The players want better...
No meaningful updates in the past few years. 3rd party clients running rampant -> bots running rampant. Shadowguard, Doom, Champ spawns, ToTs (when they're active). PvP is unplayable unless you want to cheat. Tons of bugs I've reported, via email, forum, direct email to Mesanna and paging a GM to show them, which they said they would forward to Mesanna but YEARS have gone by and they still exist.
.... and we get 3+ years of neglect for a new game (that no one asked for) with nothing meaningful to show for it and a summer party on Origin (which again no one asked for) when the last Origin anniversary get together was a shit-show. Least they could do is have a summer clicky like they did last year, skip the 'party' which surely will be another joke fest.
The players want better. We deserve better.
.... and we get 3+ years of neglect for a new game (that no one asked for) with nothing meaningful to show for it and a summer party on Origin (which again no one asked for) when the last Origin anniversary get together was a shit-show. Least they could do is have a summer clicky like they did last year, skip the 'party' which surely will be another joke fest.
The players want better. We deserve better.
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Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
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i prefer silence to lies, ty
I would just like to say this is not to get my post count up, ty
You aren't wrong.... I stopped my reoccurring 6 month renewal and will likely let my account go inactive if there isn't something besides a 1 day (repeat) party before they lapse. The recent (past 3 years) lack of creativity/effort on prod shards is frustrating when there have been numerous people offer up ideas of keeping things fresh that utilize existing content/rewards. The events so far this year are almost exactly the same as they were last year with the Easter Eggs and Faire (and I'd assume same Halloween/Krampus/Artisan Fest). The icing on the cake was the lack of any new rewards for the last repeat event. I feel like the mantra of this Dev team like a bad DJ Khaled song... "Ain't nuthin' sweeter than a repeater.... and another one!!".
The other issue with running the exact same event time after time with very few tweaks is that this helps the scripters simply re-run (and fine tune) the scripts they built for the previous event.
That being said, with the prolonged time between "events" (ie the event after Spring last year was Fall) I'd prefer they just keep rotating old content (with some new rewards) so I at least had some sort of different thing to do... but we haven't even been able to get that lately. Sorry but 2-3 event arcs a year with a few new rewards (zero new rewards for 2023 btw) is simply not enough for me to pay a year long subscription.
All of this lack of content for what? A shard that was supposed to be in Alpha by mid-year and we are 3 days away from surpassing that milestone without a single update on it. It's time to stop throwing good money after bad on that idea and focus all of the Dev resources on keeping what Prod players they have left.
I've said multiple times that I have no idea how a couple spare time programmers can run a free shard better than the paid staff we have. Bugs are promptly fixed. New things added weekly. Clothing choices. Art. You name it it's being done BETTER by people for free.
How is that possible? Why is that comparison even a thing?
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
Just as they stole the coding that started the shard.
If they are so good, why don't they have a money making game on steam like many other developers do, because they are not developers, they are just thieves.
So the staff is not allowed to take pictures on a Vacation they went on years ago?
And what result has all this bitching got you? Read my signature.
Do what a normal person does, play games that you like, I have blown through Age of Empires 4 and now I'm on Dawn of Man.
This is revenue that EA has ceded to these grey shards because they don't pursue these people for the theft of the game's intellectual property. I'm sure they have their reasons.
I'm not sure I'd say they steal everything. The more popular one OUT has very custom clothing unlike anything we'll ever have here.
It's just kind of a turn off that part timers can pump cool stuff out while we pay a sub to get....(insert your own gripe here)
The "coding" was left on the T2A cd I believe, nothing was stolen.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
And probably the main reason EA decided not to spend a lot of money and effort on a game they no longer have complete control of.
I looked at the specific T2A CD on eBay. On the literal CD itself, it states this: "Copywrite electronic arts, inc. All Rights reserved. Origin is an electronic arts brand. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Unauthorized copying, reproduction, public performance or broadcast of this game is a violation of applicable laws."
Whether or not private servers are legal is a non-sequitur. They're certainly derivative. When you have re-imagined maps, high quality 2D artwork, new systems, and a complete re-invention of the client -- it's unfair to discount all off these as "stolen," and I think there's some mutual benefit in the relationship between the official and private servers.
Also, I appreciate that private servers tend to have a functional avenues for communication. It's nauseating that this forum barely works when you try to post a message.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
mighty large opinion for a player with such a low count and only joined in March
just saying…….
You are the first to ever say it was intentional. I have no memory of any talks of UO being available offline back then...none whatsoever..
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
Wow started 2004, just 7 years later, and its so alive almost 20 years old.
Its not going to get better because many of you love the classic client so much.
The rest of us willing to try new client has already adapted to EC, and even newer clients if they are released. I have tried them all, and would have continued with the others like KR etc if I did not stop playing in between.
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I think you meant to quote someone else...
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
T2A gives players the following new features:
The Dev team doesn't regularly communicate with the players anymore or have more than a couple dynamic events a year (ie using existing recycled content); both of those things are independent of CC / EC. It's become pretty clear to me that the team is just looking to go along for the ride until the doors close forever; most likely from the lack of direction/leadership of Mesanna. The biggest issues come down to a lack of communication / ideas which have hardly anything to do with what client you play. They could literally just rotate the same limited type content every month for 4-5 months then start over again to give people things to do and they don't even do that.. everything is already coded for town invasions or ToT yet we've had 1 so far this year. We are getting like the absolute bare minimum right now in my opinion.
Outside of Kyronix and Bleak, I legit have no idea what anyone else is doing because nothing ever seems to be tested in either client (bugs are barely ever fixed) and we might get like 5-6 new pieces of art a year from 2 artist. I'm not sure who is responsible for fixing this website (people still can't stay logged in when not using FireFox) but that's another job that's not getting done and has nothing to do with client preference. The scapegoat of NL is quickly coming to an end too because nobody cares about it anymore. At some point the team is going to have to show us what they have been working on...or maybe they won't because the doors will close and they will just thank everyone for the (free) ride. *shrug*