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Ultima Online? Anyone?
Eeveelution
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Was just going back through some old disks of mine and games I played in past lives and stumbled across my Ultima Online Disks. Does anyone still play this game, is there a player base somewhere hidden in the confines of a sacred room somewhere still following the Virtues?
Please Let me know!
Please Let me know!
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There are some sweet player-run shards out there. I believe the runuo.com servers are the most popular if you're looking to jump back in.
I'm not sure how much revenue that would actually generate. I feel like few of the people on player run shards would actually be willing to pay a monthly fee for UO at this point, but I could be way off.
I mean, look at EQ. Its been around and still gets new expansions and new content and support from its devs despite being around and through hell and high water.
Good theory. Except both EQ and UO are total walking corpses and are not what the people playing the free shards have any interest in whatsoever. Most of the allure of the free shards is that they recreate what these games used to be. Not what they are now.
If there was a shard of EQ without expansions I would play it. Oh dear god I would train gnolls or sand giants on you all and laugh while doing it.
Good times.
Also, the only reason freeshards are popular is because they normally use older (non expansion or just t2a) rulesets so it gives more of the nostalgia/classic feel.
Corp Por! OMG its is burned into my being. I dont look back on UO very fondly as it was my introduction to internet douchaggery.
I remember I had saved up money from running skull caps for insane profits and bought myself a little mining shack in the mountains to level up my crafting skills but lo and behold some guy waited outside my house and waited till i came back encumbered by ore and killed me and took my only key to the house.
It was a lesson in that game that I never forgot but man did that suck bad.
Other things I remember was having the noteriety npc trapped in our castle that you fed every hour or so. Teleporting into our rivals city in the swamp and laying waste to them and robbing thier stores. And the wandering squads of douchbags corp por-ing newbs and others outside of cities etc.
I'd be running for my life and all I'd see was
Corp Por
Corp Por
Corp Por
Corp Por
Before the whole Age of Shadows ect. That was a fun way to drop someone.
I honestly think that when they tried to Force Ultima 3rd Dawn (3d) On everyone is when I took a shit. The graphics were sharp, but just laggy as hell.
(rant on)
eq hasnt had a major graphics update since luclin (2002?) eq cant expand the size of bags beyond 10 OR increase the number of inventory slots because they are hard coded and when they try to change it causes game instability, eq has been rescripting the same boss encounters with slightly different skins for the past 5 expansions, eq siphons off the money it gaines from subscribers micro transactions and cards and either pockets it or invests in other games.
(nerd rage has expired)
(rant off)