The only reason I included returning account age to 0 months in my little hypothetical scenario is because I imagined people thinking they could just wait less than a year to acquire some vet reward to sell for whatever the expensive ones sell for these days. I get what you are saying but it's really not the point. The point of the post is simply to satisfy my curiosity as to what percentage of the population actually enjoys playing the game vs how many mainly just keep their accounts open because they are "married" to their pixel junk. Had I just asked players if they are married to their UO junk, the results would be even more skewed than I already believe them to be. Leave it to the UO community to go off searching for reasons for impossible hypothetical situations to occur rather than simply reflect on why they answered the question the way that they did.
As I already have explained, however, it's about more than just "pixel junk" (your term) -- it's about being able to make a contribution to the in-game world at a certain level, and/or having a status in the in-game world at a certain level, and/or having a physical record of what our characters have done or accomplished, and/or records or momentos of a character's relationships with other characters and players, etc.
I am not so dense that I don't understand people's relationships with their pixel junk. My intentions are only to satisfy my curiosity as to how many are so invested in their pixel junk that they would no longer want to play if it was gone. Though I believe the data has been skewed, I feel like I now have a better understanding. Also, you have given me a new idea for an evil scheme to relieve others of their pixel junk and bring them one step closer to freedom. I will make sure to credit you in the resulting post if it ever comes to fruition. You're one of the few people I actually like, and now I like you just a little bit more.
I love playing UO and I have 23 years of memories stored in my Tram castle and you are asking me that if EA/BS/UO wiped my entire account including my account age if I would still support that company. IMHO that would be a very cold hearted act on the part of EA/BS/UO that I could no longer support and anybody that says that they could support a company after that really needs to look inside themselves and ask just how cold hearted they are themselves when they support such a cold hearted act by another. There are a lot of things I will not support others doing so I do not do those type of things myself. I myself can already see the hypocrisy in your hypothetical question, are you in fact trying to justify your play style as a murder and a thief. It is ok for EA/BS/UO to steal everything I have worked years to get so it must be ok for me to do the same.
I assure you that I have already come to terms with the things I do. I need no further justification.
If you would like me to clean your house, it is one of the services that I offer.
Steal your stuff then quit
Well there is nothing Hypothetical about that now is there.....
The technique of griefing other players by feigning friendship and alliance then stealing their stuff, killing them, or otherwise impinging upon their gameplay, and thus weakening their ties to the game and blaming them for it, is not new. There was a whole Internet site, called "Felucca's Revenge," based on it. The site was promoted by UO Powergamers as I recall. Former Stratics mod Scoundrel Rico spoke openly about doing it. A Fel guild on LS, I forget which one, bragged of having spies in every other guild on the shard that they used for the purpose. At around the same time, another Fel guild on LS, again I forget which one, kept an open journal on Stratics about how they were going to destroy an unnamed Trammel guild in such a manner. The technique, its supporting ideas, and the refusal to take serious action against either, are all as sad as they are perennial.I am not so dense that I don't understand people's relationships with their pixel junk. My intentions are only to satisfy my curiosity as to how many are so invested in their pixel junk that they would no longer want to play if it was gone. Though I believe the data has been skewed, I feel like I now have a better understanding. Also, you have given me a new idea for an evil scheme to relieve others of their pixel junk and bring them one step closer to freedom. I will make sure to credit you in the resulting post if it ever comes to fruition. You're one of the few people I actually like, and now I like you just a little bit more.
What's your point? I've been doing that forever. A player's ties to the game are no concern of mine. It's not my job as a player to care how players feel about a game. You're right that it's nothing new to do that, but I never mentioned doing that in any of my posts in this thread.
