All Posts by sempiternal

Originally posted by Briansho

• Recruited players are now 'linked' to the player account the invitation was sent from.
• Grouping with a linked player allows both of you to level very quickly. As long as your character and the recruit character are relatively even level, you'll both recieve 3x the normal experience.
• Recruiting players can summon their friends to them once an hour, via a spell, up to level 60.
• For every two levels a recruited player earns, he can grant one level to a character played by the veteran. This character must be lower level than the recruit player's character.
• If the recruit upgrades to a full account from the 10-day trial, these benefits last a full 90 days.
• If the recruit buys a two month subscription as well as upgrading, the recruiting player is granted a unique Zhevra mount.

Wow this is pretty crazy stuff. Is Blizzard starting to sweat a little?? Are the eventually going to get rid of all the starter areas and just start new characters off at level 10-15??

Anyone interested in teaming up with me and leveling characters with 3x experience + receiving free bonus levels for 90 days?  I plan to go all the way to 70, so that would be 35 free levels for one of your characters, 30 days free, plus a Zhevra mount.

I want to team up and train an alliance character on Dragonmaw PvP server, so that would be my only request, is someone that also wants a character there.

You can email me at mmorpg.irc@9ox.net

Originally posted by blbeta

I will make sure to completely start my account though with only the key that the "Recruit-a-Friend" gives me.

I was not aware you could do that. Maybe I don't understand. Are you saying that you can;

1) Request a key through Recruit-A-Friend

2) Use that key to register your account.

3) Apply your retail key to your Recruit-A-Friend Account

4) Get an extra free month?

Read the Ultima Online Second Age Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online:_The_Second_Age

Originally posted by Kemarik

I think if you send an email to support@redbedlam.com they could probably help you regain your account based on your email address.

Unlikely.

I sent a support request about two and a half months ago.  After two months, I received a quick reply.  But still no action to this date.

Are you kidding me?

I have not see anything from Darkfall, and Mortal Online looks much better - since looks are all we have to go on.

Yep, still waiting.

Although, http://www.mortalonline.com, is looking pretty good.

Outstanding concept, poor execution, disdainful lead developer, minimal customer support.

That's Roma Victor in a nutshell, after two years.

There's no monthly fee, so we keep our accounts on the shelf in expectation that the slow progression will eventually culminate in the MMORPG virtual world we have been searching for.

A separate trial server for Roma Victor is bad idea.  The best way to offer trials for this game would be to issue trial accounts on the game server that would be limited in time, limited to starting towns, limited to one per verified billing info, and could be converted to full accounts after the trial expires.

Anything else would do the game more harm than good.

Wow!

That looks great from the video on the homepage:

http://www.mortalonline.com

I had not heard of it, thanks for posting.

My first thought was "another darkfall" though...

I'm definitely going to look into it more.

Originally posted by uoplayer123

I'm still waiting to see if Mythic will have any change on UO or are they holding on to it till WAR is released?  , If Mythic gives UO the time of day and adecent budget I think they could make UO alot more interesting and maybe a nice little shot at a comeback.

After KR, I'm sure EA has now completely given up on trying to force the UO peg into the EQ hole.  After completely destroying UO, they will let it die off - it would have already if it were not for the die-hard fans.  Now EA is focusing on making a WoW clone, I'm sure that will fail too.

Originally posted by Briansho

If only they would bring back a pre-Ren UO core game. Do away with all the extra land for housing/item hoarding and give us a true Ultima universe with only Ultima lore. Bring back super slow skill gain where being a Grandmaster in a skill is a very very rare thing and meant something. Get rid of the ADHD short attention span/instant gratification mindset.

I agree with that.

It's simple:

Electronic Arts ruined Ultima Online.

A lifetime subscription to Roma Victor costs $0

A lifetime subscription to garbarge?  That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

Those of us that enjoyed UO while it was still an incredible free world, will never forget it.

But EA will never bring that back.

Like the previous poster said, UO died in 2000, when Lord British and team left, and EA put their minions in charge to try to copy EQ and completely change the game.

Originally posted by silkakc

http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business...1140-21108133/

Tell us about Lord of the Rings…

The number of subscribers is into six figures and we’ve had 300,000 box sales in Europe - you can also double that into the States. If you want to enter the fantasy-based market you must be mad. Unless you have a licence like Lord of the Rings, it’s too competitive. We are launching a space-based combat game which you can play online, but our game is all action like Battle Star Gallactica. Whether there’s space in the fantasy market I don’t know.

 

Here's the first numbers I've seen posted anywhere since LoTRO launched. Codemasters is saying they had 300k box sales in Europe alone- and double that for the US. So, it's either 600k total or 900k total- depending upon what the fella means:) And that wouldn't be counting digital downloads either but I don't know how many people actually download games that way.

 

Either way- it's WAY- WAY -WAY more than the OP estimated for Europe. He was guessing 30k  in Europe and 200k in the USA. Here's verification they sold at LEAST 600k boxes.

First of all, it's 600k copies that have been sold, not 900k, and that includes online sales.

Second, you seemed to have missed one of the main points in the initial post, copies sold does not equal subscribers, not even close.

Third, I did not say that only 30k were sold in Europe total,  this is just a failure to read or comprehend on your part.  What I estimated is that 30k were sold in Europe during the same time period that 28k were sold in the US.

It's also very telling that in the very response to a question about LoTRO numbers, he goes on to say that it's very competitive, and then even begins talking about other games.  Those are not good indicators.

Originally posted by Bloodnok

ANybody could set up a website with MMO sub charts on it and claim inside sources gave them information. I could do it in about 15 minutes and make up all the numbers myself. It's all educated guesses, nothing more.

Well, that's definitely an ignorant lie.

*sigh*

The only ones that get pissed off are those that wish there were some opposing evidence that the player versus artificial intelligence LoTRO did better, or those that are invested into LoTRO in some way.

Most of us find knowing MMO subscription numbers interesting, it's fun to know how many people are playing a game with you.

One thing is for sure, Turbine is inviting people to estimate subscription numbers by not releasing the numbers themselves.  The only reason Turbine has to not release the numbers, is if they fall far below expectations.  You can be sure that if LoTRO was even near 1 million subscribers, they would be announcing it publicly everywhere.  So the fact that a company does not release any type of subscription numbers is very telling in and of itself.

Yes, Ultima Online is rotten to the core; as a result of Electronic Arts' ignorance.

If you want to play Ultima Online, then the best option is to search for free servers.