No one that plays this game after AoS gets hooked. Back before AoS it rocked. To bad OSI made AoS because that ruined the game for so many players including myself. It became all about getting the best items and no one even cares to play anymore other than to get the best items. It is easy to get burnt out pretty quickly.
DAoC is what now? 5 years old? They have some of the best graphics to date. They just updated their graphics. They redid everything. OSI has yet to update the graphics so it is OSI's fault that the graphics are out of date not the age of the game. They could easily update graphics and sound but instead they throw more ugly assed pixelated crack over and over.
Funny how if UO is the father of modern day games no game looks like it. I think UO's wife banged EQ behind its back because every single game out their after EQ looks like EQ and EQ looked nothing like UO. I guess the mother of all current games had some taste and dumped UO for EQ.
WoW isnt going anywhere. Unless its up in smoke when their servers overload after all the people that play UO finally give up on it and play something decent.
Totally agree its the gameplay and the community. Both suck in UO. UO has not been good since before AoS. Now it is fighting with the same assholes over some pixelated crack of a weapon that you don't even understand fully what it does. Everything is chance and what used to be fun has since been ended or the fun dried up. The game play truely sucks. If you want to play a game where you spend more time remodeling your house than fighting in the field play SIMs Online (and we all know where that rates). If you want to play a game where it is fun to go fight in the fields then play WoW.
It is obvious to me that I see his point about the stuipidity of grinding. No leveler game has you kill the same monster over and over after you train up your skills on a GM golem or spend weeks taming or macro music and provocation or macro magery. Every single thing you do is to get to a point where you can kill the exact same creature (normally blood elementals) OVER AND OVER AND OVER. No leveler game has that sense of stupidity or grinding. Most of them are actually fun and you can actually see your character get better. In UO your character doesn't get anywhere. Also, if it is such a great game then why exactly have the last 2 expansions copied the hell out of WoW? Is it because EA has no imagination so they just copy the best game that is currently on the market?
I can tell you haven't played in 4 years because you actually think the content is great. The content hasn't been great since AoS. I love how people jump to the graphics aren't everything argument to defend UO. They fail to realise that WoW has much better game play than UO from crafting to fighting to adventuring to PvP and still has some damn nice graphics. The only thing UO has that beats WoW is housing, but SIMs has better housing and how many people play that online?
I've played 3 years and I have to say if they never introduced crap like powerscrolls and the AoS system I would still be playing. Back in the days of LBR it was a great game then they spent a year trashing it in an attempt to get newer players, but that just pissed off the veterans and the newer players want something with a lot more substance and better graphics so UO is basically dieing now.
Can tell you play UO. You are a perfect example of what the majority of the community is like. Funny how in WoW you get to go to dungeon after dungeon to kill mob after mob. You don't level your skills with macros to go farm Doom all for your entire game time or to go farm the same dungeon over and over and over. WoW might have its draw backs after you hit 60 and you get to do the same things over and over or farm the lower level dungeons on your own, but at least it doesn't have a community that sux as bad as UOs and it actually has tools for grouping while still allowing every character to solo.
World Of Warcraft is shit, if i have to be honest . I started this post by saying World Of Warcraft was nice, about eq2 im not sure. The Graphics from world of warcraft got me hooked but later on i realised this game wasnt so good afterall and i realised it's more a 'kiddies game' then an adult one, just look at there updates, fe: A travelling fearie! oeh and if you are around azeroth or durotor try to find them and u can get nice, sweet things and grind missions with shit xp! Also there is not alot to do at lv. 60 (which you get rapidly) mostl instances for lv.60 you will be done with in less then 2 months, nothing else to do besides that perhaps there is if you like lame PvP. there are a few harder and intresting instances such as MC but that's actually to hard. 40 people required to do it!
I have to agree with most of you that i said some wrong things, The Social and the Community counts twice more then the Graphics, if i refresh my memory and think back about my days in Dransik and Tibia my time i had there was twice as good then that i had in WoW! they are very low graphic games But Socialism and Community is what is the top priority in those two games game, About those two low graphic games i mentioned If people simple dont like you, people stronger then you then you are screwed you have to be social active to protect yourself and make friends to get famous around the people in World Of Wacract fe: it's not in about socialism and community World of warcraft EQUIPMENT is IMPORTANT and RANK which requires Selfishness and greedyness to obtain with a decent speed impossible for me (the nice casual gamer) to get because i am a nice person and most other people are child-full, immature and greedy. That game makes you greedy and selfish
I think my days in WoW will come to an end soon, i readed about Dark And light that it's gameplay will look similiar to Ultima online so i will try that game for sure! Note that i dont like UO is that the graphics dont appeal to me, but two games i loved with my full heart were very similiar to the Ultima Online: Tibia and Dransik.
Please forgive me for my ignorance and irritating attitude, Ultima Online is a wonderfull game for the people who like it and who has there own social community, friends, value to chat and do with in UO, like that i bet it would be a great game!
well tho this threed is U.O. and not W.O.W. i won't even comment on that crappy game but......
i've had a U.O. account for over 80+ months, sure its graphics and sound are way outta date.
it's game play,community, and companies service are very good tho, they even dropped production of U.O.X. just so they could keep plain ol' U.O. alive.
My key words here are 80 months plus, do you expect them to just revamp the entire game for the few new players that only care of graphics and sound.
Some day you will realize content and community are way more important than prettyness!
Are you sure you played UO cause UO doesn't have experience or quests (as far as I know...yet anyways). I can't argue on the graphics and sound though. However, I don't even like WoW graphics/sound. I think some of the best graphics ever were in DAoC and sound also.
However, I think the real problem with UO is that they started copying every game out there without even thinking about what it would do to the core customer base. After playing WoW I can tell you I am not looking forward to UO's next expansion. If I wanted to play a game with a questing system and a crafting system that required you to spend hours and group with players for hours on end just to fight over limited resources I would still be playing WoW. The fact that UO decided to do this as well just sickens and saddens me.
Tell UO that WoW is not a good game because they seem intent on copying it and naming the expansion UO:ML. I liked UO (I mean real UO before AoS) more than I have ever liked any game sinse then but with what UO:ML will do to the game I think I am more likely to go play DAoC again.
Lame PvP. Can't handle having battles last more than a minute huh? If you think WoW PvP is lame compared to UO PvP you must love playing your stealth archer in god mode. The problem with WoW PvP is that all the classes actually contribute and some of them just wipe the playing field to where it is no longer level. Shadow Priests mop up the rest of the player base before they can even be hit, but thats the way things go in WoW. However, you can still team up and kill the Shadow Priest first because you can actually see them and no matter what they don't kill you in under 10 hits. In UO you are normally dead in 3 hits against most any pvper.
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No one that plays this game after AoS gets hooked. Back before AoS it rocked. To bad OSI made AoS because that ruined the game for so many players including myself. It became all about getting the best items and no one even cares to play anymore other than to get the best items. It is easy to get burnt out pretty quickly.
DAoC is what now? 5 years old? They have some of the best graphics to date. They just updated their graphics. They redid everything. OSI has yet to update the graphics so it is OSI's fault that the graphics are out of date not the age of the game. They could easily update graphics and sound but instead they throw more ugly assed pixelated crack over and over.
Funny how if UO is the father of modern day games no game looks like it. I think UO's wife banged EQ behind its back because every single game out their after EQ looks like EQ and EQ looked nothing like UO. I guess the mother of all current games had some taste and dumped UO for EQ.
WoW isnt going anywhere. Unless its up in smoke when their servers overload after all the people that play UO finally give up on it and play something decent.
Totally agree its the gameplay and the community. Both suck in UO. UO has not been good since before AoS. Now it is fighting with the same assholes over some pixelated crack of a weapon that you don't even understand fully what it does. Everything is chance and what used to be fun has since been ended or the fun dried up. The game play truely sucks. If you want to play a game where you spend more time remodeling your house than fighting in the field play SIMs Online (and we all know where that rates). If you want to play a game where it is fun to go fight in the fields then play WoW.
It is obvious to me that I see his point about the stuipidity of grinding. No leveler game has you kill the same monster over and over after you train up your skills on a GM golem or spend weeks taming or macro music and provocation or macro magery. Every single thing you do is to get to a point where you can kill the exact same creature (normally blood elementals) OVER AND OVER AND OVER. No leveler game has that sense of stupidity or grinding. Most of them are actually fun and you can actually see your character get better. In UO your character doesn't get anywhere. Also, if it is such a great game then why exactly have the last 2 expansions copied the hell out of WoW? Is it because EA has no imagination so they just copy the best game that is currently on the market?
I can tell you haven't played in 4 years because you actually think the content is great. The content hasn't been great since AoS. I love how people jump to the graphics aren't everything argument to defend UO. They fail to realise that WoW has much better game play than UO from crafting to fighting to adventuring to PvP and still has some damn nice graphics. The only thing UO has that beats WoW is housing, but SIMs has better housing and how many people play that online?
I've played 3 years and I have to say if they never introduced crap like powerscrolls and the AoS system I would still be playing. Back in the days of LBR it was a great game then they spent a year trashing it in an attempt to get newer players, but that just pissed off the veterans and the newer players want something with a lot more substance and better graphics so UO is basically dieing now.
UO is the best MMO ive played
but i havent really played the game since AoS came out
Can tell you play UO. You are a perfect example of what the majority of the community is like. Funny how in WoW you get to go to dungeon after dungeon to kill mob after mob. You don't level your skills with macros to go farm Doom all for your entire game time or to go farm the same dungeon over and over and over. WoW might have its draw backs after you hit 60 and you get to do the same things over and over or farm the lower level dungeons on your own, but at least it doesn't have a community that sux as bad as UOs and it actually has tools for grouping while still allowing every character to solo.
World Of Warcraft is shit, if i have to be honest .
I started this post by saying World Of Warcraft was nice, about eq2 im not sure.
The Graphics from world of warcraft got me hooked but later on i realised this game wasnt so good afterall and i realised it's more a 'kiddies game' then an adult one, just look at there updates, fe: A travelling fearie! oeh and if you are around azeroth or durotor try to find them and u can get nice, sweet things and grind missions with shit xp!
Also there is not alot to do at lv. 60 (which you get rapidly) mostl instances for lv.60 you will be done with in less then 2 months, nothing else to do besides that perhaps there is if you like lame PvP. there are a few harder and intresting instances such as MC but that's actually to hard. 40 people required to do it!
I have to agree with most of you that i said some wrong things, The Social and the Community counts twice more then the Graphics, if i refresh my memory and think back about my days in Dransik and Tibia my time i had there was twice as good then that i had in WoW! they are very low graphic games But Socialism and Community is what is the top priority in those two games game, About those two low graphic games i mentioned If people simple dont like you, people stronger then you then you are screwed you have to be social active to protect yourself and make friends to get famous around the people in World Of Wacract fe: it's not in about socialism and community World of warcraft EQUIPMENT is IMPORTANT and RANK which requires Selfishness and greedyness to obtain with a decent speed impossible for me (the nice casual gamer) to get because i am a nice person and most other people are child-full, immature and greedy. That game makes you greedy and selfish
I think my days in WoW will come to an end soon, i readed about Dark And light that it's gameplay will look similiar to Ultima online so i will try that game for sure! Note that i dont like UO is that the graphics dont appeal to me, but two games i loved with my full heart were very similiar to the Ultima Online: Tibia and Dransik.
Please forgive me for my ignorance and irritating attitude, Ultima Online is a wonderfull game for the people who like it and who has there own social community, friends, value to chat and do with in UO, like that i bet it would be a great game!
WoW is the biggest hunk of crap ever. It is the same old thing that has been coming out since EQ. UO used to be a great game..kinda went down hill.
well tho this threed is U.O. and not W.O.W. i won't even comment on that crappy game but......
i've had a U.O. account for over 80+ months, sure its graphics and sound are way outta date.
it's game play,community, and companies service are very good tho, they even dropped production of U.O.X. just so they could keep plain ol' U.O. alive.
My key words here are 80 months plus, do you expect them to just revamp the entire game for the few new players that only care of graphics and sound.
Some day you will realize content and community are way more important than prettyness!
Are you sure you played UO cause UO doesn't have experience or quests (as far as I know...yet anyways). I can't argue on the graphics and sound though. However, I don't even like WoW graphics/sound. I think some of the best graphics ever were in DAoC and sound also.
However, I think the real problem with UO is that they started copying every game out there without even thinking about what it would do to the core customer base. After playing WoW I can tell you I am not looking forward to UO's next expansion. If I wanted to play a game with a questing system and a crafting system that required you to spend hours and group with players for hours on end just to fight over limited resources I would still be playing WoW. The fact that UO decided to do this as well just sickens and saddens me.
Tell UO that WoW is not a good game because they seem intent on copying it and naming the expansion UO:ML. I liked UO (I mean real UO before AoS) more than I have ever liked any game sinse then but with what UO:ML will do to the game I think I am more likely to go play DAoC again.
Lame PvP. Can't handle having battles last more than a minute huh? If you think WoW PvP is lame compared to UO PvP you must love playing your stealth archer in god mode. The problem with WoW PvP is that all the classes actually contribute and some of them just wipe the playing field to where it is no longer level. Shadow Priests mop up the rest of the player base before they can even be hit, but thats the way things go in WoW. However, you can still team up and kill the Shadow Priest first because you can actually see them and no matter what they don't kill you in under 10 hits. In UO you are normally dead in 3 hits against most any pvper.