How did it come to be?

Sir-Sven

This topic is meant for mature audiences only. So don't complain about me complaining.

Why UO? WHY!? Of all the games out there, one of the very first and very best had to bite the dust this way. Even before EQ, hundreds of thousands of people played UO. It even made the Guinness Book of World Records in 2000! Now it is a worthless game which is encompassed by PRE-TEENS! Damn it makes me sad. Those damn pre-teens taking over the game even when I played it. All they did was curse at you for killing a cow for some damn meat. Then the mage tamer wave came. The only way to beat the mage tamers was become one yourself. It wasn't hard either. They made it so easy to gain skill you could leave your computer and come back GM on accident. It is horrible that this had to happen to such a classic, awesome game. I would emerse myself in UO everyday. I had to fight with my brother though. Because we both wanted to play it so much. If it were up to em, I wouldn't get off until I was so hungry my stomach hurt really bad. Or until I couldn't hold my pee in any longer. I remember one day I started playing in the early morning and didn't get off until the early morning (6:00 AM). That was only once. A game that can be this much fun and this addicting had to fall down the drain. While there are more games like City of Heroes that are prospering like mad!? This drives me insane. It tears me to think the new games are doing better. Because UO was such a good game. The old UO was the best game that ever existed.

-Sir Sven

((UO falls lower everyday on the MMORPG.com game list. It is now 12th in line.))

digitydarkman

Yes UO Was the best, i hated to see it fall, i played Pacific/Catskills for 4.5 years, i remember the day it all started to go down hill i logged in and all the trees around me were dead and there was a non-working scroll next to my profile, it was never the same from that day on then we got moonstones.. blah blah, you know the story, whats even more sad is im actually thinking about starting my account back up because no mmorpg out there offers nothing close to UO even with UO being as jacked up as it is, i still belive it to be the best mmorpg out there, just because i can still see in my mind the way the game was, so sad  another really gay thing.. what kinda game comes out as rated M then goes to rated T. that tells you alot about it right there.. I Love and hate EA all at the same time they make great games, but they also know how to destroy and not patch or care about games after release also... its just so sad i dont even know what im saying anymore

Dienekes

I played way back when UO was new and ended up leaving after playing for about 2 years.  Just recently I have been game hopping from MMORPG to MMORPG and could not find one that didn't get stale in a couple of months.  Lets face it all the games out there are cheap rip off of D&D gaming systems or poorly built cash cow games.  There might be a couple good ones coming up with revolutionary ideas such as TR but until then something has to keep my attention.

Long story short, a few weeks ago I tried a 15 day trial of UO and found I really enjoyed it again.  I was actually having a good time.  I believe that it is still a good game if you can avoid some of the bad players and have fun with the game the way it was originally meant to be played.  At least it'll hold me till I get a chance to see if EA has botched UXO. 

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digitydarkman

i would feel better going back to UO had not my Tower and Villa went IDOC and fell

Sir-Sven

That sucks, I wish I could go back to the UO that existed when I got my first house. But that's when Trammel was out. I never got a house until Trammel came out becauase so many people moved to Trammel, I placed in Felucca next to my guildmates. It was awesome. I left for a retarted vacation to Yellowstone the DAY house placing became available in Trammel. Not that I really wanted to place there but it would be my first house. I was bad at making gold. hehe, i'll stop rambling. How did it come to be?

-Sir Sven

Unknown

Yes, I agree this game was awesome. I played on Baja about 5 years ago. Thats about when I stopped. The pvp was fun. The house custumization and the lot was cool. They also did a great job entering new content every so often to keep stuff like that flowing. I too took a break and one I missed my house refresh by one day. I logged in to my house being pillaged. I couldn't play UO again.

Just recently while MMO hopping I tried doing the free UO shards. They are fun if you get into a good community but not enough people. Really miss the old days of this game. Was good but I think its time is slowing drawing near.

What they need to do is revamp graphics but keep all the same UO concepts. Just like clean the servers and re-release the game from scratch.

Skael

I miss the old UO so much!!

That's probably the only MMOG I can look back on and say "Wow, I had some good times in that game". I started playing on Napa Valley during UO:R and I loved it not only for the PvP but for the social aspects. That is the only game I have played, other than old school Anarchy Online, where people would go someplace just to socialize and have fun. In UO my friends and I would spend hours in our friend Raven's house, she was a GM smith, and we would just stand around talking and having fun and watching people come in and place orders. And when she needed more ingots to complete an order, we would log onto our miner chars and mine for her. We never wanted her to pay us for them but she always insisted on paying. *ranting* The only other game I experienced anything like that was in Anarchy Online, when the night clubs and bars came out we used to go there dressed up in funny outfits and do the little dance gestures and jump up on tables and dance and all this cool stuff. People got into their characters in a way that no one does anymore, in any MMOG. I've tried so many other games and none of them are replacements for UO. UXO looks way too cartoony, I think that game's target audience is probably younger players... just look at the interface. Tabula Rasa looks promising to me.

I can't seem to get all the fond memories of Trammel house placement night out of my head.

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digitydarkman

well i reactivated my account check my old IDOC runes and ive found over 20 places to place houses in fell 2 of them big enough for a two story, but i was broke so i just place a small house for now lol

Sir-Sven

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Originally posted by Skael

I miss the old UO so much!!
That's probably the only MMOG I can look back on and say "Wow, I had some good times in that game". I started playing on Napa Valley during UO:R and I loved it not only for the PvP but for the social aspects. That is the only game I have played, other than old school Anarchy Online, where people would go someplace just to socialize and have fun. In UO my friends and I would spend hours in our friend Raven's house, she was a GM smith, and we would just stand around talking and having fun and watching people come in and place orders. And when she needed more ingots to complete an order, we would log onto our miner chars and mine for her. We never wanted her to pay us for them but she always insisted on paying. *ranting* The only other game I experienced anything like that was in Anarchy Online, when the night clubs and bars came out we used to go there dressed up in funny outfits and do the little dance gestures and jump up on tables and dance and all this cool stuff. People got into their characters in a way that no one does anymore, in any MMOG. I've tried so many other games and none of them are replacements for UO. UXO looks way too cartoony, I think that game's target audience is probably younger players... just look at the interface. Tabula Rasa looks promising to me.
I can't seem to get all the fond memories of Trammel house placement night out of my head.

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I miss the old UO too! I started during UO Rennaissance too. On Great Lakes. My characters name was Sven. I started out as a Mace fighter/Mage because I needed to get my stats and skills up. I would kill monsters with my mace, get a spell or some gold to buy reagents. Until eventually I was good enough to live off of Magery. It was sooo much fun. I remember spending hours picking up reagents. They don't spawn as much anymore. Everyone was friendly and nice. Until people started getting nasty and greedy. Greedy for everything. Fame. Fortune. You name it.

I remember when I used to hang out with a some guilds and bat at a dummy for hours to get strength up. I remember seeing the awesome mages polymorphed into Daemons. I remember when I had no Idea where I was or what to do. I was speak Kal Ort Por because I saw other people saying that and dissapearing. I thought it would work. I was such a newbie. I miss being a newbie.

-Sir Sven

Skael

lol me too, I loved being a newbie. I started out playing with a few RL friends, and we would always hang out in Vesper and plan all kinds of bizarre adventures. I went through many phases in my appearance, one funny one was when I wore bright blue and bright yellow boots, a sash and a tricorne hat.. because after all, I was a sailor!  I actually had a parking spot for my boat next to Vesper bank that I knew to the exact tile. I would sail through the little canals in town under the bridges and stuff. omg, Vesper beach was soooo much fun!! I figured out how to do provocation, and all the other newbs that came to kill stuff with us were puzzled when they saw all the monsters on the beach fighting each other.

Funny story:  One time, me and two other friends sailed from Vesper to the Cove orc fort. Before we had set out, I made up a story that Cassius, this one guy who we would marvel at for being able to polymorph and summon elementals and was insanely rich for that time in UO, had given me 1 mil since I was a newbie. We were like 13 years old at the time, lol. Well at the orc fort we stood around on the boat and one guy casted some low level spells on the orcs, but soon enough they told me the real reason why we were there. They told me that if I didn't give each of them 500k, they would leave me stranded at the orc fort. At first I was a little shocked, but I got them back. I said 'Kal Ort Por', and then hid.  And they were like 'crap, he recalled'. So they sailed back to Vesper, with me hidden on board, and when we reached the dock and they were walking off the boat, I walked off with them.

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Unknown

Something like that happened to me. I had a house near Cove. Pretty close...about straight south I think it was from the graveyard. (One of my favorite places when they took out the Lich spawn on all the other graveyards!) Anyways, since I lived so close I had a fun time killing the nobles in the town. (Little evil). They were good skill gain and dropped a nice amount of gold. The draw back is they made me grey and sometimes red. So one day while I was there doing my regular sweep of the town. (Not too busy of a town)...all of a sudden game a party of three galloping in. I was grey and that wasn't good. I noticed I was holding my vanq kris and really REALLY didn't want to get ganked. So I tried hiding. Well Moonglow be damned it didn't work and I had all three of them on me. Lucky for me they were all melees! If a caster in the group I could have been giving my soul up for that vanq kris again. Luckly living close I was able to run to my house. (Pretty harmed too). Funny thing was one of those condemned orc scouts found their way into my house. Right when I got inside...*WHAM* arrow to the head and I'm dead. Lucky for me my door closed and the orc didn't get away with what he looted. I was able to log another character in and dispatch him and return my items. (Which included the vanq!) I counted my lucky stars that day...and I don't think I killed nobles in Cove again.

Sir-Sven

LOL. Those are both halarious stories. I remember when I played in Minax, that was late in the game for me. It was awesome, there were so many people that worked together to protect their fort. It really did suck though, it kept me from accelling in the game and I never got awesome. Thats about when people started speed hacking and stuff. I would love to play the factions on test center though. People ganked a lot too in the factions. I didn't like stat loss either.... you know, I don't think I like the factions anymore. lol.

-Sir Sven

Skael

I have always loved Test Center. Screw the skill and stat gain grind, just craft whatever gear you need and set all the skills you want, and after ten minutes or so you're ready to jump into PvP. It'd be cool to play on there a lot and become a regular, but I remember hearing that Test Center isn't around all the time anymore, so the would-be regulars either don't play anymore or aren't as close.

When I came back to UO for a month or so during AOS, when Napa Valley was getting boring for me, I spent some time on Test in Brit Fel. I hung out at the healer shop in Brit where a lot of faction combat would go on. I would go to the provisioners and buy the entire stock of bagballs ( all three kinds ) and wooden boxes. These items cannot be walked through when dropped on the ground. I would fill every tile of the healer shop, jam the door shut, and cover some of the ground around the door. I guess that's griefing and I should be ashamed, but it was a lot of fun seeing the way different people reacted and how it prevented res killing, which I was VERY sick of on my True Brittanian char I had on Test. A lot of people whined about it being bannable, but who's going to get banned on Test? There are no GMs anyway. I think it was a good thing because it gave people who just got ressed time to re-equip, heal up and possibly recall away rather than be res-killed.

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