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Ultima Online Expansion Sept. 8, WAR Expansion In Near Future
IndustryGamers recently spoke with Mythic Entertainment execs about the futures of Ultima Online and Warhammer Online. UO's newest expansion, Stygian Abyss, was recently given a September 8th release date. As for WAR, they say, "... we just finished up a major patch for Warhammer Online and there's a lot of stuff we're thinking about for improving and enhancing the gameplay experience and guaranteeing that the product lives up to the legacy of the Warhammer franchise. You should expect an expansion in the near future." The Overly Positive blog suggests that recent developer interviews have undergone a change in tone, demonstrating a greater willingness to acknowledge the game's flaws and work out ways to correct them.
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Favorite NIGGER joke - What do you call a bunch of niggers hanging around a farm? Antique farm equipment!
Favorite JEW joke - How was copper wiring invented? Two jews fighting over a penny!
Favorite DEAD BABY joke - What's black and bubbly and taps on glass? A dead baby in the microwave!
Favorite BEANER joke - Have you heard of the Mexican car races? Yeah, the first one to get the car started wins!
Favorite FAGGOT joke - Four fags walk into a gay bar but the bartender has just one stool. He turns the stool upside down!
Favorite BITCH joke - What do you say to a woman with two black eyes? Nothing, you already told her twice!
Favorite DUNE COON joke - why did the Muslim go apeshit and singlehandedly destroy a whole enemy army? He heard they were drawing cartoons of Mohammed.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Extra nigger joke story!
A Chinese dude walks into a bar. The bar has a black bartender. The Chinese dude sits down and says "Hey, gimme a jigger, nigger!" The black guy didn't like that one bit. He says to the Chinese dude, "hey, that's not fair. how would you like it if somebody did that to you?!" The Chinese guy says "I wouldn't give a damn if they did." So the black guy wants to prove his point. He gets the Chinese guy to sit behind the bar so he can be the bartender. Then he leaves and comes back in. The black guy sits down and says "Hey, gimme a drink, chink!" The Chinese dude just smiles and says "we don't serve no niggers here."
Now wait for the stupid easily offended mods with no sense of humor. They're jokes, get over it. I can laugh at a nigger joke but if I ever saw someone harassing a black man because he was black I would come to the black man's defense. I bet you fucks wouldn't understand that. You see, it's easy to separete the reality of racism from the fantasy of a joke, unless you're a moron. The reality of racism is a horrible thing that must be resisted but the jokes are quite entertaining. I bet you dumb fucks think violent video games are anything other than a non-issue too, for all of the same reasons. Now go pat yourselves on the back for sitting in your computer chair and wasting a mod point and thinking that you're doing a god damned thing to further the cause of human equality. Or just admit you'll mod this down too because the truth hurts when it exposes how shallow and stupid and conformist you are. Quick, go serve the media by defending the hypersensitivity and political correctness they have tried so hard to instill in you, like a good little orthodox citizen.
Meanwhile, I CHALLENGE ANYONE to come up with a GOOD and FUNNY white joke. I've never ever heard one. I want to. May wanna post it anonymously because the frothing-at-the-mouth easily offended politically correct droids will probably mod down even a white joke. So much for tolerance and free speech. Oh they say they are for those things then they only support speech they like because they are hypocritical little bastards who should have been blowjobs.
... Stygian Abyss? Is it going to be first person and filled with mapping out mazes?
...color me dumbfounded...
I knew ultima online was still around but I had no idea they were still putting out expansions.
Even EA can't kill this greatness, of course it weas cooler when Origin still existed and owned it. .
What a day! We just launched the open beta, and now I get to come home and see UO up on the front page of Slashdot!
This totally made my registration all those years ago worth it :P
Seriously! A lot of people don't even realize UO is even around, when it still has a playerbase that outshines (in size *and* passion) many of the newest entrants, who're so quick to fade away while Britannia lives on.
It's amazing, and humbling, when I think about how different UO is from the grindfests so prevalent these days, when all we do is try to let players live in the Ultima universe with some fun, tile-based physics and a penchant for interactivity (and in Felucca, a bit of brutality!)
The Stygian Abyss expansion may not be 3D (awww, sorry Ultima Underworld), but there's plenty homage paid to our rich past :)
Why is Warhammer Online releasing an expansion? There's not enough players for the content that's out there, unless they merge to about five servers.
Sorry to shit on their parade, but every time I check server populations, it's low/low or medium/low. Haven't seen any highs, except in the beginning.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
WAR... what is it good for?
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I left UO to play SWG as in the Original days SWG was UO:2 with the Star Wars IP. UO's greatest strength was that you could change your class. Its not like WOW where a Mage is a Mage is a Mage. You could mix parts of the Mage skill set with that of the warrior and with the pet handler and create your own combination. Sure there were cookie cutter builds but by the time you changed your character to that build a new cookie cutter build had gained popularity. People became good at PVP not by changing their skills every two weeks but learning to master the skills that they had chosen to learn for best effect. IMO while UO stays away from Archetype based characters it will maintain its niche.
The MyTh - I am a figment of the Imagination - [Im Probably even not here]
To be honest Warhammer is dying out they have been basically ignoring the player base for the last 6 months and pumping out PVE content in a PVP game. They are starting to address PVP issues now but it might be to late. Most people have abandoned the game and they are down to like 7 or 8 servers from 40 in the begining. With Aion coming out next month and many people saying they will abandon the game when it does, leaves this title in question. Destruction is leaving in mass (due to nerfed classes not being addressed) and then their will be no one left to fight. This is kinda a shame since i liked the game but its poor client performance and annoyance of grinding they put in the game have erroded my support for it. An expansion might be interesting but i dont think it will last that long to monetarily support one.