Game News Not-Ultima Online 2: Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarter is Live

[jewboy]

His hobby? You mean space flight?

 

[Stabwound]

I think he means LARPing as fictional royalty and having 45 year old neckbeards treat him like he truly is.

 

[Country_Gravy]

Fucking pet system is their first stretch goal....followed by weather.

This is going to suck balls.

 

[Minttunator]

Wow, that is pretty weak. They seriously couldn't come up with anything more substantial than pets and weather? o_O

 

[St. Toxic]

People want their pussies to get wet. I'm surprised pets and weather weren't included from the get-go.

 

[Stabwound]

Yeah, I have no idea. I think they expected to fly past $1,000,000 but these stretch goals are awful, and they had an agonizing 7+ days to come up with something exciting. Instead it's virtual pets and snow. Mindblowing! Richard Garriott once again innovates with every step.

I would honestly rather RG give up on the single player shit and just go all out with a massive Ultima Online sequel. The ultimate larping simulator. This crossbreed thing isn't working.

 

[Brayko]

Well, how many RPG developers actually add seasonal weather in their games?

 

[RK47]

People want their pussies to get wet. I'm surprised pets and weather weren't included from the get-go.

....*monocle shatters*

 

[HobGoblin42]

They have 7 Million in funds from "Private Investors".

Is this information reliable?

 

[Infinitron]

They have 7 Million in funds from "Private Investors".

Is this information reliable?

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/11/richard-garriotts-portalarium-secures-7-million-funding-for-io/

 

[St. Toxic]

Well, how many RPG developers actually add seasonal weather in their games?

Well, UO did have periods of rain and snow and some shards cycled the maps to represent seasons. If you're trying to score points with followers of your previous games social experiments, you're certainly not going to get a whole lot by promising features which the player-base is already accustomed to. More likely you'll just draw attention to the fact that what used to be core features are being withheld as part of a cash-grab strategy. In any case, not sure I've seen weather presented as anything more than cosmetics in any game so far.

 

[Jaesun]

He should have just been completely honest from the beginning and said he want to make a new Ultima Online like game.

I would have probably backed that if he had.

 

[Grunker]

I would have probably backed that if he had.

 

[Jaesun]

I loved Ultima Online. *shrug*

 

[Excidium]

OoOooOo

 

[Excommunicator]

Can there possibly be a better game than one where you leave a metal weight on your keyboard overnight just so that there was a chance that in the morning you would find

Your skill in Evaluating Intelligence has decreased by 0.1%. It is now 89.2%

Fuck yes that means if I'm lucky tomorrow night I'll be able to macro my Taste Identification skill up by 0.1%

 

[St. Toxic]

If you wanted to min/max your character asap, you could achieve mastery in most basic skills within a couple of weeks of macroing. If you wanted to play the game, you could do that too. Both characters would reach the same end-cap anyway, only taking different routes and different amounts of time to get there.

 

[thesheeep]

Ahhh, yes, Ultima Online, the first (and only!) game where I was banned from a server.
Good times :D

But this KS, I don't know.
This is like Bill Gates kickstarting Windows 9. Just on a smaller scale.

It just seems wrong to me to give money to people who should have more than enough already. And this one went into space for the lulz FFS!
Or am I that mistaken and LB is not filthy rich?

 

[Jaesun]

 

[Zeriel]

Ahhh, yes, Ultima Online, the first (and only!) game where I was banned from a server.
Good times :D

But this KS, I don't know.
This is like Bill Gates kickstarting Windows 9. Just on a smaller scale.

It just seems wrong to me to give money to people who should have more than enough already. And this one went into space for the lulz FFS!
Or am I that mistaken and LB is not filthy rich?

He spent 30M to go into space, then he got more than that back from a lawsuit with NCSoft. So, yeah, guy is rolling in cash, and even has considerable amounts of private money lined up for this project already, he just wants some of that sweet Kickstarter plunder to line his pockets.

 

[HobGoblin42]

Or am I that mistaken and LB is not filthy rich?

He is rich, but not as rich as Fargo who already did two successful kickstarter campaigns
Both could easily finance their game projects with their private money, but they are wealthy precisely because they don't do that.

 

[ghostdog]

Huh ? Garriott is much richer than Fargo.

Richard Garriott wins lawsuit against NCsoft (again)

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 25th 2011 7:16PM

Last July, spacefaring game developer Richard Garriott won $28 million in a court case against former employer (and Tabula Rasa publisher) NCSoft, claiming that he was forced to sell his stock in the company at a low point in the market following his termination. NCSoft appealed the decision, and, after more than a year of further legal struggle, an appellate decision was reached in the 5th Circuit Court: Richard's getting paper.

"It would be unjust to allow NCsoft to sit back during trial, observe Garriott's litigation strategy, and then demand a new trial on damages when it dislikes the verdict," the ruling reads. Garriott's former victory was not only upheld -- NCSoft now owes him $32 million with interest and attorney fees. With that kind of cash, he could buy back his old manor, and build, like, five new manors on top of it. Or he could just go into space again; in the long run, that's probably the better investment.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/25/richard-garriott-wins-lawsuit-against-ncsoft-again/

 

[Hobz]

I’ve met virtually no one…who I think is close to as good a game designer as I am.
I think most game designers really just suck
And every designer that I work with…I think, frankly, is lazy.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/03/19/richard-garriott-game-designers-suck/
I guess it takes the best designer ever come to life to turn Ultima into a dubious cash-grab.

 

[RK47]

oh god. make it stop. it hurts.
send the fucker to a mining camp in new magincia

 

[Jaesun]

Wow. He really does live inside his fantasy land bubble of reality.