Newsletter 8/23

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https://mailchi.mp/broadsword/uo-newsletter-16?e=d7e7179ad4

My take aways:

Our next TC1 M&G will be held on August 21st at 7pm ET in Castle Blackthorn 

FYI character copy is working to TC1.

The raffle stone is not there yet, But many are there waiting for it.  Amazing for a game that died 20 years and does a re death every month. 😂

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Skett said:

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Ooo ?

Short window. Don't miss it.

Oh yay another nontent TOT. I'm sure the players that use 3rd party clients that auto farm stuff and RMT will be thrilled, devaluing the stuff so much us regular players can't even sell the items to make a few GP.

Account bound rewards when?

username said:

Oh yay another nontent TOT. I'm sure the players that use 3rd party clients that auto farm stuff and RMT will be thrilled, devaluing the stuff so much us regular players can't even sell the items to make a few GP.

Account bound rewards when?

I guess you do not remember UO pre Age of Shadows when every body wore GM made armor and weps.  What are you thinking that is going to be allowed for you to bring back from NL once a year to the prodo shards.  Talk about trying to tear *** down before you even know **** about it.

username said:

Lord_Frodo said:

username said:

Oh yay another nontent TOT. I'm sure the players that use 3rd party clients that auto farm stuff and RMT will be thrilled, devaluing the stuff so much us regular players can't even sell the items to make a few GP.

Account bound rewards when?

I guess you do not remember UO pre Age of Shadows when every body wore GM made armor and weps.  What are you thinking that is going to be allowed for you to bring back from NL once a year to the prodo shards.  Talk about trying to tear shit down before you even know shit about it.

You high or something? Wtf are you going on about? We've had plenty of ToTs to know what they're going to be like. I made zero comments on NL. Learn to read dumbass.

This is Mesannas favorite thing toss a bone after months of neglect then watch us fight over petty stuff that might not happen 

Now if they make all the tokuno monsters somehow undead that'd be fun

I wish I could have bet money that username and McDougal would have 0 positive things to say and only complaints about a newsletter, upcoming events and beta signup for NL.

LilyGrace said:

I wish I could have bet money that username and McDougal would have 0 positive things to say and only complaints about a newsletter, upcoming events and beta signup for NL.

So we continue to suggest that expecting communication and accountability from the developers makes us negative? 

Grimbeard said:

LilyGrace said:

I wish I could have bet money that username and McDougal would have 0 positive things to say and only complaints about a newsletter, upcoming events and beta signup for NL.

So we continue to suggest that expecting communication and accountability from the developers makes us negative? 

When you keep doing it 30 seconds after they put out communication, YES.

I'm disappointed this is a short lived raffle stone. I used to get into these things because of a long dedicated history of alpha and beta testing Origin/EA products.

Pawain said:

Grimbeard said:

LilyGrace said:

I wish I could have bet money that username and McDougal would have 0 positive things to say and only complaints about a newsletter, upcoming events and beta signup for NL.

So we continue to suggest that expecting communication and accountability from the developers makes us negative? 

When you keep doing it 30 seconds after they put out communication, YES.

I gave honest truthful feedback 

 😂 

Per the newsletter, since it's now ok with Mesanna to purchase accounts, can we sell them here now? @Mariah

Mariah said:

No, sorry. Still against ToS.

I could be wrong, but my understanding is more along the lines of accepting it has happened and trying to make it safer for the recipient than actually approving of the sales.

That’s such a copout.  You don’t get to take stolen merchandise into the police department to have them validate it’s your now.

They are publicly declaring that they will validate the new owner.  How could the transfer be against the ToS if they are transferring the ownership.  I mean, we do have a bit of history of people talking out both sides of their mouth, but this is a real stretch.

Mariah said:

No, sorry. Still against ToS.

I could be wrong, but my understanding is more along the lines of accepting it has happened and trying to make it safer for the recipient than actually approving of the sales.

Do we realize the insanity of this statement?  Are illegal clients going to be handled the same?  Dare i suggest some rapid response from the developers is needed  

I can only operate within the ToS of the forum, and rule 9 says 'no cash sales'.

Mariah said:

I can only operate within the ToS of the forum, and rule 9 says 'no cash sales'.

I didn't mean to stir the pot. She made it look like it was legal now so thought i'd ask before i did it. 

Mariah said:

I can only operate within the ToS of the forum, and rule 9 says 'no cash sales'.

Based on the news letter it should probably be amended to “cash sales not supported”.

LilyGrace said:

I wish I could have bet money that username and McDougal would have 0 positive things to say and only complaints about a newsletter, upcoming events and beta signup for NL.

Those two certainly go overboard, but even the average UO player is starting to get frustrated with the lack of communication. Do you believe this newsletter clarifies what is happening in UO after six months of silence? 

1) Recap of the BBQ
2) Main topic of account transfer which hasn't even been brought up as a community topic
3) Vauge update regarding NL with no further information or details of what NL is other than a seasonal version of UO. For six months of work, there was no new information on what to expect
4) Actioned accounts for last month. I don't think this is anything but filler information, but if we provide it, where are the numbers for the entire last six months?

To be blunt, this was written by someone that viewed it as a chore to be done as quickly as possible and not a means of engaging.

Karyn said:

LilyGrace said:

I wish I could have bet money that username and McDougal would have 0 positive things to say and only complaints about a newsletter, upcoming events and beta signup for NL.

Those two certainly go overboard, but even the average UO player is starting to get frustrated with the lack of communication. Do you believe this newsletter clarifies what is happening in UO after six months of silence? 

1) Recap of the BBQ
2) Main topic of account transfer which hasn't even been brought up as a community topic
3) Vauge update regarding NL with no further information or details of what NL is other than a seasonal version of UO. For six months of work, there was no new information on what to expect
4) Actioned accounts for last month. I don't think this is anything but filler information, but if we provide it, where are the numbers for the entire last six months?

To be blunt, this was written by someone that viewed it as a chore to be done as quickly as possible and not a means of engaging.

It took years before i went overboard!

https://uo.com/2023/08/14/ultima-online-new-legacy-alpha-sign-ups-open-today/

Grimbeard said:

It took years before i went overboard!

I completely get it because of my own incremental frustration with the lack of communication. 

At least we got a name for a fall event.  Treasures of the Feudal Lands.  No real information about it at all, but a name . . .

Stingard said:

At least we got a name for a fall event.  Treasures of the Feudal Lands.  No real information about it at all, but a name . . .

You need more info?  Lets see, you kill stuff in the designated area, get drops, turn the drops in for rewards.  Like all the Dynamic Dungeons have been.  When it is close to opening, you can see the drops on TC or Origin if you need a sneak peek.

Pawain said:

Stingard said:

At least we got a name for a fall event.  Treasures of the Feudal Lands.  No real information about it at all, but a name . . .

You need more info?  Lets see, you kill stuff in the designated area, get drops, turn the drops in for rewards.  Like all the Dynamic Dungeons have been.  When it is close to opening, you can see the drops on TC or Origin if you need a sneak peek.

I hope it's like the original tot where you can kill anything 

I don't, I hate that.  It's a multiplayer game.  We would all fit nicely in the Dojo.

Pawain said:

Stingard said:

At least we got a name for a fall event.  Treasures of the Feudal Lands.  No real information about it at all, but a name . . .

You need more info?  Lets see, you kill stuff in the designated area, get drops, turn the drops in for rewards.  Like all the Dynamic Dungeons have been.  When it is close to opening, you can see the drops on TC or Origin if you need a sneak peek.

They are not going to give advance notice if you need things.   No one in the software development world would do that. Gabby will have a thousand of whatever by day 2 of knowing.

Involving other templates would be nice. 

Pawain said:

They are not going to give advance notice if you need things.   No one in the software development world would do that. Gabby will have a thousand of whatever by day 2 of knowing.

Involving other templates would be nice. 

Here are the credits for Diablo IV.  Over 8000 people takes 37 minutes to show them all.


They also did not post teasers.

Maybe if UO had 3000 people working on it, we would hear more.

Stingard said:

A ton of things can be done like that with smart design, and they have shown that they could do it in the past with their existing team. 

@Stingard - Keep in mind that the Khuldan & Sorcerer events were pre dynamic events. Ever since dynamic events were introduced, it's been pretty cookie cutter on what to expect with the only exception being where/what (where it's located and what extra monsters we kill). Personally I don't mind the same old ToT style event but given how cookie cutter they are, I think we should get them at minimum twice a year but really more like 3-4 times. 

That said, I get where you are coming from and I agree there seemed to be more variation coming from the Dev team in the past compared to now but supposedly we have NL to blame for that. Once again though I go back to running the same dynamic ToT a few times a year... they aren't reinventing the wheel to run these so it would give people some variation of where/what they hunt while giving a few new rewards each time. But here we are... not getting a new dynamic event until October which is 4 months from when the last one ended with absolutely nothing else different to do. The level of effort on Prod shards does seem to be at an all time low. 

keven2002 said:

 Personally I don't mind the same old ToT style event but given how cookie cutter they are, I think we should get them at minimum twice a year but really more like 3-4 times. 

I agree.  If they aren't adding new content, they can give us the cookie cutter events running in different places, or even reprise the old events like Khaldun, and Sorcerer"s.  A person can only run Roof or Underwater so many times . .. . .

Stingard said:

keven2002 said:

 Personally I don't mind the same old ToT style event but given how cookie cutter they are, I think we should get them at minimum twice a year but really more like 3-4 times. 

I agree.  If they aren't adding new content, they can give us the cookie cutter events running in different places, or even reprise the old events like Khaldun, and Sorcerer"s.  A person can only run Roof or Underwater so many times . .. . .

Simply updating older items Simply removing doubloon cap simply adding new  rewards to black market and monger quest or ostrich management...

Grimbeard said:

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Simply updating older items Simply removing doubloon cap simply adding new  rewards to black market and monger quest or ostrich management...

It does all seem like low hanging fruit. 

Simply updating the reward list is low hanging fruit, just a low res graphic and some specs and tada, its done in less than 24 hours.