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I said come in! posted:Wealthy people honestly don't waste their money, that is why they are wealthy.
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Aug 2, 2019 10:40
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DancingShade posted:It loads for me. Your internet browser of choice is broken. Adblock was blocking their refund policy.
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Aug 2, 2019 14:10
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Byolante posted:This doesn't square with the reality that's been exposed in the lootbox era. I would say that the whales that spend loads of money they can't afford are the exception not the rule when compared to the overall population of a game but I don't have any statistics to back that assertion up.
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Kimsemus posted:I don't really agree with this, though. Disposable income is just that -- disposable. I'm not robbing my budget to spend money speculating on what may end up as a bad game. I'll qualify that statement by saying even I was smart enough to not spend money on Shroud. I was stupid enough to spend money on Shroud myself, but this was when Kickstarter was cutting edge and new. I thankfully was able to get all of my money back.
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Kimsemus posted:I would say that the whales that spend loads of money they can't afford are the exception not the rule when compared to the overall population of a game This sort of game is more preying on depression than peer pressure that you see in say fortnite but in either case spending 1ks on something like this is not the workings of a rational adult mind.
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I wait with bated breath to see if anyone will be attending Lord Garriott's $8000 Chunky Soup Super Supper this time around.
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Beefeater posted:I wait with bated breath to see if anyone will be attending Lord Garriott's $8000 Chunky Soup Super Supper this time around. I will be there, wearing a wizards hat made out of tinfoil and styrofoam
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Aug 15, 2019 23:59
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I saw some .. er, no, steam told me to go to twitch for some cool game givaways, and its a German guy playing SotA, he's doing the usual things of autoattacking spiders who molest him while he mines and cuts down tree's, all generic mmo stuff, but he had an awesome purple pimp cape with a bad attempt at cloth physics, I looked it up and its F2P now, so, Thanks to whoever gave LB their duckets, I have a green cape and am called Margeret Thatcher ingame, see you all there.
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Aug 25, 2019 00:56
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Hmm you probably won’t
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Stefan Prodan posted:Hmm you probably won’t I see what you mean, game appears a little dead/second life style mishmash of whatever mood takes the "plot owners" fancy. Also a robot taught me how to sword at things. how bizarre.
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Aug 25, 2019 08:57
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Why robots? Because Lord British wanted all NPCs on schedules that would have them go home and go to sleep every "night". Obviously having a tutorial NPC say "bite me I'm off duty, wait for me to come back" to progress is... less than ideal. Thus we got him to agree to robot NPCs.
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Aug 26, 2019 16:12
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(This "why"/"because" logic loop explains most things in this game, btw)
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Aug 26, 2019 16:13
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Lum_ posted:Why robots?
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Aug 26, 2019 20:30
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You'd think the tutorial one would be a quick fix - just have two or three guards on rotation and every few hours have one show up, greet the other, and relieve them of duty. They could all even just be shacking out in the same building or chilling around a nearby campfire.
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So I'm in the middle of a move, and among all the stuff I'm keeping is a weird old relic of the past: See, the last time Garriott hosed up an MMO, the first of multiple Ultima Online 2 attempts that failed, they decided to get all the cross-media stuff in order, and so with the books printing and preparing for release... they canceled the game, right before the first one came out. But they released them all anyway because  I told you that story to tell you this one and how I got to this thread: finding these novels reminded me that "oh, right, wasn't Hickman writing a trilogy based on this new MMO? Maybe I should see if those are dirt cheap." Then I learned today that they wrote one of them and Hickman stopped having a single thing to do with this project, vanishing into the ether and leaving Garriott to go "Why, we've been spitballing notes about book two just last week!" for years now. I hope someone else gets a laugh out of this like I did, because good god, what a mess.
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The Todd McFarlane stuff was actually repurposed for a UO1 expansion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online:_Lord_Blackthorn%27s_Revenge
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Yeah, they hired McFarlane to make a bunch of creatures for UO2. I remember it was a pretty big deal because he was still riding quite high in the comic book world due to how popular Spawn and Venom became. Then UO2 went poof, but they had to do something with it all, so they converted it to UO and tossed it in.
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Lord "Babyshaker 9000" Blackthorn really rocking those lobotomy scars there. I like. As there's not a particularly large group of people to mess around with in SotA, I fired up No Man's Sky instead. 
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I just wanted to share this Garriott:Synthbuttrange posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU3rO3yE6Tk
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Is it dead yet?
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Sep 9, 2019 13:32
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Bob Socko posted:Is it dead yet? "yet"
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Bob Socko posted:Is it dead yet? I honestly check this thread once a week at least to see if it is. It's crazy to me that it's still holding on.
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Sep 9, 2019 16:12
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With SCAM closed I can’t find the source but someone posted something about some pretty nasty RP going on? I’m hoping I’m misremembering or it was rumors but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s part of what’s keeping people on the server.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:With SCAM closed I can’t find the source but someone posted something about some pretty nasty RP going on? I’m hoping I’m misremembering or it was rumors but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s part of what’s keeping people on the server. You're not misremembering, I saw the screenshots proving its existence. The community is full of sexpests that are into rape fantasy.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:52
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Coming soon in the cash shop: sex and rape animations painstakingly dreamed up and animated by Lord British himself.
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Sep 11, 2019 16:33
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bought fresh off the unity store, you mean
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 Starr Long has his finger on the pulse of the classy SotA community.
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I can't stop staring in horror at the figure on the top right. It's like one of her legs is on backwards.
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Sep 14, 2019 20:02
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Someone snap Barbie's leg back on, fast!
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Bieeanshee posted:I can't stop staring in horror at the figure on the top right. It's like one of her legs is on backwards. Just the word "Adultima" gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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Maybe it's bad formatting. Maybe it's supposed to be "Ad Ultima," meaning "at last" or "we're last" or something equally clever, like cross-promotional crap with Star Citizen.
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They repeat it as 'Adultima' at the bottom of the image. Just past the fire-breathing dragons. 
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Sep 15, 2019 05:31
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It's the name of their in-game nightclub, which is where this "party" will take place.
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Bieeanshee posted:They repeat it as 'Adultima' at the bottom of the image. Just past the fire-breathing dragons. Yeah, I know. It was as much of a charitable thought as I was willing to give them after all these years.
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This update combined with the gross role playing going on makes all of this feel less sad at the idea of lonely Ultima fans in their 40s+ giving thousands to borderline scammers (I’m being gracious) to keep their favorite series alive and more disgusting at the thought it’s become a place to hide and harbor grooming for abuse. I know SA is long past trolling MMOs to cause chaos but oof.
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MassivelyOP: Players held a steamy Release 69 ‘dance party’ in Shroud of the AvatarChris Neal posted:We assume most MMO players are at least aware of the more “adult” roleplaying that goes on in the quiet corners of our genre – it’s just a thing, humans are humans. So the fact that there appears to be a more adult-oriented celebratory slant on Shroud of the Avatar’s Release 69 launch is not too surprising. What may lift an eyebrow or two, however, is that the event was promoted in the game’s forums by executive producer Starr Long.
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