07-25-2007, 07:09 AM
[COLOR="Red"]I've been reading up on UOKR [kingdom reborn] and i stumbled upon a piece of UOs history that I didn't know about: Ultima Online 2
I started to read up on it and found this article talking about how some asian guy sued EA for UO2 or something like that, so it got canceled [which personally I think is very lame because UO2 could have been awesome].
Anyway I looked at a forum talking about the article and saw a guy say this:[/COLOR]
I don't believe that UO2 would have ever had as many subscribers as WOW. One of the key factors in WOW is the simplicity and the number of quests available through all of the levels of a character. UO2 might have revolutionized the way games are created though. Instead of levels and exp grinding you would see more skill based games. Overall the complexity of the game would have created a better virtual world for those people really interested in being immersed into a virtual world, but would keep the younger generation from being able to understand the system fully compared to WOW.
Personally if UO2 had come out and was everything UO was in a First Person view then I would probably still be playing that game today. Other games like DAOC, AO, AC2 would not have been as popular as they were and many of the EQ crowd would have played UO2 instead.
The first thing that I noticed was what he said about WOW being popular because of the simplicity, and I thought yea, but the only reason it's popular because of said factor is because all of the stupid [and quite annoying] little kids join daily because it's so easy for their timid little minds to handle. The two main reasons I quit WOW after a few weeks of play was because of annoying kids, and because it was so boring for me [because of the simplicity]. Soo I was wondering people's opinions on all this [it's something to talk about at least while still waiting on the server]. Ok here's a question, what would have happened to UO if EA Games had not taken over and the original creator of UO had stayed with it?
I started to read up on it and found this article talking about how some asian guy sued EA for UO2 or something like that, so it got canceled [which personally I think is very lame because UO2 could have been awesome].
Anyway I looked at a forum talking about the article and saw a guy say this:[/COLOR]
I don't believe that UO2 would have ever had as many subscribers as WOW. One of the key factors in WOW is the simplicity and the number of quests available through all of the levels of a character. UO2 might have revolutionized the way games are created though. Instead of levels and exp grinding you would see more skill based games. Overall the complexity of the game would have created a better virtual world for those people really interested in being immersed into a virtual world, but would keep the younger generation from being able to understand the system fully compared to WOW.
Personally if UO2 had come out and was everything UO was in a First Person view then I would probably still be playing that game today. Other games like DAOC, AO, AC2 would not have been as popular as they were and many of the EQ crowd would have played UO2 instead.
The first thing that I noticed was what he said about WOW being popular because of the simplicity, and I thought yea, but the only reason it's popular because of said factor is because all of the stupid [and quite annoying] little kids join daily because it's so easy for their timid little minds to handle. The two main reasons I quit WOW after a few weeks of play was because of annoying kids, and because it was so boring for me [because of the simplicity]. Soo I was wondering people's opinions on all this [it's something to talk about at least while still waiting on the server]. Ok here's a question, what would have happened to UO if EA Games had not taken over and the original creator of UO had stayed with it?
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