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Sometimes I wonder who is further away from the actual game; me or them. Not like every worthwhile encounter needs you to party up to actually get into it "in the first place" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If its less than $160 per year advanced I think a lot of people are going to be pretty ticked off and rightfully so.
When I think of buying back time, I think of my situation.
Old discussion, we all know. I rather think nobody is going to take something away from anybody, so no reason to get ticked off. But I know old vets hate to loose their status quo and don't want new players on an leveled playing field. They unfortunately totally forget they got to play the game for their money and didn't only pay for the vet reward program.
People would really pay $600 +/- a few hundred, just to be eligible for certain vet rewards?
No but the vet rewards are based on time played/active account status. It is earned. Just because someone has something you dont have doesnt mean you should get it to. Certainly not at a reduced cost (of time and money.)
Yea, and that shouldn't be taken for granted, but do you really need a 20 year vet reward gap? It shouldn't be the same cost and it shouldn't be up to a current year.
I'll agree to this. My main account was created in 2003, and I had the option for 5th year picks not too long ago. Had I played the entire 14 years, I would get shard shields next month. I'm not sure how much it would cost, but I wouldn't mind paying whatever to accelerate my account to the age it should actually be.
You really dont think they are going to allow someone to spend a fraction of a price to upgrade their accounts for free shard transfer tokens and screw themselves out of money do you? And yes it is fair. Should have kept your accounts active like some of us did.
Sounds like someone's defending something....
Re-read, had 12 different accounts the whole time, at different times. I've probably played / have played more than you.... Half the people with "vet" accounts bought them illegally anyway... or don't you remember?
And shard shields wouldn't be that big of an issue if the vets who originally got shields didn't transfer everything of worth off all the shards and bring to Atlantic. Forcing the nonvet accounts to have to buy tokens to bring items back to their original shard.
Aye exactly... we specifically want to buy items on Atlantic and take them back to Pacific. :***( Everybody buys everything cheap on Pacific and takes it to Atl. to sell. I think more "good" players (like good vs evil kind of) with vet accounts / shards shields will fix this. Most of the players with a million shard shields bought accounts illegally... which has led to a huge abundance of the worst types of players having them.
I must be a backwards person. I do the exact oposite as do a few others that i know. I can play on a quiet shard and transfer goods from atlantic as i need them. If anything it has prevented me from having to play on Atlantic.
Or worse they'll feel entitled simply because someone else has them
But back to shard shields. I am quite sure, the so called bad guys will still have a lot of accounts which are able to travel and nothing will change about the transfering good stuff off your server.
Poser vet status? Really?
Not necessarily. I think I paid for 6-7 years without playing. I didn't even pick up anniversary or Christmas gifts. I'm sure I'm not alone; I had considered idling my accounts, but I would have had to bank or sell a bunch of stuff and I was just too lazy, just easier to pay for another year.
Oh I agree with you, buying an existing account to get the shields is unfair - just as unfair as buying a 10 yr old account and paying the proposed "shield tax" to get shields. Poor choice of words as it did lump people who for some reason had to take years worth of breaks and want their shields. My apologies for that.
Let's be honest, without the creation of trammel UO wouldn't of lasted another 5 years.
Ruined seems like a pretty big overreaction. Game isn't solely based on selling goods. There is that exploring and adventuring thing that is popular.
Yes the devs have made some unpopular decisions and there have been quite a few unfixed bugs, however to they are not making an effort is ignorant. You have no idea what they have to work with nor do you know anything about their inner workings.
You seem to be confusing "Account Age" with "Game Time", I don't think the devs would make that mistake... (or would they?)
In my opinion another thing that makes new or returning players not want to play is having to shell out all the money for all of the expansions.
Definitely not second guessing that decision.. just amazed that folks can seemingly turn any UO topic to that...
.. kinda confuses me.
Overpowered in a economic sense. They make it super cheap to bounce things from small pop shards to atl without dropping the $20 bucks one way. The casual player that does not have the acct age is basically left out of the global economy and sells cheap since it is not worth dropping $40 for a round trip ticket to atlantic and back home, or find someone that has shields and will make the bounce for them. The shields give the 14+ year vets a huge amount of economic power if they choose to use it.Shard Shield overpowered?
