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Legal Issues with Free Servers and client.

phunkymunkeyphunkymunkey Member Posts: 83
in Ultima Online

I've been disenchanted for a long (years) time with mmos in general.  I've been invited to play the UO old school way-the way I remember and enjoyed.  But I want to know the legal issues before I go DL all kinds of stuff and dive in.  Beyond going directly to EA, I haven't found anyone who can give me a definitive answer.

Anyone?

Permadeath and environmental challenges are the next great step in the evolution of MMORPGs. Only through true adversity will one feel accomplished. Only in truly knowing you can die will true adversity present itself.

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  • superhero13superhero13 Member Posts: 170

    Stop thinking about it and just go play.

    BTW Permadeath is a horrible idea.

  • phunkymunkeyphunkymunkey Member Posts: 83

    "Permadeath is a horrible idea."

     

    In ToA you will get 100 or so lives.  Take the training wheels off and try being a real hero.  Just try it.  Maybe warm up with Diablo II Hardcore.  Otherwise its just a "time for real life<time in front of the computer=get my character more uber" type of equation.  At least for the most part.

    And if you are all about 3-6 hours a day at the comp. to ride the exp. ladder, go to it.  But not me.

    And thanks for the informative response on the legal issues...

     

     

     

    Permadeath and environmental challenges are the next great step in the evolution of MMORPGs. Only through true adversity will one feel accomplished. Only in truly knowing you can die will true adversity present itself.

  • garrison13garrison13 Member Posts: 97

    The software required to play free shards is a non-approved 3rd party programme and can bring the same penalties as other progs used for macro-ing etc. afaik.

  • MalakaiMalakai Member Posts: 147
    I think some of these free server sites have links to the UO Age of Shadows client that you can download.  You can legally download that one I believe, because they offered the software for free on back for a free trial.  I remember several bigger free server sites offering it.  As far as the perma death idea, I hope some mmorpgs offer it as an option.  Maybe have a special server or two with it.  I hear that Vanguard is toying with the idea of doing an "ironman" server which would be perma death.  I saw them mention it in their faq.  The majority of their servers would be normal ones of course.  While I would not want to play all of my characters in a perma death environment, I would like to do it once and a while for the excitement of it.  It would make the game more realistic because you would have to heavily weigh the pros and cons of every dangerous encounter.

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