What a disappointing article. No insights, no information, nothing tangible. It's reminiscent of my 3rd grade essays trying to hit x amount of words. Mmorpg.com has really slipped in quality.
As someone who grew up on UO... It's clear these devs learned nothing from the decades of feedback and lessons UO had available. They managed to recreate the worst parts of UO that were more oversights than intentional design.
People played UO …
UO was a living breathing world. You will see evidence of my characters existence a decade after deleting it. The world is changed by what you do and you exist in it. If every player was deleted an archaeologist could create a character and actually…
When private servers have a bigger population and significantly better design than your newly released game... It's probably safe to call it dead. I wish the devs all the best, but they literally learned no lessons from UO's 2 decades of feedback.
cheyane said:
No subtlety whatsoever in this obvious attempt. At least make some effort when they want to trick you this is so dumb. I guess they are convinced their player base is very stupid.
Bethesda knows the players dumb enough or d…
The last thing this already saturated genre needs are remakes.
An EQ remake? Why. The level based fantasy themepark market is covered. At the point you "remake" it in a way that would compete with the current market you are just creating EQ3.
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Game looks super interesting. I hope they bring on a marketing or business consultant though. Selling open world ganking in the trailer(when the game looks like it is way more) is a quick way to kill you game as you get a vocal minority asking for t…
I'm still salty they called this game a sandbox. "Hurr durr. We got UO camera and drop gear on death = sandbox."
It really makes me sad knowing how many gamers will have played these "sandbox" mmos and passed judgement on the genre without ever…
mcrippins said:
They also have a bunch of awesome community servers. If you're looking for a replica of UO, I highly recommend checking out Legends of Ultima community server.
To be real, if you want UO go play on Outlands. It's t…
Arterius said:
This game went from full pvp mmo to pve mmo and the back to full pvp MMO really quick. They need to figure out what game they are making really quick
They know what kind of game they "want" to be. They just don't kno…
Viper482 said:
Biggest scam in the history of PC gaming. How many tens of millions has this guy stolen so far?
In come the white knights....keep feeding him $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
It has to be a money laundering front.
Or windfury and mortal strike Draft Mode is really sick. You get 3 random spells from ALL classes every 2 levels and can pick one. So you end up with really cool and interesting builds.
Quaternium said:
But how do you handle high levels ganking low levels and taking their stuff?
You don't lose loot if someone way higher level ganks you. I think 4 level difference maybe? So level 60s can't ruin a new person's day beyond…
bcbully said:
Any in game reason to kill besides points?
Well, you can become an Outlaw and kill your own faction. Players drop some of their loot and gear when you kill them in High-Risk mode. But world mobs also drop "Bloody" versions …
UO was dying and losing subs before Tram was released (even though people claim tram killed the game).
I love that style of play, but it wasn't sustainable to a growing population then, it certainly isn't now either.
The appeal of this gam…
Imagine the implications of that from a business sense.
It would be like McDonalds saying, "Hey, you already ate here for breakfast! You can't come here more than once a day."
BurgerKing would be like, "Lol, here's a discount, come all you want."…