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Two words: Extremely Impressed.

Keep this calibur of lore and intrigue coming. I enjoyed the trial immensely.

Anyone agree, disagree?

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I really enjoyed the storyline and the dialogue. It was "just long enough" to keep me interested and not too long to make me bored. A couple of the characters were very funny.

However.

The next time they do one of these, they need to make sure they:
1) Don't allow ANY spellcasting of ANY kind
2) Don't allow pet summoning.

That was quite annoying to those of us trying to follow along in our Journals. Sigh.


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Whoever came up with this idea is brilliant, and one of the best staffers EA has to date, that will actually take some game mechanics, bend and twist them, and produce something that we, the players, can enjoy.

Hats off to you, sir or maam. Look forward to more.


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It really does feel "new" - part animated history lesson, part cutscene, part banksitting. Depending on how much dev time it takes to code these things up, I think the devs should think about scripting up a collection of little plays for the playhouses in various cities based on this mechanic. Once a week or once a month have a gathering point where you can watch a story and party up with strangers to have a running commentary ... I think there's a lot of potential here.

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I disagree.

The content of the trial may have been well though out and presented.

However, given that this entire 'event' was little more than an in-game powerpoint presentation, why in the world could it not have been put in the form of a once-off 'quest' that each player could sit through during the course of this week, rather than something that had to be attended at a specific date and time, by a limited number of people?

A job's a job, and the devs get paid regardless, but I can't help thinking there's not much job satisfaction in doing all that work, having a handful of people see it, and then *poof* it's gone forever, leaving many dissatisfied customers behind.

So 'A' for content, 'F' for implementation.
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That's a little harsh. I thought they did a great job with all the characters, movement and speech. Even had a couple breaks. Not sure I would want to sit thru another hour long court case but this one was really pretty interesting.

Before the trial I thought Ricardo was guilty, now I'm not so sure. The trial itself has changed our perceptions. I say good job guys.


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Draconi UO Designer


Yeah, that would be terrible if it was only seen once and was then gone forever



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I'm deeply impressed by this event.

I like of course the contents of the event, however not only that this event contains the deep content surpised me, but also that devs had translated this contents into Japanese supposedly in a very short term and told Japanese team how to turn on the event in order for also Japanese players to be able to enjoy fully this event.

Thank you very much for these excellent works!

And it is very interesting that all the media of websites, in-game events, essay contest give us "reasons to login" in harmony as Darkscribe once wrote in his statement.

The Court of Truth in Yew on Asuka shard was nearly full of audience in half an hour after the trial began. See the SS below:




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I recorded the whole thing. Uploaded in 4 parts here