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I doubt Rob is that poor of a negotiator to allow EA to eat all the UO store profits. If so, they wouldn't be putting items in there. It's likely a percentage to each party. I also doubt they'd ever publicly disclose the revenue details.
UO never has sales on the sovereigns or other things in the store. Makes me wonder who runs it. If buying things from the store would get UO more employees, I feel many of us would buy things like this. Someone ask Fenneko.
You could ask, but she probably doesn't know, and if she did, she wouldn't be allowed to tell you. EA are very, very, very fond of NDAs
Wasn't it you that was saying, not so long ago, that UO shouldn't be a "pay to win" style game?
I said mesanne claimed it never would be then created content that needed the luck potions
Lots of opportunities to increase UO Store revenue without turning UO into a pay to win game. After Messena's poor attempt at the store by implementing several pay to win items, I think she got a little behind hurt over the backlash and then just ignored the store. Hopefully that changes now. There have been quite a few games now that have implemented a successful store without destroying the game they could take inspiration from. Heck, some of these games generate ten times the amount of rev with an equal number of players than the traditional subscription based service and they have a thriving player base that isn't pay to win.
It's pretty much like that already with the vast majority of castles or keeps being sat on by scripters who don't even allow you the chance to place one yourself. The only difference is that the money being exchanged isn't going to the devs, its going to asshats who actively make the game worse. If I could pay like $40 to have a castle worth of storage and space in an instance, I gladly would. Castles on the mainland would still be worth a fair bit for the prestige of having a vastly more public and limited location. As things presently stand, the housing issue rewards scripters outright and shafts any legitimate player from even having the opportunity unless they're willing to pay scripters prices, or get extremely lucky by watching every chat channel possible 24/7.
While this 100% an Atlantic issue it is 1000% true IF the team wanted RMT shut down they would sell everything the third party sellers do in the store cheaper. And raffle off every Atlantic plot from idoc
Paying to have houses in certain locations or other such items shouldn't be in the store. Deco is obviously a good choice. I'd say that there should be some packages that include increases in storage space, etc. They've done that in the past with some of their smaller expansion packages. Lots of quality of life things they could add that people would want, but also wouldn't break gameplay.
You mean like Malas? Or the people who are paying real money for castles and keeps to third party websites?
How is paying directly for said nightmare different than paying for potions?
You don't have to pay for potions, you can get drops without them.
I meant totems but point is same sell me my nightmare sell to you totems is all the same
I used one and died from boredom. Was revived to find I didn't even get a void.
It's a win win players who just want to have a nightmare get one players who want to earn one can and most importantly the game makes money
Yep, I don’t have time to grind these days. I’d rather spend my game time doing the stuff I find fun instead. Now what I do have is disposable income. I get what I want, UO gets a micro transaction and nobody was forced to “pay to win“. Seems like a good system to me that should be expanded.
You do realize that the RMTers also are selling sovereigns (ie UO Store money) in the game as well right? There are a few players that you can contact and they will sell you any item you want from the UO store and as many as you want for a price. I've talked to a few and they were willing to take in game gold or Venmo for "the order".
I dont think "thriving" is the word you are looking for. I think "getting by" might be a better phrase.
Same.
Kryonix has always been an innovative dev, focused on player events, and he is now at the helm. Shards regularly have live content, and they're continuing to add regular content that doesn't cost anything more than the monthly/six month subscription. There were events from Thanksgiving through New Year's and they actually have a community presence now on social media, the best they had in the last two decades if not ever (since social media when the game started was moreso mIRC, ICQ, lol...AIM...by volume, may be the best ever right now). If they were "getting by," you would start to see some sweeping changes, that, or a completely free-to-play model. If we ever got the numbers on how much they made off of the Nightmare event I bet it would surprise some people.
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Kryonix has always been an innovative dev, focused on player events, and he is now at the helm. Shards regularly have live content, and they're continuing to add regular content that doesn't cost anything more than the monthly/six month subscription. There were events from Thanksgiving through New Year's and they actually have a community presence now on social media, the best they had in the last two decades if not ever (since social media when the game started was moreso mIRC, ICQ, lol...AIM...by volume, may be the best ever right now). If they were "getting by," you would start to see some sweeping changes, that, or a completely free-to-play model. If we ever got the numbers on how much they made off of the Nightmare event I bet it would surprise some people.
Anyway, your thought is kind of the way things go, can't please everyone with a game state, haha. The funny thing is I bet if you suddenly added another 100,000 people to UO the game servers wouldn't be able to handle it
I guess I would ask what you envision "success" should be for UO?
Do we want UO to be like WoW, though? I certainly do not want it to be like WoW, personally. I think the grass is always greener on the other side...
Kind of sounds like how you feel about UO.
We are definitely moving in the right direction but as another poster said I've more money than time I still see no harm in me spending xx dollars to buy a two slot purple mare than you spending xx dollars on totems. we both get what we want in a way that makes us happy and ultimately the game profits.
Would be ok with the store allowing me to become a legendary fisherman with a super slayer harpoon gun for some sovereigns while it's taken you X amount of time to build your fisherman?
Absolutely
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My main thing is like, "yes, the UO devs could do more in terms of artwork." It's been a complaint the community has had for over 20 years!! LOL...so I don't know, at that point, it may very well just be an "it is what it is" situation.
Most of my characters reached their full limit back when Power Hour was a thing, and I was not pleased with the introduction of the Advanced Character Token, and its current-day replacement the Mythic token (I think I still have an ACT, but not sure, but I have plans for it if I do).
Why should new players or returning vets who lost account suffer training taming or any skills just because we did back in 99 or 2000 I get if you want to but it's really only high end content that's worth doing and you need a decent character
I can agree with that - there's no way to differentiate between a true newbie and somebody who is coming back.
They have changed despise and blackthorns both places we used to train. What content would you recommend for a underdeveloped character that would prepare them for the end game things roof, underwater boss, event arcs,much less pvp?
PVP...not going to touch, because even I'm not even interested in what's required to be competitive against the scripters/etc. I did it years ago (factions), but that part has changed so much that I don't see a point now, when I have so much other content to churn through.