This is a bug. Investigating.
36 minute response time, can't beat that
Not everything was up for testing in the focus group. Can't tell what was but no need to blame the testers, when you don't know how it did work in the focus group. Focus mean, you have focus on some parts of it, just like Test Center not got all of the stuff for testing at first patching.
What is the plan to deal with the bugged items entering the game?
My statement wasnt blaming testers... it was wondering what they did....
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There is no way to tell the new cards apart from the old ones as far as in-game coding goes. Deleting them is not gonna happen as it would also wipe out the originals.
I would imagine you might feel very differently if you had paid that "obscene" amount of gold for something that became worthless. Furthermore, just because something isn't important to you, does not make it any less relevant. Devaluing rares is and should be a concern of the dev team. A significant portion of UO's economy is revolved around them. Should they make decisions that hurt the game in favor of a few rares? Of course not. But really, can are REALLY hurt us? Even if they wanted to give out cards, they could easily use a slightly different graphic and accomplish the same thing.
The owners of these items should feel honored they had an 18 year head start on everyone else. I feel a small community taking in-game assets hostage and keeping the devs from using them in meaningful ways, or simply as house deco is wrong. I think more of the old items should be added in as quest rewards, boss drops, and other in game methods over time.
Oh, its happened to me in the past, more than once. I'm still in favor of art being released to the masses, not hoarded by a few just 'cuz.
You somewhat under cut your own argument with the first two sentences there.
I do the rares thing, I just acknowledge its not a valid reason to withhold art. Rares collecting not equivocal to a skillset/template.
Owning a server birth anything isn't "history." A Seer item would be history. An EM item would be history. An engraved wedding invitation/ring would be history. An item some random person swiped off the map due to shoddy coding =/= history. Nice try though.Yes, let's demand they make new art just to appease a tiny, tiny minority of players.
I'd agree with you, 10 years ago. However in todays game if i had to guess id say about 30% of players are involved in some sort of rares collecting. While i dont think its the end of the world if a few server births become common items (because theres tons of other things to collect now) at the same time it would be foolhardy for the devs to ignore what has become a very mainstream aspect of UOs modern playerbase.
Your simply wrong. You don't respect the rare collectors play style. Plain and simple. Whatever you say, it's simply not your thing so to you it isn't valid. Complete hogwash. Every point you make is nonsense from a perspective of a person that has no consideration for the vast number of players that collect. You want the cool stuff with no time or effort put into it.I do the rares thing, I just acknowledge its not a valid reason to withhold art. Rares collecting not equivocal to a skillset/template.
Yes, let's demand they make new art just to appease a tiny, tiny minority of players.
Again, hoarding art because a few collectors might get their knickers in a twist is bad decision making. Consider all the art we don't have access to because once upon a time they might have been a server birth and are now locked away collecting dust in someone's house.
We aren't talking about the UO equivalent of a Faberge egg, we're talking about playing cards and the like.
The crystal skulls weren't "rares" by any stretch of the imagination. Nor were the trade-in Doom rewards...less common than say a Blackthorn arty, sure...but definitely not "ZOMG rarez!" Simply because some people want them to be rare so they can charge a lot for them, doesn't actually make it so.
I'm not saying completely ignore the rares community, I'm just saying don't intentionally pander to it by withholding graphics simply because someone somewhere has it as a serverbirth. People seem to enjoy getting the cards, so what if few people's serverbirths a now worth less. Think of it like the stock market.
I don't like people with the I want everything for free for no effort mentality. I don't like people taking 18 years of UO history and flushing it down the toilet. I realize Broardsword has "new art issues". But they can make art when they put their mind to it. The recycled and now worthless skulls from last year looked good even though they were grossly over sized. I liked the "I've got mysterious hidden buyer guys", cute lol. Whatever... move along.I'm not saying completely ignore the rares community, I'm just saying don't intentionally pander to it by withholding graphics simply because someone somewhere has it as a serverbirth. People seem to enjoy getting the cards, so what if few people's serverbirths a now worth less. Think of it like the stock market.
Reading comprehension is a lost art. I have rares, lots of rares. Including all 3 of the cards (both hands and the deck, as I stated many posts above) I simply don't sell rares often, and tend to buy them anonymously or through trusted intermediaries.
I don't support the elitist, greedy, self important rares collectors that consistently lobby the devs to limit the access of the unwashed rabble. Nor the culture of me, me, me that's grown up around them.
So what would be your opinion on the new robe? the 15th anniversary robe was "designed to be rare" to commemorate 15 years of the game. the major draw of it was the graphic, which now cant be differentiated from the spawning one with same look. (yes i know they have different name, but it held most its draw because of the unique graphic)
