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I personally couldn't care less if UO ends up on Steam and I really bugs me when some one decides they speak for the entire "community".
We already have #2; it's called Siege Perilous.
I am the opposite. The CC is damn ugly one. Whenever I use it for more than a few minutes my eyes feel like someone pulled them out and started squeezing them.
1. No EA put its foot down on Steam. As I read the EA post they are working on a system like Steam on their side.. who knows if that's the big news.
2. Last I heard at a meet and greet was no new shard. We have a lot of underpopulated as it is.
3. (asked by Soldahouse) As I have explained many times the only way to make a viable Classic Client was lost in the move from Redwoods shore to VA. The shipment of materials from their offices were sorted by a staffer and the original workbook was shredded, code disk and all. This made Bleak very sad as he feels it was lost on his watch... He had no idea the staffer would sort the office shipment to compact the boxes.
Before you say well take it form the shard set up we have now... Cant. You can not back track off all the publishes from the matrix without destroying the base program.. too much of the original coding was changed to allow this to work.
Siege is the closest you will get to the old classic game..
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
"Electronic Arts has unveiled plans to return to Steam in late 2019, reversing its former split with Valve's digital PC storefront almost one decade prior...
https://www.windowscentral.com/list-ea-pc-games-coming-steam
"Additionally, EA announced plans to bring its EA Access subscription service to Steam starting next year,..."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/29/20937055/ea-games-steam-access-subscription-service-pc-storefront-jedi-fallen-order-sales
Or, from EA's own statement:
"Electronic Arts and Valve have partnered to put EA games into the hands of the players on Steam. Starting next spring, EA Access—our ever-growing subscription service powered by great games and member benefits—will be making its way to Steam. EA Access is the first and only gaming subscription service available on Steam, and the fourth platform featuring an EA subscription.
The partnership kicks off with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order™ launching on November 15—and available for pre-order today. In the coming months, players on Steam will also be able to play other major titles like The Sims™ 4 and Unravel™ Two. Multiplayer games—like Apex Legends™, FIFA 20, and Battlefield™ V—will become available next year, and players on both Origin™ and Steam will have the ability to play together."
https://www.ea.com/news/ea-and-valve-partnership
And finally, here is a pic of EA's page on Steam, showing Jedi Fallen Order, released Nov. 15 2019.
EA is already back on Steam.
I definitely can see alot of people mad though at getting rid of it. It took me years to get my friend to switch to the ec. It works good now though, and runs on low end computers, even cell phone computers that use the snap dragon 850 which isn't even a high end phone cpu any more.
As for steam I dono if it will do anything, either way if all they did was just release it there. It didnt help ryzom at all, or everquest. I cant say I ever met some one that said I only use steam to find pc games. I have heard people say they refuse to use steam before, but never that some one only uses steam. So it isn't like it is releasing on a new platform or anything, like on xbox or playstation which some people only have those, or google play.
I think mobile ulitma online would get alot more people, considering there isn't to much competition. You got black desert,runscape, and albion really. Albion is the closest out of those to Uo, but it is still not UO. None of those have what ulitma online has, especially when it comes to taming. The cash shop is already like alot of other mobile games anyways.
I have no idea how hard it would be to convert it to work on a cell phone, other than it works emulated in windows 10 on a snap dragon 850, and that runescape did it so it works on pc and mobile together on both old school and new runescape. No idea how much that cost runescape to do that, I am sure it wasn't cheap, but if it is UO goal to reach new people mobile is definitely the way to do it. There are way way way more people that have cell phones then have steam. The only thing would be the user interface, which would have to be switched to click to move, or like a joystick and move with the keys. The EC though is modern enough I think to be used on a mobile phone, just would have to make the hot bars the right size.
And the EC can be modified to get more repetitions.
You can combat it and you can put measures in place to minimise it, but you can't 100% stop it.
Anyone expecting the devs to achieve that is asking the impossible. Help them minimise it by telling them, in emails if posting here isn't appropriate, any plans you have heard of to get around these current measures. Help them instead of berating them for failing to achieve what no one else can.
I believe the correct email address is uo@broadsword.com
Cheating is a drug to some gamers/people. It gives them a high when they break the walls and get in or do something that they know is wrong but the thrill is so great they have to do it.
An acquaintance of my son's now has no online device, no computer, phone with any way to get on line.
Even his TV has to be non online, no router or service cable etc.. it sound like a made up story but I have met the guy, (We had to shut off and cover the computer screens when he comes over) and he explains that he was so addicted to hacking this was his only way to stay clean. He said there is a help group he attends and he is far from being alone.
This does not give the players who do so the right to hurt the game. Yes it hurts but is far from something seen till its too late. This hurts all who come to play UO.
I'd also like to add that we all know things change rapidly, even (especially?) corporate planning. So although EA put one game on Steam, we'll have to wait and see how much they follow through with those initial plans.
Albertus Magnus: Does the biggest and boldest endeavor mean the opening from UO on the steam plattform?
Mesanna: no