>I shall toy with my prey.
Ok this should be fun to hear
>EA didn't suddenly wake up in the morning and decide that >UO2 wouldn't be profitable.
Really?
>If they were going to realize that UO2 would simply take >people away from UO, they could have done so without w>asting millions of dollars and two years of development.
UO2 wouldnt take away from UO. Most of the People that play UO own more than one account and as such i doubt they would mind dropping the cost of that extra account to play both UO and UO2..
>People had been sobbing about this from the day the >project was announced
What people? Do you actualy PLAY uo? Do you realise that I hadn't met a SINGLE person in my gaming that thought UO2 was a bad idea, in fact a lot of them were looking forward to it, so who are these people??
>-- EA didn't care, and there was no reason for them >to 'suddenly' change their minds.
Its called money, whatever the root of this shutdown was it was about money, for WHATEVER REASON UO2 would not have been profitable, i didint say it wouldnt SELL to the market or that it wouldn't have the support and stability that UO has.....
I clearly said that it wouldn't be feasible, and in case you didn't do business at college which i did, let me inform you that the feasability of a business whilst tied to other factors comes down to one question
Q. Can this business MAKE money?
A. Yes, it can.... then do it
A. No, it cant [enter reason] then dont do it
So you are trying to RESPOND to my point without actualy understanding what i have said, now WHO is the moron?
>So what happened? Something that doesn't have anything to >do with money. Richard Garriott -- and don't laugh.
LOL
>Certainly, it can be written off as a big coincidence that >UO2 was cancelled at the same exact moment as he was ready >to announce Destination Games...
It was before this, about 2 months before i remember
>But look at what's happened *since* the whole mess of >craziness -- RG has picked up nearly every UO team member >anyone's ever heard of. These are people who were employed >by Origin who chose to leave for whatever he's doing.
Chose to leave? they were fired, big difference there!!
>Thus, it's rather apparent that he's doing something that >people will risk trading in their steady jobs for.
Its called creativity and job satisfaction. Garriot wont amount to anything without the support of ORIGIN because he has had his 5minutes, sold his soul to EA and got fired because he wasnt needed anymore
Im sure his new game will be quite entertaining but it wont rival anything mainstream!
>Electronic Arts *knew* this. By cancelling UO2 they escape >all the negative press they'd have recieved if the entire >UO2 team were to be hired away in such a fashion...
OMFG ur such a damn idiot!!
So your WHOLE argument is based that UO2 was canceled because they were AFRAID that Garriot MIGHT try and poach them from their quite secure contracts.....
Rememeber when LB quit and he coudlnt talk for like a year about his work in ultima..... that was sewn into his contract by the same people that made up the DEVELOPERS of UO2 contracts
Do you really think that they would let a 50million$ project go down the pans because Garriot does a JEERY MAGUIRE asking "WHO WILL COME WITH HIM" and they all leave?
No, like football players they will be tied to a contract and if they DID have a get out clause it would prevent them from working for another company in the same market for a year or more.....
Now, idiot of the year2001, can u please STFU unless u actualy know what you are talking about
Ok this should be fun to hear
>EA didn't suddenly wake up in the morning and decide that >UO2 wouldn't be profitable.
Really?
>If they were going to realize that UO2 would simply take >people away from UO, they could have done so without w>asting millions of dollars and two years of development.
UO2 wouldnt take away from UO. Most of the People that play UO own more than one account and as such i doubt they would mind dropping the cost of that extra account to play both UO and UO2..
>People had been sobbing about this from the day the >project was announced
What people? Do you actualy PLAY uo? Do you realise that I hadn't met a SINGLE person in my gaming that thought UO2 was a bad idea, in fact a lot of them were looking forward to it, so who are these people??
>-- EA didn't care, and there was no reason for them >to 'suddenly' change their minds.
Its called money, whatever the root of this shutdown was it was about money, for WHATEVER REASON UO2 would not have been profitable, i didint say it wouldnt SELL to the market or that it wouldn't have the support and stability that UO has.....
I clearly said that it wouldn't be feasible, and in case you didn't do business at college which i did, let me inform you that the feasability of a business whilst tied to other factors comes down to one question
Q. Can this business MAKE money?
A. Yes, it can.... then do it
A. No, it cant [enter reason] then dont do it
So you are trying to RESPOND to my point without actualy understanding what i have said, now WHO is the moron?
>So what happened? Something that doesn't have anything to >do with money. Richard Garriott -- and don't laugh.
LOL
>Certainly, it can be written off as a big coincidence that >UO2 was cancelled at the same exact moment as he was ready >to announce Destination Games...
It was before this, about 2 months before i remember
>But look at what's happened *since* the whole mess of >craziness -- RG has picked up nearly every UO team member >anyone's ever heard of. These are people who were employed >by Origin who chose to leave for whatever he's doing.
Chose to leave? they were fired, big difference there!!
>Thus, it's rather apparent that he's doing something that >people will risk trading in their steady jobs for.
Its called creativity and job satisfaction. Garriot wont amount to anything without the support of ORIGIN because he has had his 5minutes, sold his soul to EA and got fired because he wasnt needed anymore
Im sure his new game will be quite entertaining but it wont rival anything mainstream!
>Electronic Arts *knew* this. By cancelling UO2 they escape >all the negative press they'd have recieved if the entire >UO2 team were to be hired away in such a fashion...
OMFG ur such a damn idiot!!
So your WHOLE argument is based that UO2 was canceled because they were AFRAID that Garriot MIGHT try and poach them from their quite secure contracts.....
Rememeber when LB quit and he coudlnt talk for like a year about his work in ultima..... that was sewn into his contract by the same people that made up the DEVELOPERS of UO2 contracts
Do you really think that they would let a 50million$ project go down the pans because Garriot does a JEERY MAGUIRE asking "WHO WILL COME WITH HIM" and they all leave?
No, like football players they will be tied to a contract and if they DID have a get out clause it would prevent them from working for another company in the same market for a year or more.....
Now, idiot of the year2001, can u please STFU unless u actualy know what you are talking about
