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[Interview] General: Broadsword Online: What It Means For UO & DAOC
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Last week, EA and Mythic announced a partnership agreement with indie studio Broadsword Online Gaming to take over the development side of both Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot. We caught up with the team to find out what that means for two of the genre's most beloved titles.
Read more of Garrett Fuller's Broadsword Online: What It Means For UO & DAOC.
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"We are a natural fit to partner with Electronic Arts and with Paul Barnett"
Well, that's all I needed to read...
Time to abandon ship.
Anyway, I'll keep my eye on this and see if it's just pointless re-branding because Mythic is maybe going the way of the Dodo or if they actually intend to make new content for the games. Perhaps they have F2P models in store for DAoC and UO, although you have to question the feasibility of it.
Mythic hasn't existed in any measurable form for years and its certainly not the Mythic we knew before they were digested by EA. It's just a name now, nothing more.
The sad thing is they only have to look at the popularity of CU kickstarter to see a lot of former DAoC players miss their beloved game and many would return to the fold if they ever put any measurable capital into the game and drove it forward.
Shuffling DAoC onto a tiny indie developer really means they have no plans to do anything but keep the status quo and keep milking their ageing former prize cow for some time to come.
Oddly enough that is actualy pleasantly reassuring considering the fate of games such as Warhammer, SWG etc, to know DAoC and UO will be around for a while to come still is quite a nostalgic boon.
Expresso gave me a Hearthstone beta key.....I'm so happy
DAoC - Excalibur & Camlann
err so i never played the game at any stage but what your suggesting is..
For the company to hide everything you hold dear to your nostalgia behind a paywall?
Because really, who is gona pay for cosmetics with graphics like that?
On the other hand the idea of a subscriptionless UO interests me, But like i said i dont think fp2 will be worth it because it would "break" what fun is in the game.
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B2P/F2P are "Paywalls" that wrench your wallet open in order for you to pay MORE for what P2P gives you with a small fee of 14.95/month for unlimited access.
P2P > B2P/F2P
B2P/F2P is a scam when it comes to MMORPGs. Especially in a game as competitive as UO and DAOC.
Both are in my top 5 of all time, but I really dislike the new skill system setup for UO, the samarai stuff, and I doubt they do anything that will make that better. They were going to make a more classic server, last time I played it, but they decided not to.
I haven't played DAoC in a long time, was too much boting and other things. Them doing severe class changes over a year into release made me leave, it got tiring, still was a great experience though. I had gone back and played a little, but not as much as I have UO.
Will have to keep an eye on things, but I don't see enough changing to make me want to go back.
EA, Rob Denton, and Paul Barnett are the people who gutted Mythic, sank WAR, and then kept Mark Jacobs from getting the rights to DAoC back.
They are scum, plain and simple. Money grubbing corporate scum. EA Louse touched a little bit on just how bad they are, but its only the tip of the iceberg. I'd rather have the current, half dead DAoC than give these fuckers money.
When Jacobs starting putting together the DAoC Origins server, to bring it all back to pre ToA, EA cut the cord on the project and shuffled everyone over to save WAR and SWTOR.
You sound confused. P2P is a paywall. P2W is a paywall. F2P is not a paywall. F2P will always be the most consumer friendly with B2P following it.
What you and the devs don't realize is that DAoC needs a big population to be fun. More people = more fun. F2P or B2P with a cosmetic / non-P2W cash shop would be the perfect business model for it.
DAoC - Excalibur & Camlann
Nevermind my question. I just read this on the DAoC website:
Broadsword Online Games will partner with EA’s Mythic Entertainment to operate, support and develop Dark Age of Camelot on EA’s behalf. Electronic Arts will continue to provide billing and account services through its Origin™ portal. Broadsword and Electronic Arts will work closely together to ensure a bright future for Dark Age of Camelot.
Mythic makes free to play mobile games now, like Ultima Forever and the horrible Dungeon Keeper game.
I'm wondering if EA looked at the success of the CU Kickstarter and the hype from the old DAoC players and realized they they need to do something to prevent Mark Jacobs from stealing the rest of their player base... and Broadsword is their answer.. I know, it might be a bit far reaching.
Yeah, I have 0 interest in anything that Denton is involved with.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
Dark Age of Camelot
----ITS A TRAP!!!----
Best bet, is forget all the B2P/F2P crap, and make it $4.99 a month. I can almost guarantee they ll get 10 times more people then they have now @ $14.99 a month.
Yeah the dude sounds like a real piece of shit. I wouldn't give him a dollar for anything he puts out.
Here is a TL;DR for their DAOC plans:
- update the daoc websites like camelot herald
- update the UI to attract more users
- implement a RVR revamp patch (which is currently live on the test server
- maintain close relations with the community through the forums
Here is a link to the current planned revamp changes:
http://www.darkageofcamelot.com/article/patch-1115-comes-pendragon
http://www.gamerevolution.com/manifesto/ea-artist-soon-to-be-laid-off-burns-ea-management-2803
Fuck you, Rob.
While this direction for DAOC is more promising than it was a few months ago, the fact that it's gotten this bad under the leadership of Mythic and EA says it all. I'm more interested in waiting for CU, which I'm a backer of.
ESO's AvA and the new WoW expanion's open world pvp zone should hold me over till then.
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QFT. Not a single dime from me.
That still makes it Pay to Play....