Apparently it should contain some teasers as to what their plans are for the 15th Birthday of UO and their plans for the rest of the year!
"Teasers" don't cut it anymore. Vagueness is a serious problem with UO. I said this in the other thread: I get more specifics about upcoming plans for games that I'm no longer subscribed to than I get from UO, a game that I'm spending over $350 a year on.
In the past two months, I've heard more about plans for Star Wars than I've heard about UO in the past year.
Plus I'm concerned that we are about to hear the same thing we heard in January of 2011: The team has big plans, but they are vague, and big plans from the previous year they were working on have been delayed.
That literally just happened a few days ago - the high resolution graphics upgrade has been delayed in favor of live events. Very reminiscent of last year when things from 2010 were delayed.
Live events help keep current players. The high resolution graphics would help bring in new and returning players. Favoring current players over new players is not a good strategy at this point in UO's life.
Guess I'm feeling sort of sad after all the IDOC's fell seeing just how many are gone and not returning... and almost sadder yet knowing that there are probably at least that many RTB homes sitting there waiting to fall that will never go IDOC because EA can't figure out how to find them.
Even though I'm on a medium population shard, there weren't nearly as many houses falling as I thought there would be.
I would be willing to bet that the IDOCs we saw fall were offset by people coming back or new players. Looking at when I came back last year, and looking at things now, a year later, there are about the same number of 18x18 and tower spots that are empty.
If I started seeing a lot more 18x18/tower spots become available, I'd be worried, but it feels like it's about the same as last year. You can find them if you look, but you aren't necessarily tripping over them.