KickStarter Shroud of the Avatar - Lord British's Not-Ultima Online 2

[evdk]

Jaesun
Is it? They never used it in game AFAIK, and obviously he wouldn't use any names. Just people who have escaped the destruction of their old world led by their monarch, Lord British. He has rights for him.

 

[Stabwound]

Actually, the more I read about this, all signs point to this being his "Ultimate RPG" which has always been touted as being an online/social game with mobile devices the primary platform. So yeah, 1% interest dropped back down to 0.1% now.

It uses the same icons/logos, etc.

 

[HobGoblin42]

EA/Mythic is already raping the Ultima series with F2P mobile casual cartoon crap called 'Ultima Forever'.
Please, Lord British, I beg you, do the excact opposite with your new project or your legacy will suffer irretrievably.

And please keep out Zynga.

 

[DeepOcean]

I'm very cautious about this, Garriot had 30 million dollars to burn on a space trip and don't have money to make a game? This shows where his priorities are. He could easily took 5 million dollars from his fortune and make an Ultima spiritual sequel, it would be guaranteed money but get free money from Kickstarter is way too tempting (I guess he is seeing the success of Obsidian and Inxile and want a few millions too). He need to do extra effort to clean his name or I want his kickstarter to fail very hard.

 

[mindx2]

I'm very cautious about this, Garriot had 30 million dollars to burn on a space trip and don't have money to make a game? This shows where his priorities are. He could easily took 5 million dollars from his fortune and make an Ultima spiritual sequel, it would be guaranteed money but get free money from Kickstarter is way too tempting (I guess he is seeing the success of Obsidian and Inxile and want a few millions too). He need to do extra effort to clean his name or I want his kickstarter to fail very hard.

Just a thought but maybe he'll do a Fargo-like thing and pledge to throw so much of his own money on top of whatever he gets on KS?

 

[DeepOcean]

I'm very cautious about this, Garriot had 30 million dollars to burn on a space trip and don't have money to make a game? This shows where his priorities are. He could easily took 5 million dollars from his fortune and make an Ultima spiritual sequel, it would be guaranteed money but get free money from Kickstarter is way too tempting (I guess he is seeing the success of Obsidian and Inxile and want a few millions too). He need to do extra effort to clean his name or I want his kickstarter to fail very hard.

Just a thought but maybe he'll do a Fargo-like thing and pledge to throw so much of his own money on top of whatever he gets on KS?

I don't know man, he could do that, but after Ultima 8, 9, Tabula Rasa and his enthusiastic acceptance of the casual/mobile gaming crap it is hard to trust him.

 

[Infinitron]

Kenneth says: http://ultimacodex.com/2013/03/lord-british-presents-a-countdown/comment-page-1/

It will almost certainly be a social game, unless Portalarium have heavily overhauled their business model.

It will be “fair handshake”-based free-to-play, as Garriott has stated in several interviews.

It’ll likely be multiplayer to some extent, possibly with PvP.

And it may or may not also target mobile. Garriott is a fan of mobile, which is actually quite versatile and makes an excellent gaming platform. But that’s rather more speculative than the rest of the above.

 

[mindx2]

I'm very cautious about this, Garriot had 30 million dollars to burn on a space trip and don't have money to make a game? This shows where his priorities are. He could easily took 5 million dollars from his fortune and make an Ultima spiritual sequel, it would be guaranteed money but get free money from Kickstarter is way too tempting (I guess he is seeing the success of Obsidian and Inxile and want a few millions too). He need to do extra effort to clean his name or I want his kickstarter to fail very hard.

Just a thought but maybe he'll do a Fargo-like thing and pledge to throw so much of his own money on top of whatever he gets on KS?

I don't know man, he could do that, but after Ultima 8, 9, Tabula Rasa and his enthusiastic acceptance of the casual/mobile gaming crap it is hard to trust him.

Oh, believe me, I've got zero interest in this thing exactly because of what you mentioned! It will have to be the most spectacular KS pitch in history for me to begin to think about pledging any of my hard earned dollars.

 

[Jaesun]

ugh.

 

[Junmarko]

It would be interesting if this actually turns out to be a pseudo Ultima 10. Probably not in a good way, but still interesting.

Hasn't he already announced the Ultimate RPG in way though? He has pretty much said a while ago that it's going to be an online browser-based game. So unless this big announcement is going to be something else, why is he wasting our time.
We can only hope for a sequel to Ultima 7

 

[FeelTheRads]

Why the fuck do they want to use Kickstarter for F2P crap? Goddamnit, I bet the sheeple will be all over this.

 

[Jaesun]

EA and Richard just don't get it. Looking forward to this Kickstarter bomb.

 

[mindx2]

EA and Richard just don't get it. Looking forward to this Kickstarter bomb.

I really hope it does and it sends a very clear message to Garriott that people who fund KS games DO NOT WANT THAT CRAP!!!

 

[Saduj]

This jackass could raise the amount of money he'd get from a kickstarter by just cancelling one of his parties . His running a kickstarter would be equivalent to a gainfully employed person dressing up like the homeless and panhandling on the weekends. Even from a publicity standpoint, he doesn't need Kickstarter. This isn't a situation where you'd be helping someone who otherwise can't make their game. Its more a situaiton where your contributions will prevent him from having to choose between making a game or holding his next cash bonfire.

 

[mindx2]

one of his parties

The NYT cannot into gaming history:

who made his first million after developing the multiplayer online role-playing game Ultima while in his early 20s,

 

[Stabwound]

I get the feeling he doesn't give a shit about making money; he now lives in a fantasy land where he loves online/social bullshit and he's going to do that because he wants to. Or maybe he really is that delusional and thinks he's going to strike it rich again with Facebook games.

 

[Jaesun]

I think he is delusional and thinks he is going to be the next Zynga, who is currently on fire and spinning out of control and will crash soon.

 

[Brother None]

You guys raise valid concerns but I'll have to point out we've already seen both a successful Kickstarter from an over-the-hill developer who doesn't actually need the money, and a successful Kickstarter for a F2P game. Admittedly neither were hits, but they did both make it. I'm not sure the Kickstarter crowd is quite as discerning as all that.

 

[Jaesun]

Good point, however this is aimed at fans of the Ultima series. I have a feeling not many want to play a shitty F2P MMO social game.

 

[Saduj]

one of his parties

The NYT cannot into gaming history:

who made his first million after developing the multiplayer online role-playing game Ultima while in his early 20s,

Let's hope they were equally inaccurate when describing what was going on in the "hedonism" tent.

A naked woman painted like a zebra lounged in a glass box as actors passed out creamy alcoholic drinks and chocolate-dipped bananas to the crowd

 

[80Maxwell08]

You guys raise valid concerns but I'll have to point out we've already seen both a successful Kickstarter from an over-the-hill developer who doesn't actually need the money, and a successful Kickstarter for a F2P game. Admittedly neither were hits, but they did both make it. I'm not sure the Kickstarter crowd is quite as discerning as all that.

I think a difference here would be that Molyneux still wanted to make a god game and McGee wanted to make an free to play diablo style Action RPG, which are already on the free to play market. Right now Ultima fans are pissed as hell with Mythic's Ultima game and Richard Garriot is going to come out and do basically the same thing but have Lord British instead of Lady British and that's just going to work? I don't entirely think so. Maybe he proves all of us wrong and comes out with the most hardcore RPG on kickstarter to date but I would say the chances of that are very slim. Not saying you are wrong with him having a decent chance at getting the money but I still wouldn't bet on it right now. Of course it's all speculation right now so all we can do is wait.

 

[DeepOcean]

EA and Richard just don't get it. Looking forward to this Kickstarter bomb.

I really hope it does and it sends a very clear message to Garriott that people who fund KS games DO NOT WANT THAT CRAP!!!

If the KS fail he will just invent a excuse to save his face like: "People don't want an Ultima game anymore", "I tried to innovate too much." or a very common one "kickstarter fatigue".

 

[Infinitron]

EA and Richard just don't get it. Looking forward to this Kickstarter bomb.

I really hope it does and it sends a very clear message to Garriott that people who fund KS games DO NOT WANT THAT CRAP!!!

If the KS fail he will just invent a excuse to save his face like: "People don't want an Ultima game anymore", "I tried to innovate too much." or a very common one "kickstarter fatigue".

And the Codex will point and laugh.

 

[mindx2]

Kenneth says: http://ultimacodex.com/2013/03/lord-british-presents-a-countdown/comment-page-1/

They seem to have deleted my responses over at ultimacodex . I guess LB won't be able to read my reaction to his latest casual, F2P, MMO masterpiece.

 

[Infinitron]

Kenneth says: http://ultimacodex.com/2013/03/lord-british-presents-a-countdown/comment-page-1/

They seem to have deleted my responses over at ultimacodex . I guess LB won't be able to read my reaction to his latest casual, F2P, MMO masterpiece.

I see your responses. Or were there more?