Bowen Bloodgood:reasons people quit and the egg that follows

Isn't this the same guy who said it wasn't unlikely to have 500,000 players after launch?

In fairness, I can understand his reasoning - to a point. Axes, particularly battle axes, were blunted after the prominence of plate. While a sharp axe might cut into the plate or even cleave through mail, the blunt axe would take all the concussive threat of a mace (ignoring the physical barrier and damaging internal organs and bones through the armor) and channel it into a narrower point (focusing the force in order to do more damage). A rounded mace would spread the impact and therefore the potential damage, so a blunt axe fixes this by putting more concussive potential into a smaller area, ie. it breaks shit easier, yo.

That being said, axes cleave. They cut and separate in the same motion, not unlike swords (although, arguably, most swords take two simultaneous motions - one to cut, to make contact, and another to draw, to pass the blade through flesh and meat more easily with the edge). This is just bad planning. Combat skills should be based on the style of weapons, not whether or not the axe head is blunt or sharp. Maces require little finesse and skill to use; an amateur flailing a mace is just as apt to break bones and crush skulls as a veteran warrior. A fencer versus a kid picking up a rapier for the first time, however, is the difference between nicking the skin and slicing a hand off; swinging a rapier doesn't have the same effects as draw cuts or push cuts, and percussive hits with such weapons would rarely be incapacitating in any manner, much less deadly.

Instead, it should have been something like Swordplay (to take into account broadswords, backswords, longswords, KATANA-DESU, bastard swords, great swords, arming swords, falchions, etc.), as the physics involved in using those weapons is ultimately the same; Fencing (rapiers, epees, estocs), since stabbing and point defense is key to fighting with those weapons; Polearms (halberds, polehammers, spears, demi lances, pitchforks, quarter staves), because how you hit with the pointy end is only as important in how you fight with the haft and define your measure; Axes (great axes, hatchets, double axes, bearded axes), because while it can be blunt or sharp, how you strike with the weapon and the circumstances in which an axe is actually useful in a fight make it unique; and Bludgeons (maces, mauls, clubs, war hammers, flails), since these weapons require close quarters, are meant for anti-armor and do not fight in any way, shape or form like the other weapons before it.

But that's just the nerd in me hoping for less fuckery in game design and more depth.

TL;DR: Port fucked up.

OT. This is the kind of lazy bullshit argument that really gets my SotA lingerie up in a wad. Starr Long is correct about one thing, making the SotA sausage isn't pretty at all. And the thing is Bowen is smart enough to realize this. So what is the problem? Why does he and everyone else assume that the only reason people are leaving SotA is because of the time it is taking to push out the game?

The game is severely delayed due to Player Owned Towns, but it didn't have to be. It would still have been delayed without POTs, but it just adds insult to injury. But that isn't the reason people are selling out. Read between the fucking lines SotA forum-norm. How many people have you seen leave recently? Go read their posts, don't be lazy twats, go and learn the context of their departure.

It doesn't have to be delay of game. Could it possibly be all of the Pay 4 Advantage stuff? All of the Whales piling onto any sort of opinion which doesn't support their decided direction of swimming thus resulting in harassment? The fact that what we currently have(dewd says horseshit) doesn't look, sound, or feel like RG's UltimateRPG???

NAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Fuck you InsaneMembrane you toxic flower, you know nothing!

Its annoying that if they stuck to the core game, they could of had all these expansions of POTs etc to keep people plaing.

Furre if they worked hard in building the infrastructure to be able to insert new quests it would cut down time on building new stories and quest lines.

I mean to use emulated UO servers, look how much content motivated servers could produce every month

Indeed, nothing is wrong because it is just Alpha and unfinished... New guild name idea:

4A
Forever Alpha

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Ya, agreed, the fact they keep saying people are tired of waiting, what a copout. Or that it wasn't "UO2" when they virtually billed it as such. Expectations they set. Not hopes people had without being plied to expect something.

They don't really bother to read the details of why people are disgruntled, otherwise they couldn't say something like that.

They also billed it as a Ultima game, not the online one....

Never let a chance to pull extra subscriptions in, even if it is just one month and just to see the LB in his second native habitat.

I know, I also thought he took a few tours of real UO servers? My bad if he didn't. I never did quite get why EA lets the free servers go.