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OSI Starts Selling Preleveled UO characters
NinjaPablo writes "OSI has started a new service, detailed here which allows you to pay $29.95 to get a decent character premade for you, and bypass the hours of working skills at lower levels. Most of the player community is in an uproar about the whole thing, since it basically means a newbie can pay a little extra and be as good as an average player right off the bat."
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That is an absolute load of CRAP. It's a freakin' game. I tried to play UO a few times, and every single time I stopped...
Why? Because it took TOO GODDAMN LONG to get anything done. If you wanted to actually go out and enjoy what the world had to offer, you had to spend a goddamn month of your time wasting away in your computer room just to get halfway there.
The fun part of the game is playing it, period. It doesn't matter what your style is, as long as you have fun playing it. If you play from the beginning and enjoy it, great. If you start somewhere in the middle and enjoy it, great. That's all that matters.
You whiny assholes who are complaining this ruins the "value" of your character? Give me a freaking break. It's a goddamn video game. Most of the games you have to agree NOT to sell your characters anyway, so the value is essentially 0 no matter how much time you put into it. You play the game. You have fun. That's all that matters.
This is a GREAT idea. For somebody like me who simply DOES NOT have the time to build a level 50 character in Everquest (I hate to say this, but I have a fucking job) and would like to actually SEE the world (I did enjoy playing it afterall) this is a GREAT option, far more cost effective than buying this shit on Ebay, and not only that it's happens under controlled circumstances so that EA can do what ever they need to keep the economy from going off balance.
Bryan