6 reasons why 'Minecraft' is so incredibly popular
so short and gets it all right. Minecraft has a lot in common with UO, especially the old school UO. Example, you die, you lose your inventory only you get much more freedom and creativity. You can script, you can make working computers, build anything you can imagine.Yeah, no one is anonymous online, anyone can find exactly who you are, where you live, your relatives, your school, anything. Anything.
this is exactly why i think EA should release a pared down console version of the game. give new players the basics of the game but not the whole overly complicated version. i think this exposure could bring in new subs.
the people that i know who played UO in years past have no desire to return. some now have different priorities. some hate the item based pvp.
So basically make a completely different seperate game is what you are asking for. It's just not a realistic request.
I honestly don't know that a port would even be technically possible. Even if so, playing this game with a controller? It would be completely non-functional.
not un-realistic to be done, but as i didnt play the game i have no idea why it wasnt continued. i remember it being popular for a time but never played it and dont know the finances behind it. if i had to guess its cancellation most likely had to do with Mythic being dissolved.
In terms of making a game to essentially advertise UO, it's light years from being realistic. For them to come up with a completely different game using the Ultima brand? Not at all unrealistic.
Can I import my UO character to the single player version??
I used to have an alt that I RPed pretty strictly, and that had nothing to do with my other character in any way. So everyone assumed when I started the character that I was new to Siege, and pretty much everyone was falling over themselves to offer me a hand when I showed in in chat. Though I politely declined, people were making every effort to be helpful to what they assumed was a new player. Siege is pretty much always like that, everyone is psyched to see a new face, even the reds offer helpful advice in Gchat sometimes.
That shard idea sounds more appealing to me than a regular prodo shard heh.
A F2P option just should not be nearly that limited, that's almost like a bait and switch. Some poor ******* tries that out, thinks he's figured the game out and then gets blindsided after coughing up cash and finding out basically nothing he's done or learned so far is worth a damn.
Translation This game is way to complicated it makes my brain hurt just to think about it. I can't admit that I can't handle it so I will just trash the graphics.
No - they legit don't like the graphics. And neither do I - in either EC or CC. I find it hard to believe anyone plays this game for the graphics. Anytime someone uses words like 'nostalgia' to describe their affinity for UO graphics I roll my eyes.
Most posts are subjective unless they relate game mechanics as-is without editorializing. Also, "positivity" itself rather subjective.
No. The game needs an NPE that stands on its own and gives a new player the basics of the game in a coherent manner. Expecting paying customers to hand hold newbies isn't going to fly. Having tried it several times, its nearly impossible to do effectively when both people have lives outside the game. (End-game type player-to-player instruction is a reasonable expectation.)
Well, you would imagine the game should be able to handle play introduction to a new player without a mentor being required.
yep....it is what happens when devs stop caring!!!
I don't think new players join the game and immediately run into 'corruption, duping and favoritism'. But they do run into cynicism like this, and that probably does just as much harm as the items you listed.
I would love to see something like this in game. I know I'd be willing to go and lend a hand.
I agree it would be pretty neat. Though might attract the "wrong" sort too who would exploit and such though there really is NOTHING a new player has anymore that's worth anything at all.
Yeah, there really wouldn't be much sense in trying to take advantage of a new player. In fact, it would be counter-productive.
Ya think? I think that all the time when folk start picking on the current playerbase. Don't we have few enough folk playing anymore? Do we really have to go out of our way to make someone feel unwanted and hurt? Especially when they really don't deserve it.
I agree, which is why I said I would like to help new players.
So, I do
Sometimes a helping hand can go a very long way, after coming back for the 100th + time the guild I was in only helped me gear wise but I have such a better understanding of how things work in the game, it's been like a verbal UO Guide in TeamSpeak
