From the Producer - 24 Oct 2007

**kingtony** · 25th October 2007, 06:54 AM

Kr Would Have Been That Diamond In The Sky For Them If They Only Kept A Decent Team Working On It And Not Having Most Of The Imput Coming From Gamers , And Dont Get Me Wrong The Team That Worked Ion It Was Good But Not Nearly Enough People

**Tabbitha** · 25th October 2007, 07:30 AM

I started to hear alarm bells when some of the 'old' team left for new pastures earlier this year,tbh,but persuaded myself U was just being pessimistic

**Silverfoot** · 25th October 2007, 07:58 AM

Microelf wrote it on Stratics better than I could. And I agree with the corporate aspect presented in another post quoted in a post above.

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my worthless thoughts...

It has been stated BY EA that UO has paid for itself over and over.. its cheap to operate.....

The developers that have worked on UO have come and gone many times over thru the years, the vision has been different with practically every producer that has held the UO reins....

UO has not been a priority for a good number of years in the EA stable of properties..

What does this news mean to me? It means there will be developers and designers and coders and such being cross trained in the different games

The what ifs are present or rather the what are they going to do... seems a number here wish to see the end coming... yet again to point out we here do not equal any way the largest number of players of UO...nothing official has been said... sources within a company are just as likely from someone that is pissy in what is being done and presents information biased .. they may have provided sound information in the past but that does not preclude them from tainting later information slipped out

UO very well may finally get on a track and stay on it instead of switching every mile or so to a different track...

Those that do move to VA (in my view) will be the ones that are dedicated to UO, UO is not just a job to those

Id rather have a small team that has a passion than a huge one that sees it just as a job... Id rather a small server network filled with players with a passion than a huge one filled with its just a game players.

Until the pronouncement of death appears from EA on UO Im not going to worry or give it a thought and will keep enjoying the world my toons live in....death is one of the givens in the world... its not IF but when.....we all die sooner or later

Shady Dealer · 25th October 2007, 08:28 AM

Agreed

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I doubt many of those folks will make the move, this area is expensive and a very high cost of living.

When the cost of living is higher in Virgina then Cali, the world is coming to an end...

**Silverfoot** · 25th October 2007, 11:59 AM

Just playing with CNN Money cost of living comparison tool

Quote:

Salary in San Francisco CA:
$75,000
Comparable salary in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria DC-VA:
$61,933.84

If you move from San Francisco CA to Washington-Arlington-Alexandria DC-VA...

Groceries will cost: 23.29% less
Housing will cost: 21.785% less
Utilities will cost: 33.185% more
Transportation will cost: 5.251% less
Healthcare will cost: 10.453% less

**Snugglebunny** · 25th October 2007, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Adri

I have a mental image of the UO team getting a set of tiny cubicles stuck in the basement somewhere, while the other games have huge offices with a view.

My company just did a partial reconfigure of some of their cubes and we have more work upcoming. I will have to check the drawings out. What i did see was some pretty swank offices though.

Cerwin Vega · 25th October 2007, 12:28 PM

Whats next outsourcing to china.

**kingtony** · 25th October 2007, 01:12 PM

adri said it right about the small cubicals for our uo team

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