Nonentity
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
[20:42:41] You are halted on the way to the netherworld by a dark spirit, demanding knowledge.
[20:42:41] The spirit touches you and you feel drained.
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LK
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I signed up. I'm weak.
I liked how it read "About Lord of Ultima ---> AND OTHER EA PRODUCTS <---" on their e-mail opt-in.
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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investigating
someone page WUA
Edit: "Empty reply from server" FFS. Will try later.
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« Last Edit: January 27, 2010, 12:53:20 PM by Soln »
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Samwise
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sentient yeast infection
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someone page WUA
ATTENTION EVERYONE THE WORLD WAS CREATED IN SIX DAYS AND IS FLAT ALSO, SERENITY WAS A FAR BETTER MOVIE THAN REVENGE OF THE SITH IN EVERY QUANTIFIABLE WAY |
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Nonentity
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I can't get in yet, sadly.
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
[20:42:41] You are halted on the way to the netherworld by a dark spirit, demanding knowledge.
[20:42:41] The spirit touches you and you feel drained.
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Tarami
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They really outdid themselves with the registration page.  Edit: Temporary bug, nevermind. |
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« Last Edit: January 27, 2010, 01:17:50 PM by Tarami »
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- I'm giving you this one for free.
- Nothing's free in the waterworld.
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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HAHA SUKKAS WE PWN JOO Servers full
Sorry, all worlds are full. If you opted to receive emails about Lord of Ultima we'll let you know when new slots open up. Or you can check back in a few days. |
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Azaroth
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Yeah, I tried to sign up earlier today. Same thing.
If it didn't have the word Ultima in the title, I wouldn't bother trying again.
So I guess they're lucky that they paid for that. With me, anyway. Everyone else? I'm not so sure.
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F is inviting you to start Quarto. Do you want to Accept (Alt+C) or Decline (Alt+D) the invitation?
You have accepted the invitation to start Quarto.
F says:
don't know what this is
Az says:
I think it's like
Az says:
where we pour milk on the stomach alien from total recall
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Signe
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It makes me a woman with a beard. I can't play this game until they add a Schick Quattro.  |
My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Ghambit
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These are the same guys who did Battleforge, which is actually a pretty damned good game regardless of its long-term power and popularity. As usual, the Germans chunk out small, robust progs. with speed. I'm gonna try this if I can scam a key.
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"See, the beauty of webgames is that I can play them on my phone while I'm plowing your mom." -Samwise
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WindupAtheist
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ATTENTION EVERYONE
THE WORLD WAS CREATED IN SIX DAYS AND IS FLAT
ALSO, SERENITY WAS A FAR BETTER MOVIE THAN REVENGE OF THE SITH IN EVERY QUANTIFIABLE WAY WHO DARES SUMMON ME?  I also would have accepted "UO sucks" and "mechs are better than tanks". |
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"Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Signe
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Do you need a key? I think all you need is an EA account, like for DAoC or something.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Ghambit
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Do you need a key? I think all you need is an EA account, like for DAoC or something.
There's a place in your account where you can add a key that I assume gets you in even though all server slots are full. Even if you have an EA account though, right now you cant get in. (shrug) Y'know what this reminds me of is the glut of HoMM: Kingdoms-type (ubisoft) games that are on the horizon. These bigger studios are tackling this genre with the force lately. This one came outta left field though. It's not even on the Phenomic website (that I can find). |
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"See, the beauty of webgames is that I can play them on my phone while I'm plowing your mom." -Samwise
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Signe
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Ah, I don't know, then. I just saw the bit where it says you can just log in if you have an EA account and took it at face value. That'll teach me!
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LK
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They just opened some slots. First come first serve! Go go go!
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Azaroth
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SERVERS FULL
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Don't bother. They opened four slots, apparently?
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F is inviting you to start Quarto. Do you want to Accept (Alt+C) or Decline (Alt+D) the invitation?
You have accepted the invitation to start Quarto.
F says:
don't know what this is
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I think it's like
Az says:
where we pour milk on the stomach alien from total recall
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LK
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Yeah I got the e-mail 50 minutes before I tried... eh.
This is probably going to be a Travian clone.
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Azaroth
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Has nobody taken a look at it yet, even?
Unless someone has seen the damn thing and it's super cool, I'm really done caring now.
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F is inviting you to start Quarto. Do you want to Accept (Alt+C) or Decline (Alt+D) the invitation?
You have accepted the invitation to start Quarto.
F says:
don't know what this is
Az says:
I think it's like
Az says:
where we pour milk on the stomach alien from total recall
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LK
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Yeah to be honest I'm expecting bad things. The website is put together in a pretty shitty manner. I'm almost certain it's not reading my account information correctly to login.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Ghambit
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Well, I'm expecting good things. Phenomic has yet to make a bad game... 'course, this was before EA got involved
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"See, the beauty of webgames is that I can play them on my phone while I'm plowing your mom." -Samwise
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LK
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Oh jesus fucking christ, this first-come first-serve system is bullshit. I always seem to get their e-mails in traffic and the servers are always full within 30 minutes, though I'm expecting they fill up after 5 from the e-mail.
I don't see why they can't just authorize on a first-come first-serve from REGISTRATION instead of going with the stampede these assholes have implemented.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Nonentity
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Okay, I didn't miss much then. I was all sad when I got to work and it was full already.
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
[20:42:41] You are halted on the way to the netherworld by a dark spirit, demanding knowledge.
[20:42:41] The spirit touches you and you feel drained.
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Ghambit
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This is kinda funny... interesting marketing tool I'd say they've got a large sum of people's attention. Y'know, it'd be really cool if we had someone from Phenomic on f13. Those guys always seemed a bit "off" to me, errrr "on" depending on your pov. Damned Germans, they be wierd.
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"See, the beauty of webgames is that I can play them on my phone while I'm plowing your mom." -Samwise
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LK
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Same as HOMM. I'm hoping a big-name company does a web game that is actually pretty damn good. Good small project for interior people.
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Ghambit
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I find it interesting how pbbg's are getting bigger and your big-block 3d MMOs are getting smaller. We're almost to a point now where the retention and profit margins are smarter devving a damned webgame.
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schild
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We're almost to a point now where the retention and profit margins are smarter devving a damned webgame. We've been past that point for years now. |
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Ghambit
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We're almost to a point now where the retention and profit margins are smarter devving a damned webgame. We've been past that point for years now. %-wise, shear dollar amount, or both? [when talking about margins] I'd say the bigger 3d studios overall clear more money, but percentage-wise it's less than a pbbg. Even this is changing of course. |
"See, the beauty of webgames is that I can play them on my phone while I'm plowing your mom." -Samwise
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grebo
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Are people still having problems getting in? I just randomly tried and got right in.
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Why don't you try our other games?
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grebo
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Optional PVP. Open city building plan (build your buildings anywhere you want). Lots of unit and building types. Dungeons to raid. Seems pretty good so far.
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Why don't you try our other games?
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LK
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Ghambit
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Grebo woke up, sat there all morning, and spammed the "Play Now" button. Then gave us a generic, quasi-NDA-breaking synopsis.  |
"See, the beauty of webgames is that I can play them on my phone while I'm plowing your mom." -Samwise
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Slyfeind
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Yeah I like how there are lots of monsters to fight, treasure to get, and cities to build, all with the Ultima theme.
Mind you, I have never played this ever, nor seen any screenshots. But still.
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"Role playing in an MMO is more like an open orchestra with no conductor, anyone of any skill level can walk in at any time, and everyone brings their own instrument and plays whatever song they want. Then toss PvP into the mix and things REALLY get ugly!" -Count Nerfedalot
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Sir Fodder
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I stumbled across the page for this game right after it came live, noting the original style font it struck me as weird being one of the kids that breathlessly purchased Ultima in a ziplock bag that I was now too bleh to even bother registering for this, sorta like all the superhero movies I haven't seen.
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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still can't get in to hate it
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grebo
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NDA? Wha? I don't remember signing nothin.
I swear tho, I only tried to get into this twice. Once when this thread started and again yesterday. I apparently have superpower luck magic.
Now on to building stuff and killing things.
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Why don't you try our other games?
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