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Ehud posted:It really is one of the worst games I’ve ever tried. It really is impressive on that front, yeah. For a game that's got a several-tens-of-millions USD budget, it's breathtakingly bad. Hopefully, when someone comes round to do the tell-all expose on Star Citizen's dramatic failure, they'll spare a chapter for this one. I wonder where the money went? Like, for real - where did it go? Not art assets, not sound, not animations. Not network coding, not security, not bug fixing. Not gameplay design. Not marketing. I mean, with Star Citizen, we know the money is going right to Chris Robberts and his creepy pornwife's "movie script", along with a whole lot of development. Mind you, the development isn't getting anywhere because what he's trying to do is stupid, but there's a lot of code being written. What about this game?
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Thursday Next posted:It really is impressive on that front, yeah.
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TheAgent posted:Garriott's pulling down at least $750k a year from this. 
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Thursday Next posted:It really is impressive on that front, yeah. Wait so is Star Citizen officially dead or are there still people clinging to it? That was always doomed to failure, but I'm genuinely sad that the new Ultima sucks and I was always holding out hope. (I did not put down any money, however.)
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Verbose posted:Wait so is Star Citizen officially dead or are there still people clinging to it? It depends on your definition of "dead" (insert Princess Bride quote here) but I think that nowadays, 99% of people acknowledge that Star Citizen will never see release. And, yeah, I'm kinda sad that Shroud of the Avatar is a flop which will probably kill Lord British's career. He really did put out some groundbreaking stuff back in the 80's and 90's. (of course, you can say the same about Chris Roberts...)
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i'm sad richard garriott's career limped on long enough to make shroud of the avata
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Ultima VIII is really the Cassandra game of all this
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I'm not really saying anything that someone else hasn't already said, but I hopped on for the free trial and had to share my thoughts. It's not just that the game looks cutting edge for 2006, it's that the game is completely bereft of any kind of charm that might allow one to overlook the severely limited graphics and gameplay.
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Can you bake bread? Can you bake bread in this game?
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Lonjon posted:Can you bake bread? Can you bake bread in this game? no, we play games to crush
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Stefan Prodan posted:no, we play games to crush Nobody plays games to bake bread. Double hally hit.
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You mean you never became a chef in UO? Jesus, live a little.
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I forgot I kickstarted this game 5 years ago and am just downloading this now. What should I expect?
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rodbeard posted:I forgot I kickstarted this game 5 years ago and am just downloading this now. What should I expect? A few clicks to uninstall it.
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Gildiss posted:A few clicks to uninstall it. 
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rodbeard posted:I forgot I kickstarted this game 5 years ago and am just downloading this now. What should I expect? Unironically... this. I kickstarted this as well unfortunately.  It is pretty terrible.
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hey lum you wanna come in here and explain just what the gently caress is going on with this trainwreck? thanks
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I just keep checking this thread in the hopes of reading that the developer is closing its doors and shutting down the servers.
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I said come in! posted:I just keep checking this thread in the hopes of reading that the developer is closing its doors and shutting down the servers.
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TheAgent posted:hey lum you wanna come in here and explain just what the gently caress is going on with this trainwreck? I think he's busy playing LOTRO instead of SOTA. Which pretty much speaks for itself...
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Shroud of the Avatar: It's an MMO from Lord British and there's a goon on the team that'll hang out with you! Unless you hurt his feelings, then he'll go play LOTRO instead.
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how come these guys always make big 3d mmos with their small budgets? why not just make a new uo, 2dish and all.
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I want Electronic Arts to make a new Ultima game as a gently caress you to Garriot.
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Groovelord Neato posted:how come these guys always make big 3d mmos with their small budgets? why not just make a new uo, 2dish and all. Video game crowdfunding projects that include modest, achievable goals dont bring in the big bucks.
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I said come in! posted:I want Electronic Arts to make a new Ultima game as a gently caress you to Garriot. Yeah, kinda like how Inafune hosed up with Mighty No.9 and now we have capcom coming back with Mega Man 12
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I sincerely hope Lum has another job lined up when this is gone. Perhaps there's a place for him... at Brad McQuaid's side! 
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unironically, the best part of this game has been watching the clueless old people try to convince potential new customers that there's some paid-shill conspiracy going on trying to "ruin" this game's reputation. Starr Long is literally going to other forums talking about this mess and providing dire warnings about organized trolls:quote:...instead of fixing those problems, the devs decided to try and play victim and blame the backers calling them "An organized group of trolls trying to hurt their game". When the reality is they love to spin and play victim instead admitting they are the problem... I will post their video that speaks volumes... Now, Garriott himself has also gotten in on the "it's a paid troll conspiracy!!!!!!!!11" bandwagon: I mean, ha ha, as if we're all getting paid by Activizzard! What a joke! Right, guys? Like there's some kind of shadowy cabal working behind the scenes to injure this poor, wonderful project. It would be bigger than WoW if only we organized trolls would stop our campaign! Which totally doesn't exist, ha! SCORPION OLIVE VANISH JUNGLE Also, remember what the You need a platinum account to access this content.
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oh man I never thought Richard Garriott would be presiding over the video game version of an episode of kitchen nightmares 
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Groovelord Neato posted:how come he didn't put a bunch of his windfall from ncsoft into the game? He spent it all going into space.
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Groovelord Neato posted:how come he didn't put a bunch of his windfall from ncsoft into the game? Origin alumni understand that the way to get rich is to make other people pay you to fail
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I said come in! posted:I want Electronic Arts to make a new Ultima game as a gently caress you to Garriot. Once Anthem fails and they strip what's left of Bioware to the bone maybe the last few devs standing can get the project. Won't need more than a small team if they stick to isometric.
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Latest Live release email straight up knows no one is playing anymore and opened with "Come back, Avatar!:
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Average players is 237.8 for the last 30 days, putting it just behind the reboot of Puzzle Pirates (240).
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Groovelord Neato posted:how come he didn't put a bunch of his windfall from ncsoft into the game? Why risk your own money when Kickstarter users will assume all of that risk for you in exchange for literally nothing?
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Seanzor posted:Why risk your own money when Kickstarter users will assume all of that risk for you in exchange for literally nothing? See Star Citizen.
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Those are worse numbers than the live UO servers and a couple private/emulated servers. So much for being a successor to UO.
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Aaod posted:Those are worse numbers than the live UO servers and a couple private/emulated servers. So much for being a successor to UO. What are the subscription numbers for UO these days, anyways?
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