Philly Townhall info thread

[Hawkwind]

"We saw an ice elemental, which looks freakin awesome. He looks like his name should be "pokey" because he has 2 rather long, pokey arms. Sorry for the poor humor."



T-1000 FTW! lol. (terminator 2 anyone?)

[Mercedes]

Thank you for the update

[Nevaeh]

at first i was not too keen on the "over haul" of our beloved game, but the more i see of it, the more i start looking forward to it. i'm glad that they have seemed to keep the same sound effects though:eusa_dance: just wish i would get a beta invite

[Petra Fyde]

since we didn't get a screenshot in this week's 5oF I've done my poor best to create one from the video. So here it is for your amusement:

[Adri]

I have to agree. The more they work on it, the better it is getting, thank heaven. I wasn't looking forward to it either, now I can't wait!

[Mic]

I think its great, It will be a great improvment and hopefully if things pan out. More players, more content! more of everything really.... Time will tell.. in the mean time I want a beta slot!!!!

[Hawkwind]

This client keeps getting pushed back further and further. with each townhall meeting, the redundant words of discouragement can be heard "Uhm thats not in the game yet", im wondering if the spring deadline will even be met at all.

Based on the original release schedule the client is at least a month behind, additionally I still have yet to see any official info on stygian abyss, short of a FAQ.

Is it also safe to assume that SA is way behind its summer release time?

We have been yammering on about this client for quite some time now, it is starting to feel as if the UO dev team is intentionally holding back for some unknown reason. Why do we need to have 3 seperate beta tests? It impedes production to work in this manner. If the beta was kicked off as open to the public on test shards from the get-go chances are this client would be ready for release by now. Considering its free, and there are alot of UO players without active accounts waiting for this client to release, the only way EA is going to see a benefit to this clients release is if its actually released.

I have a sneaky suspicion that the progress is being slowed down to accommodate the town hall meetings. If this is true we can probably expect a release somewhere around august 07...

[Ally]

I don't think they're behind at all. Spring is until June.

I think Stygian Abyss, they'll be releasing for the 10th anniv. So summer, around September.

Just my 2 cents.

[Silverfoot]

The date for release of KR was late spring, spring arrives about June 22nd or so. The only thing that has been pushed back so far is the tanking of the 3d client. I believe they do that so there isn't a LOT of time between the closing of 3d and open beta

SA, it was said would be released late summer, once again summer ends late Sept, which is also the 10th anniversary.

From a marketing point of view, why wouldn't you want to make a significant (largest dungeon ever) expansion in time for the anniversary? Thge timing seems just right for that.

The release estimates were originally fron EA/Mythic, it's IMHO on the anniversary thing.

~ Se'an

[Hawkwind]

I have to agree silverfoot, its highly likely that SA will be released for the 10th anniversary. It is also likely they will do a release similar to ML and have an anniversary package released a month or so later, that contains the new client, and new expansion, along with some little freebee anniversary items.

This seems to be the trend, more so than the actual games release on that date. This way they can sell 2 copies of the same game within a short period of time.

Also as far as the client being a month behind, this is true, and can be shown by the fact that the next stage of beta is coming with the abolishment of the 3d client, they are delaying this because they arnt ready for the next wave of beta no doubt.

Every day they delay that patch, is another day they are behind in production.