EA had "Classic" Code all along - Lied about it to players.

[Elrick]

Ultima will live on forever, but ea's version is certainly on the fritz.

Doubt they'll close all the servers down anytime soon, something drastic will happen as a last resort effort to gain players again before that happens.

[Az]

How will it live on?

In what fashion?

In the hands of who?

For what reason?

[Diz]

50,000 subscribers would surprise me.

That would honestly surprise me more than the 15 million randoms/casuals/soccer moms that play WoW.

[Elrick]

In the hearts and minds of the players Azy, and the smelly admins who gve their time and money for the love of the game.

That's all I got.

Did you see angel island released there code? Worth a peak some interesting things have been done on that server.. should do a merge with all free shards for a massive developer and player influx.

[Basia]

How will it live on?

In the hands of someone who understands the passion people feel for the game.

You.

(I'm gonna go wash my nose off now)

[Diz]

Elrick your last sentence is absolute lunacy! Lol!!!!

[BiGbRoThEr]

In the hands of someone who understands the passion people feel for the game.

You.

(I'm gonna go wash my nose off now)

Your inclination amuses me, also your mild, dry humor amuses me, I love it! You big ol' sly brown noser you! Dirty dog! Dirty dog!

[Azvacar]

So why lie about it? Why not state that? It was their code, all they had to say was, "Hey, we don't want to support this, it won't bring in any money, we're not going to do this.". Sure people would complain, but that's too bad. Why feign incompetence?

Worse than that, why stop lying? Could have at least given the players a reach around and given a better lie, "Hey! We found the server code! Misfiled. Ain't that a bitch? Yay us!"

*Shakes head*

I don't know why they said anything other than "no" at all.

As far as population goes, MMODATA says 100k or so between 2009 and 2010 with a confidence rating of C, "not too confident." I seem to remember someone on the EALouse blog saying 50k too, though I forgot how reliable the source was.

[keuse]

they have 100,000 subscribers now
and apparently developers just posted a thread on stratics asking the community how much they would be willing to 'give' in terms of the rules of the shard if they made a classic shard... so there is some interest by them
but again... this should have been done 5 years ago and nobody will pay for ultima online anymore besides the airheads that for some reason still play on EA/'Mythic' servers for 14.99 a month.

[keuse]

That Morgan LeFay girl on stratics is a ****ing idiot.
I've seen her post relentlessly on what her perception of a 'classic shard' should entail.
I knew all along EA wouldnt release a classic server and she would post bricks upon bricks of text defending and arguing about a classic shard, trying to get support for it.

Some people i guess need to learn things on their own.