In my opinion EA needs to make an Ultima Online game but make it offline with a LAN/internet feature. Make it so that everything is customizable. Maps, buildings, houses, spawn, UI, items, characters, pvp/pvm systems, gaining systems, stats, skills, everything. Let people make their worlds, their own armor, monsters, etc. and set it as their own server, don't even make it an authorization thing, just do it.

That will give people what they want, so paying players can basically do what ______ shards are doing now and run things the way they wish, take out what they wish, add what they wish. Then they have no one to complain to but each other and nothing but themselves to blame, and no more problems with EA to deal with. Make sure there is a *good* security feature so that people don't cheat/hack easily. Sell that game. You could call it... Ultima Limites or something like that.

Fire/move everyone(and train your employees better) that works with UO now onto a game that doesn't have 10 years of catch-up to do and have them focus on some other up to date game that will make you more money than continuing to fuss with UO could ever do. Sell the UO customizeable game, make money, keep UO fans happy, sever the ties, and never hear complaining from them again.

*feels all at peace now*

*blinks*




That...





makes...





perfect sense.

I would play that game.

They can use the catch phrase "You create worlds" or "challenge nothing"

Sorry, I just have been upset lately with UO and I needed to vent.

I think it would be PERFECT for folks like myself, who have no internet access in the desert to play, but would still like to play within a UO world. I have been trying to find a game that fits some of the same traits as UO or WoW for offline play, and have yet to find one, so I play Madden and guitar hero to pass the time...

Its a brilliant idea in concept - totally. and *coughs* well ...

However, if such a thing did exist then surely it would be hard to maintain a large enough player base to make it worthwhile going through all the hassle of using this new licensed UO World Creator?

I think it would be wonderful ot make ones own UO world and have a multiplayer aspect to it - hell you coudl have quests, seers, city invasions where the bridges got destroyed and buidlings got destroyed. REAL pvp battles where the winners could decide which strategic element of a city to pull down ...

It would make it perfect for role playing.

I totally dont understand the point of something like that!

To what ends? to allow people who want to play the best MMORPG as just an RPG? Why? What is in it for EA, apart from poor sales of a 10 year old game. I'd much rather they focused on creating a better gaming experience for UO, instead of thinking of UO as a product.

Bring back Seers!

Ned - Imagine you could build a wall around your province of Vespenland and populate it with low level NPCs dressed as guards [or high level NPCs or whatever].

Imagine you could have all the current Role player base online there but with a strict feluccan rule set.

Imagine you could actually have a dynamic online game and environement which changed accordign to who actually had the power rather than making things up?

Sure you *could* make it a role play only thing for all the role players of Europa for example.

It would still effectively be a MMO but under the control of a player with real passion for the game and an understanding of role play ...

Rather than a corporate death burger eating ...

No offense, but it seems to me that they think of UO just as a product at this point. I am not talking about the devs. I am talking about the higher ups. They appear to merely not think of it as a main game anymore. I mean, I haven't seen it in too many main stores shelves, I haven't seen common or widespread advertisement, and I don't know of the average person that has even heard of it. That being said, I would much rather have both really, but all the same it is a 10 year old game the higher ups seem to treat as a product. I am really suprised KR was given as a gift, and while I am thankful for the gift, I also think UO has had a slow eating cancer for sometime now, and short of major treatment can't be cured. Having something like this is not out of reason (it's just like any other game that people mod themselves, and customize).

All the same it is not just like any other game. It was and it still is in a place all it's own, better than any other game in concept, lacking in execution from years of restaffing and changes. It's evolved, devolved and mutated. Imagine a UO where everything is customizable (kind of like simcity/sims [or whatever] on fantasy crack- I would call it medieval fantasy, but somehow it's way beyond that).

I am merely saying it seems that it has been a product for some time. Give us as players a customizable UO we can buy, and let us control it (call it a parting gift). Those that like aspects ABC can make that world, those the like DEF can make that world, and those that want something complete new can make their world.

Finally, again, sever the ties. Maybe make a new 3D game like Ultima in a *coughs* WoW type engine *coughs*, and make "uber loot" selling that. An unrestricted Ultima in a "WoW" setting would blow any other game out of the water, make lots of money, and bring in completely new players, old players, and probably gank a lot from other companies. I would think any company/corporation with half a brain and a little bit of guts to risk it would be racing to do something like this, but I understand the contentment and security of milking a 10 year old game for all it's worth. *poke* You higher ups getting this?

I know I sound like I am complaining, but I like to think of it as constructive criticism with a little sour lemon added to wake some people up. UO could always be around, sure, but that doesn't mean it will ever be healthy and vibrant again.

AMO ULTIMA ULTIMAE EST SUMMA
-Latin for "I love Ultima to the last; it is the highest [game]!" (or something to that effect.)