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Originally Posted by Zluka
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Quite the contrary it wasn't Trammel that "killed" UO. It was PvP... I remember people leaving in droves because there was no forced PvP in EQ. Oh and it was newer and much more exciting, there was that too.
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I call BS on that one. If you look at the
chart you see UO didn't start to die until AoS/SE.
There was still plenty of PvP in the game after Renaissance, just not so much the solo-ganker type any longer. But if you were into big wars, friggen golden age pre-AoS.
AoS killed it, period, pvp and non-pvp players. Look at the chart there. That and SE sent it into a tailspin. They screwed up the game, made it all more gear dependent while marginalizing skills and just throwing this huge pile of stuff and item treadmills into the game, like BOD's etc. BOD's in itself was enough to kill the game, especially before BOD books lol. BOD's compared to the days of standing around the Brit forge repairing armor and weapon for players, a social game it was, an mmo. It became a solo-friendly game where you needed no one but yourself and maybe a stocked vendor standing near by.
Not just BOD's of course, a whole lot of things, just the total dumbing down of the game overall since AoS and onward. Such as took me a year to GMx a tamer (an accomplishment), but after AoS it became three days. That's about the total time worth playing UO before uninstalling it now/post-AoS, about three days. Or the demise of the pure warrior, where I once loved to play on my macer and demonstrate the meaning of
skill as I smashed through players armor with well timed moves in wars and tournaments. No, they changed the game to best fit for morons that cant handle the challenge of the skill game where one player may actually play better than another. They made it "fair" where no matter how good you are or how bad, every one is equal under the dumbed down system. The hero, the villain, long since dead and buried. UO is dead, died long ago.