UO and Free to Play
Last week, a former BioWare design manager, Ethan Levy, gave a talk at the East Coast Games Conference about the business of games. Mixed into his talk was discussion of “Free to Play” (F2P)...
Category: Commentary
A Peak at the Control EA Has Over its Games
In a return of the Big Huge Wednesday series on Ultima Aiera, there is a link to a thread where Curt Schilling (yes, that Curt Schilling) addresses a fan angry over some problem with...
Let’s Revisit High Seas, Mining, and Lumberjacking
A few days ago I posted an article, One Year Later, It’s Time to Revisit New Magincia, where I discussed the idea of not abandoning New Magincia or washing your hands of it, but...
One Year Later: It’s Time to Revist New Magincia
I just want to get this out of the way – how to fix New Magincia – Move the bank closer to the town center – Move the Moongate closer to the town center...
Reflections on Ultima VII and UO: Embrace the Ultima
If you don’t know by now, it’s Ultima VII’s 20th Anniversary. WtF Dragon has done an amazing job of gathering materials and information for it. It’s the 20th Anniversary, and just 5 months from...
UO’s 20th Anniversary Part 1: The Players
We are just around five months away from the 15th Anniversary of Ultima Online, and I think it’s time to talk about the 20th Anniversary. Too soon? Shouldn’t we be talking about the 15th...
Notes on Last Week’s Developer Video for May
These are some notes and a brief compilation of some of the topics that came up during last week’s UO Developer Q&A for May of 2011 that I had forgotten to post. These somewhat...
