EA cancels Ultima X Odyssey MMOG!!

[Derek Smart [3000AD]]

heh (http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/ultima-x-odyssey/527605p1.html?fromint=1) who didn't see this coming?

As we were saying (http://forums.avault.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=005327)?

[CodeZero]

Yup, too many companies are being allured by the grandeur of the MMO genre. There's only so many people in the world who want to pay to play. STar Wars Galaxies, Ragnarok Online, and City of Heroes seem to be sweeping them all up. Granted World of Warcraft will secure everyone else when it's released.

[NO2STARFORCE]

They've killed the Ultima name.

After they destroyed what could have been UO2 they ... "#¤&"#%..

Oh whell, I never had any hopes for UOX or whatever they called it.. looked way too carebearish.

Darkfall Online and Dragon Empires got my votes av_smile.gif


Middle EArth Online will turn into another SWG, only for TOlkien Hardcore Fans, or like the console title Asherons Call 2.

[Nukeler]

Ragnarok Onine!!! WTF are you smoking. Thats an awful game I cant imaging it has anywhere near the population of AC2 or any of the other less then popular game, much less be compared to FFXI which has more poplulation on 1 server then there is in all of RO.

[enfestid]

There's always a game or two that you know will get canceled... I'm pretty sure most of us expected this.

[ July 01, 2004, 11:28 PM: Message edited by: enfestid ]

[Sidane]

Oh for the heady days of Ultima 4 thru 7

/me wipes a solitary tear from his eye graemlins/av_sad.gif

[enfestid]

I should mention, I'm interested to see the unannounced expansion that they're working on... I can't think of any EA games recently out that need expansions with the exception of Battlefield: Vietnam, and I don't think that's exactly going to go to this team.

[Nirvana_CN]

Originally posted by Nukeler:
Ragnarok Onine!!! WTF are you smoking. Thats an awful game I cant imaging it has anywhere near the population of AC2 or any of the other less then popular game, much less be compared to FFXI which has more poplulation on 1 server then there is in all of RO. As bad, as cutesy, as appalling as RO is, only SWG can beat it in terms of subscribers right now. Last i saw on mmorpg.com, on their servers combine they had 100,000 concurrent players, pretty impressive.

When those Crazy Japanese and Koreans take a liking to game they get a boost av_biggrin.gif

[NO2STARFORCE]

Still Lineage 1 has close to 2 million subscribers?
Thats ~10% of the population in Korea (22 mill?)


What I dont like about the subscriber numbers they show. They should instead focus on

HOW MANY TITLES DID WE SELL that did not gain us subscribers past their "free" month?

If they sold 1 million copies and only have 100.000 subscribers I would seriously reconsider my creation and try to do something to get the other 900.000 back into the game.

[Lord Chaos]

Originally posted by Alexander B.:
Still Lineage 1 has close to 2 million subscribers?
Thats ~10% of the population in Korea (22 mill?)
Actually they have 50 million people in South Korea.

But then again, they also have Lineage 2, which is also very popular in S.Korea (some 40 servers).

[NO2STARFORCE]

Originally posted by Lord Chaos:
Actually they have 50 million people in South Korea.

But then again, they also have Lineage 2, which is also very popular in S.Korea (some 40 servers). Oh, they've been busy then av_smile.gif last time I checked it was 22.. but I could have read that somewhere for something else.. =)

Oh whell, still a lot of subscribers.