New Legacy still a thing?
Back in September 2020, Mesanna and crew announced the next biggest thing for UO...since the announcement we have barely had any information about it. The last (that I being 4 months ago with information we already knew and some random screen shots in Jan newsletter.
The purpose given for the NL was to bring new players and bring excitement to "relive experiences", IF I was a new player hearing about this announcement in 2020, you can get basic info on the website and then that's it. To me seemed like someone dropped the ball, why announce something and then rarely give updates, offer testing, or even a hint of availability then you have already lost my attention.
If anyone has a date, I haven't seen one so thanks ahead of time.
@Kyronix @Bleak @Mesanna
The purpose given for the NL was to bring new players and bring excitement to "relive experiences", IF I was a new player hearing about this announcement in 2020, you can get basic info on the website and then that's it. To me seemed like someone dropped the ball, why announce something and then rarely give updates, offer testing, or even a hint of availability then you have already lost my attention.
If anyone has a date, I haven't seen one so thanks ahead of time.
@Kyronix @Bleak @Mesanna
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Richard Garriott has mentioned he has tried reaching out to EA a couple of times about making a deal with the Ultima/UO license, but EA doesn't really have any interest. Kind of wish EA would just let Richard Garriott purchase the rights to Ultima again. It's gotta be better than what we have now.
I think he could handle his old property just fine.
If NL is still a thing, the last monthly... er periodic newsletter said they were aiming for a mid-year Alpha (June / July). If that's the case, I would expect a monthly... er periodic newsletter to be coming out in the next week or so with an update of on-time or delayed.
That is creepy as hell! Why would anyone want to bid on that! Where's the vomiting emoji?
Richard Garriott has, a couple of times. He's even reached out to EA about possibly returning. So he's interested in coming back at some capacity. I know some of his other games were not hits, but he still has the passion to building worlds. He just excels at Ultima, I think with him we could see some cool things and he obviously has that passion for the series since it was his. That's something I think goes a lot further than you think, because I don't see that type of passion behind Broadsword.
I mean, there are a lot of us who wish they would have asked us "Hey is this how you would like UO to look?" and shown us gameplay of the EC before the committed to launching it. But instead they went full into it, and when it was met with majority disapproval they followed it up with "sure it's not how UO looked, but it's how the game looks in our vision of UO" and that right there should have told us all everything we needed to know. People who still play UO didn't stick around with the hopes of yet another failed attempt to port it over to a 3d client, the original look and feel of UO is largely what has always drawn people and kept people playing it. The 99/00/04 "3d client race to compete with other games" pipe dream was one of the most detrimental things to ever happen to UO.