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The state of Ultima Online.

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BrandonPhillips4

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Re: The state of Ultima Online.

lol ya i member the good old days, i was only like 10 wen i first started, im 17 now, me and my cousin used to run around, and i also member one time this guy started yelling stuff at me cus i didnt no wat i was doing and i was like im going to kill you, and we were at the smithy in brit hes like go ahead so i attacked him and not paying attetion hit ok, to the guards thing cus i didnt no any better and i got guard wackd...i was so mad, cus sum guy just gave me a bunch of armor. lol ya man that was a great speech, but thank god to all the Uogamers staff for keeping most of it alive!
 
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Kooz

Wanderer
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Furota said:
To be honest, I don't really know how to start this out. I'm simply going to keep typing, and whatever comes of this, comes of it.

What happened to Ultima Online? What happened to UOGamers? What happened to everything we once stood and played for? Why, I remember back when I first started playing UO. I was about thirteen then, and damn, it was fun. Valient battles versus dragons, seeing my first balron in a dungeon and being scared shitless, because at the time, I wasn't as apathetic about the game as I am now. At the time, everything in UO meant something to me, simply because it was another world; a world different from mine own. A world in which I could relax, and enjoy the fineries of a different age.

A long time ago, when I first started playing UO, I wanted a house. I walked for days and days (literally, real-time days), and simply couldn't find where I wanted to build a house. Finally, north of Minoc, east of Reaper valley, just below the plains, there was a dense wooded area. I thought it was perfect. Now, all I had to do was find an axe so I could chop down those damn trees, is what I thought to myself. So, I found myself an axe. I tried for another three days to chop down trees, and I was getting so damn frustrated! Finally, I saw someone, and asked him, "How do I get rid of these trees? I really want to build a house!" After all, I'd seen plenty of other houses built in forested areas, and I wanted one as well. The guy laughed and was very kind. He told me, "Come on, man... don't you know? You have to find an empty spot and buy a housing deed in order to place a house. It's pretty simple. How long have you been chopping trees for?" I told him that it'd been three days, and again he laughed, yet I did not feel as if he were berating, or ridiculing me. It was an entirely different world, where I could interact with people I never would've had the chance to meet in real life. Ultima Online was a world of wizardry, of mighty heroes who lay claim to the corpses of even mightier beasts. Ultima Online was everyone's fantasy; a world with no true reprocussions. A world where you can enjoy that which you choose to, instead of life forcing upon you what it will.

Ultima Online was fun.

Now, as I look back on the "good ol' days," I smile to myself and laugh at the countless hours I've spent with my eyes glued to the monitor. As time has passed, however, the game has lost its edge. The game has lost its fun for me. I log in now merely out of habit, and because I've acquired so much that it'd be a waste to not do something with it. That, and I can on occasion find something to do that is entertaining; whether it be pvp, merchantry or joining a random guild and going on a dungeon crawl or treasure hunt. As I look back and reflect, comparing how I felt then to how I feel now, I can honestly say that I do not have the fun I once did.

How can this be fun? Constant flaming and shit-talking to one another, and I'm not innocent! I know this... and yet, I feel as if all of us, as a community, could do better to improve the gameplay of not only ourselves, but each other, which would in turn make this game far more fun than it is now. I don't have the solution, but if we try, can't we find one? Instead of putting in patch after patch after patch to cure the ailments of the game for merely a short time, why not revamp the entire god damn system? Let's find out what the players want--what they need.

Ryan, Krrios, Mark, Samara... all of the staff, the entire lot of you (even Terron!) have done such an amazing job at bringing UO back to what it once was, and even though nearly everything is the same, you'll never be able to patch the lack of faith the players have in one another. You'll never be able to bring back the spirit that Ultima Online once had. That is our choice, as players, as individuals, and as a community. It is our choice whether or not we will make this game fun, and to be honest, I don't think many people care. It doesn't seem as if people play this game to have fun, so much as they play it out of sheer habit, out of boredom. .I wish, for just one day, that UO could be like it once was. I wish that once again the spirit of the players could rise and conquer all. I wish that on every screen there was something different. Battles meant something. Victors were crowned and known. Now, with all of the thirty party programs, hacks, cheats, scamming, exploits and whatever else... victory changes hands like coin


I wish that for just once, everyone would just sit back and realize how they've made the game not only for others, but for themselves. Why do something you don't enjoy? Why live, or play, in misery? Would you stay with a woman simply because you believed that nothing better would come of this life? And the same goes for you women--why stay with a man when there is so much more out there? Why eat food that you don't like if there's something in the fridge that, even though it needs to be cooked, is absolutely delicious? If each and every one of us will take a step back and realize what we can do for this game, and for one another, I believe that this game could once again be truly, truly fun.

Forgive my rambling, and I have one more thing to say: Don't let a good thing die.

Thank you,
Lorthic
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Wow. So I wasn't gonna read this cause it was too long and it was about UO, right from the begining I knew I was gonna end up flaming you/making fun of you. Thank god I did read it.


I wish, for just one day, that UO could be like it once was. I wish that once again the spirit of the players could rise and conquer all. I wish that on every screen there was something different. Battles meant something. Victors were crowned and known. Now, with all of the thirty party programs, hacks, cheats, scamming, exploits and whatever else... victory changes hands like coin.


This is one of the funniest shit I've read UO-related. *laughs*
 
Lorthic

Lorthic

Knight
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Kooz said:
Wow. So I wasn't gonna read this cause it was too long and it was about UO, right from the begining I knew I was gonna end up flaming you/making fun of you. Thank god I did read it.


I wish, for just one day, that UO could be like it once was. I wish that once again the spirit of the players could rise and conquer all. I wish that on every screen there was something different. Battles meant something. Victors were crowned and known. Now, with all of the thirty party programs, hacks, cheats, scamming, exploits and whatever else... victory changes hands like coin.


This is one of the funniest shit I've read UO-related. *laughs*
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Laugh it up all you want, dude, because I honestly don't give a shit. Rofl. While I'm continuing to play UO, I still wish it was how everyone has described the game in this thread. If you think it's funny that I wish UO could be like it was before, then what are you doing here, and why are you playing?
 
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TestamentX

Knight
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

A funny story from me and I wish I could get this feeling back. :(
I remember the first person I ever met, was sometime when I started late 98, his name was Zak. Well, we were both new, not even a week old each when we met, but running into trinsic forest, taking walks from Brit to Vesper just chit-chatting away was awsome. I know doing something like that might be boring but the it was the coolest shit to not have a clue where you were going.
Then next thing you know, a red comes along and kills us. We had no clue you could rez so we finished our daily walk to Vesper as ghosts clueless as fuck.
As I said, now that shit seems dumb but at the time it was one of the coolest feelings. :)
Another thing was carrying on conversations with wondering healers thinking they were people...I won't get into that though. rofl.
 
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Lorthic

Knight
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Testamentx said:
A funny story from me and I wish I could get this feeling back. :(
I remember the first person I ever met, was sometime when I started late 98, his name was Zak. Well, we were both new, not even a week old each when we met, but running into trinsic forest, taking walks from Brit to Vesper just chit-chatting away was awsome. I know doing something like that might be boring but the it was the coolest shit to not have a clue where you were going.
Then next thing you know, a red comes along and kills us. We had no clue you could rez so we finished our daily walk to Vesper as ghosts clueless as fuck.
As I said, now that shit seems dumb but at the time it was one of the coolest feelings. :)
Another thing was carrying on conversations with wondering healers thinking they were people...I won't get into that though. rofl.
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Typing out, "GOD DAMNIT WHY WONT YOU JUST ANSWER MY QUESTIONS?"
 
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TestamentX

Knight
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Furota said:
Typing out, "GOD DAMNIT WHY WONT YOU JUST ANSWER MY QUESTIONS?"
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I think just being lost with no particular destination was magic back then.

About the healers though, I guess I will get into a bit and say, I knew how to page a GM and I paged on a healer. :(

Don't fucking laugh.
 
Lorthic

Lorthic

Knight
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Testamentx said:
I think just being lost with no particular destination was magic back then.

About the healers though, I guess I will get into a bit and say, I knew how to page a GM and I paged on a healer. :(

Don't fucking laugh.
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rofling so hard irl atm omgroin omgyroscope
 
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TestamentX

Knight
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Furota said:
rofling so hard irl atm omgroin omgyroscope
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A sad face is mine. :(

I love you original post man, I talk about stuff like what with friends all the time. Most of the newer people will never understand why we miss it like we do either. That video clip Soul Harvestor of PK-HQ made sums up everything I loved about UO when I first started. Being PKed didn't piss me off, it motivated me to play more and get better so I could compete.

Damnit Furota, you got me almost teary-eyed thinking about teh good old days. :)
 
Lorthic

Lorthic

Knight
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Testamentx said:
A sad face is mine. :(

I love you original post man, I talk about stuff like what with friends all the time. Most of the newer people will never understand why we miss it like we do either. That video clip Soul Harvestor of PK-HQ made sums up everything I loved about UO when I first started. Being PKed didn't piss me off, it motivated me to play more and get better so I could compete.

Damnit Furota, you got me almost teary-eyed thinking about teh good old days. :)
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Hehehe... there have been so many good times during this game, and people like Kooz here just don't seem to understand.
 
Lorthic

Lorthic

Knight
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Druid311 said:
only thing I agree on is what UO was, other than that lorthic should go die
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Did you know that your youngest sister gives great head?
 
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Mary Poppins

Wanderer
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Nice post, i felt the same way when i first started. I wanted to be a wizard and would train and train, but there were no spells around and you couldn't buy them, so i figured I'd become a stoic. When i became a master stoic (90 med or so) I went to magincia because it was the city of mages. I thought I could join and hang with the other wizards. Took me a while to realize what the real deal was. Anyway, i still hang in magincia, but the shine's gone - its just another city in a list of recall spots.
 
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TestamentX

Knight
Re: The state of Ultima Online.

Mary Poppins said:
Nice post, i felt the same way when i first started. I wanted to be a wizard and would train and train, but there were no spells around and you couldn't buy them, so i figured I'd become a stoic. When i became a master stoic (90 med or so) I went to magincia because it was the city of mages. I thought I could join and hang with the other wizards. Took me a while to realize what the real deal was. Anyway, i still hang in magincia, but the shine's gone - its just another city in a list of recall spots.
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Yea, I have always found it strange how certain towns got decided to be popular. I like Jhelom, but it's always dead. So say other towns suck, what defines a town to suck? Why is Del, Brit, and Moonglow always packed while towns like Nujelm, Magincia and Serpent's Hold deserted. They all have the same shops or at least the good shops. I use Jhelom for eveything I do dealing with NPCs, also, it is not a faction effected town, just wish others would stray away from the same ole towns sometimes. :(
 
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