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It's only a disaster if you paid real money for the lot/house. Despite the poor reception, if I see it on sale for like $10, I'll pick it up.
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Tempus Thales posted:To make the long story short, see here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3582612&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=17#post462679823 To ramp the irony meter up a bit, if this had happened with UO 15-20 years ago, Lum would've said something amusing about it.
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Nunes posted:That reminds me of oldschool UO where the popular set was hq plate everything and chainmail shirt. I never found out why that was, but I recall a guy calling it an archer set, so I assumed it was optimal for archers. I wish more games allowed for that kind of oddball design.
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hey lum, convince your boss to drop the steam sale price to $10.
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Strontosaurus posted:If you could send a single message to Richard Garriott, what would it be? I've got a direct channel to the boy but we need to be civil. Freakazoid_ posted:drop the price to $10.
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I'm looking at the current steam sale and the game still isn't $10.
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Lum_ posted:If there's still a goon house/presence in Estgard, we just opened up NPC submissions for them for Dev+ people. If you have access, here is the thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY all of these should do.
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My offer of  is still on the table, Richard.
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haha there's going to be a release date after all! too bad it was a scam tho. although i think the worst part is lum is still attached to this. how far he's fallen 
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Lum_ posted:Top 8 List Of Why Lum Doesn't Post Here Any More:  member when you used to have thick skin? when you used to rip into terrible mmos?
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Thursday Next posted:Did you know: 
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Mr. Pickles posted:what if an aging gaming columnist licked your bellybutton twitter blows up and your life is ruined forever
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Meanwhile, in Lum's cubicle, 
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Unctuous Cretin posted:That's exactly what I'm saying. Back then it was devastating but part of the game and you learned how to not be a scrub. Modern games you face roll to max level. except MMOs never end at max level. there is such a thing as challenging content that doesn't require the presence of pks.
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my offer of still stands, richard
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Zerilan posted:I keep forgetting the Ultima series wasn't just UO sometimes until reading discussions like this. Think the only non-UO one I've ever played was the version of 3 on the NES. On my very first day of playing UO, I asked someone why I didn't get that personality test at character creation like I did in the NES games.
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Shy posted:Who is Lum and why is everyone trying to defend him? All I understood is he's somehow involved in producing this piece of poo poo. Proto-blogger from the late 90's who tore apart the first MMOs for doing stupid poo poo. He's an example of living long enough to become the villain.
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Is the release price still going to be 60? Because it should be like 10. Probably less by now.
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CoffeeBooze posted:That launch party looks lame as hell.
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I didn't realize how much the buildings looks like something from a late 90's cgi cutscene.
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Frog Act posted:I watched some streams of this and it is unbelievably bad, what is it's gimmick supposed to be? A guy was like talking to a bunch of "prithee thou art mine liege" type npcs and then doing these janky animations at really generic npcs lol I just looked up a streamer and he is defending the poo poo out of this game and garriott.
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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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Stefan Prodan posted:Lum i'm glad you escaped I hope you find a good job He has only one offer.
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Mr. Pickles posted:all the posts about Lum the Mad and how he's been sucking Garriott's dick have been removed afaik, so no real point in reading this imo Lum's posts are still here tho
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It's been ftp since early this year, but the restrictions on it prevent you from having what little fun could be had.
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mike12345 posted:guess I was right after all, it's now fully f2p oh.
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listening to the original Ultima Online midi files while I gently weep in my hands wondering what could have been
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You may have signed an NDA but you need therapy. Start your mmo blog again and find inner peace 
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Cardboard Fox posted:Doesn't this Richard Gariot guy have a castle? Why doesn't he just allow his employees to live and work out of there? he sold his castle a few years ago and the new owner bulldozed it lol
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I said come in! posted:I would continue to play this if it wasn't obvious that it'll be shutting down in the next year or so with the release of the new Lord of the Rings MMO. That just means we'll get a private server or two, which I would be extremely down for.
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Dark Off posted:bit of old news but garriott is already working on a new mmo. Beaten by about 9 years, and at least they were honest in advertising it as a bitcoin casino.
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CoffeeBooze posted:Its weird how many goons get upset about this stuff. You're revising history on a very niche topic and then acting dismissively to take away from the fact you just showed your rear end.
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The playerbase may be small, but that doesn't mean there can't be a repeat of the uo volunteer lawsuit. iirc, they won and got paid.
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I actually thought there was going to be a kind of MMO revival as Garriott and McQuaid's different approaches would cause the next generation of MMOs to build off their successes. Their failure is probably why the latest hit MMO is a diablo clone. Also I hope Lum is doing well.
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RagnarokZ posted:Why? Garriott failed with Tabula Rasa and McQuaid failed with Vanguard, we were all warned what was going on. In particular it was Garriott's initial pitch. He thought he could craft a new way to present offline and online content that would benefit both solo players and group players, something that would break the mold of just soloing to level cap and then doing group content in a typical theme park MMO. Instead they diverted to harnessing obscene amounts of money from whales while providing a mediocre core gameplay experience that didn't really know what it wanted to be. McQuaid's approach was a total reversal. Go back to what made EQ great and cash in on the nostalgia while beating the drums of things being better in their day. Around the time the project was announced, the games industry had begun a remaster renaissance, so it wasn't a bad idea on paper. But then he mismanaged the poo poo out of that project so badly, the entire team had to rebuild the game from scratch after he died. Anyway, after something like New World, which disregarded even the most basic design principles learned since the early days of the internet, I don't really have a lot of faith in anyone evolving the MMO model. I fully expect the same sorts of gameplay already available but with an excuse to charge monthly.
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