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New Ultima Online, but with themepark design a WOW killer?

If EA were to publish a New Ultima Online, but with themepark design would it be a WOW killer?

 

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  • AmarantharAmaranthar Member EpicPosts: 5,785

    No.

    It would be a better clone. But a clone is still a clone, and gamers are getting tired of that clone in greater and greater numbers. These gamers don't want to go through levelling up yet another game, even if it's better.

    So, it would sell, but it wouldn't kill WoW or ever reach those vaunting numbers.

    This is the situation for ArchAge too. If it plays as a Themepark, it's not going to hold those big numbers. Same as the current clonespew, GW2 and TSW. Just as it was for SWTOR.

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  • KniknaxKniknax Member UncommonPosts: 576

    No.

    But, if someone with talent, who was much loved for their previous games took Ultima Online and recreated it with a fantasticly friendly and pretty graphics 3D engine and an amazingly user-friendly UI, and introduced lots of great stories... then, yes, I reckon it could be a wow rival. 

    But not as a theme park. As Ultima Online, with the same ruleset and freedom. And boats. And rune-marking. And one-square isle.

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  • faxnadufaxnadu Member UncommonPosts: 940

    nothing kills wow but blizzard. community needs to stop using this term its so last season.

  • Garvon3Garvon3 Member CommonPosts: 2,898
    Originally posted by Danrlei

    If EA were to publish a New Ultima Online, but with themepark design would it be a WOW killer?

     

    How is that even possible, the two are totally opposite designs...

    It's like saying that you can mix singleplayer an MMOs... SWTOR proved you cannot.

  • AmarantharAmaranthar Member EpicPosts: 5,785
    Originally posted by m0lly

    nothing kills wow but blizzard. community needs to stop using this term its so last season.

    It is going down slowly. The thing it has going for it presently is that it's a great Themepark, but more importantly for it's players it has familiarity. It's a comfort zone sort of thing.

    "UO done right" used to be a fairly common term. It included the idea of doing it in 3D and somehow removing the rampant PKing, and then expanding those things that UO did so right.

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  • AethaerynAethaeryn Member RarePosts: 3,149

    Not more then TES Online. . right. . we know where this is headed.  

    IPs make wow killers right star trek and star wars?

    The game would have to be good no matter what title is behind it to last and "kill" anything.

     

    What made UO great was its "newness"  the community relying on each other rather than web searches etc.  It was a complete sandbox.  I just don't see how UO:Themepark would be any different than ???: Themepark.

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  • KilsinKilsin Member RarePosts: 515

    No.

    It would just be a better version of WoW and that is not what most of us want. When we will Devs and companies actually start to get this?

    Stop paying them money for bad games people!

  • fenistilfenistil Member Posts: 3,005

    LoL

     

    Amount of hatred that would be thrown on EA if they would make UO2 as themepark would be astounding.

    I really really would not do that if I would be EA.

  • MizzmoMizzmo Member UncommonPosts: 133
    Originally posted by Danrlei

    If EA were to publish a New Ultima Online, but with themepark design would it be a WOW killer?

     

    What big shot game developers are failing to see (see TOR, WAR, and many others) is that the WoW model of online gaming is failing. The Themepark is on the decline. The only way I can see ultima being successful is if it was like it originally was before it went all carebear. Ultima isn't a name anymore except to those who used to play it. Oh, and EA is involved. Lets not forget that lololol.

    Too bad gamers aren't the ones with the money to invest in games instead of corporate big shots who don't have a clue.

  • ThorqemadaThorqemada Member UncommonPosts: 1,282

    A themepark UO would be a cashgrab and tank after the first month while upsetting the comunity of UO Vets and Sandbox Players damaging not only the brand but the publisher/developer as well (there should ring a Bell now very loud at Zenimax!).

    There be only 2 WOW-Killer:
    One is called Blizzard
    The other is called Time

    One of them will succeed!

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  • S1LentKillerS1LentKiller Member CommonPosts: 71
    Originally posted by Danrlei

    If EA were to publish a New Ultima Online, but with themepark design would it be a WOW killer?

     

     It wouldnt be a WoW killer because its EA.... End of story.

  • cnethingcnething Member Posts: 7

    I'd hate to see UO redone as a theme park. That would be TESO all over again.

  • PsychowPsychow Member Posts: 1,784

    Even a new Ultima designed like the original Ultima wouldn't be a WoW killer. But at least it wouldn't receive the mountain of hate a themepark design would get.

  • PudsyPudsy Member Posts: 34

    You can't kill the wow
    The wow will live on

    Warhammer Online tried to kill the wow
    But they failed as they were smited to the ground

    Age of Conan tried to kill the wow
    But they failed as they were stricken down to the ground

    Star Wars  tried to kill the wow
    Hahahahaha they failed as they were thrown to the ground...

    last time i checked wow was still charlie sheening, WINNING

  • rojoArcueidrojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722
    Originally posted by Danrlei

    If EA were to publish a New Ultima Online, but with themepark design would it be a WOW killer?

     

     Only Blizz will kill WoW. No mmo will





  • Arkangel32Arkangel32 Member UncommonPosts: 83

    Wishful:  Re-create UO, Minor updates and polishing, improve interface ten fold, keep all playing mechanics.

     

    Reality: Company in search for the $$$, will be dumbed down, wow clone, end up being item mall.

     

     

  • XzenXzen Member UncommonPosts: 2,607

    Hell no.

  • maplestonemaplestone Member UncommonPosts: 3,099

    No. 

    The goodwill for the"Ultima" brand is not in the IP - it's in the history of being first-to-market in CRPG and MMO spaces and for the concept of including a personification of the lead developer as a character in the lore of the game itself.

    Being last-to-market in a well-established genre and without rights to mention the creator of the game in the lore gives precious little for loyalists to grasp onto.   It could be a respectable niche seed to grow a new generation of loyalty from, but a WoW-killer just because of the name?  Not a chance.

  • theAsnatheAsna Member UncommonPosts: 324
    Originally posted by Danrlei

    If EA were to publish a New Ultima Online, but with themepark design would it be a WOW killer?

     

    Anything they come up with will find its playerbase. The question is rather: Is the player base they end up with the one that they anticipated?

     

    If you are looking for the WoW killer. Wasn't there some survey recently about which game had most hours played? Wasn't the winner League of Legends?

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/07/11/riot-games-league-of-legends-officially-becomes-most-played-pc-game-in-the-world/

    Wouldn't that qualify a game as WoW killer already today (despite it not being an MMO)?

  • GrixxittGrixxitt Member UncommonPosts: 545
    Originally posted by S1LentKiller
    Originally posted by Danrlei

    If EA were to publish a New Ultima Online, but with themepark design would it be a WOW killer?

     

     It wouldnt be a WoW killer because its EA.... End of story.

    This  x1000000

     

    EA makes bad games and horrible MMOs, at least recently.

    (It might sell a bunch though, depending on how much they pushed it)

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  • OberholzerOberholzer Member Posts: 498

    It's a game from 2004, when or if it ever dies by the time it happens will it seem like a victory to people that are for some reason obsessed with killing WoW?

  • ShakyMoShakyMo Member CommonPosts: 7,207
    Originally posted by Amaranthar

    No.

    It would be a better clone. But a clone is still a clone, and gamers are getting tired of that clone in greater and greater numbers. These gamers don't want to go through levelling up yet another game, even if it's better.

    So, it would sell, but it wouldn't kill WoW or ever reach those vaunting numbers.

    This is the situation for ArchAge too. If it plays as a Themepark, it's not going to hold those big numbers. Same as the current clonespew, GW2 and TSW. Just as it was for SWTOR.

    oh dear TSW and GW2 are wow clones? and archeage is in danger of being one?

    Is any MMO not a wow clone in your eyes?

     

    (I agree with you on SWTOR though)

  • SlampigSlampig Member UncommonPosts: 2,342

    Really? Another WoW killer thread?

     

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  • Outkast22Outkast22 Member Posts: 51

    Who cares about "killing WoW". Play what you enjoy and that need to kill a game you don't like will disappear, move on already.

    Also if they remade UO with a thempark design then it wouldn't be UO, just another game that no one will play.

  • Sora2810Sora2810 Member Posts: 567

    I would want a horizontal-progression (loose term here) 'sandbox' MMO. 

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