• Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Down with EA, they killed PS3 Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare servers while leaving xbox 360 servers up. They hate poor people.

  • mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip
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    3 days ago

    He’s getting the copyright back, but not the trademark. Tbh, I think it would be way cooler if we got a “new” Ultima game in like 2005 than today.

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        4 days ago

        iirc there was no god-mode at the time. Thats probably the event that prompted it. You’re talking about when that player pick pocketed that scroll off of someone else in the audience and cast it on Lord British right? That story is so wild.

  • GaryGhost@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    He’s a scam!! I am a shroud of the avatar donor, it had potential but he took the money and ran. He went to outer space instead finishing the development of sota. It was an awesome game, I loved it. It’s ruined. He will likely put the bare minimum into ultima, before fleeing with a big bag of cash.

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    5 days ago

    Never played any of the games, but I’ve been watching a YouTube series about the history of the series, and would love to play a modern title!

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          9 hours ago

          It’s a great series. The thing that bothers me is seeing how EA’s always had predatory practices and how the games industry has always had the issues we’re seeing today but on a smaller scale.

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            8 hours ago

            It’s basically the same thing every product goes through under capitalism - when the ultimate goal is to make as much capital as quickly as possible, eventually everything profitable gets bought up to be squeezed of its profits until it stops making money, and is then abandoned for the next thing. EA is just a product of a system designed to incentivize their exact business strategy, and there are many more like them.

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    5 days ago

    I would normally be VERY happy about this, but I saw the mess that he made of Shroud of the Avatar. That doesn’t fill me with a lot of hope.

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      5 days ago

      Some of my first memories were of watching my parents play Ultima 4. :D

      Sometimes I wonder if the Ultima games were some of the first open-world games.

      • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
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        5 days ago

        Ultima 6 was my first real love for the series but I loved 7 the most. I loved the magic carpet in 7 as a kid.