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Posted March 04, 2013
Most likely the announcement will have something to do with Garriot's "Ultimate RPG" he has in the works. He's said it will be a spiritual successor to Ultima games.
Posted March 04, 2013
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Stiler: What someone does with their own money is their business.

If you weren't aware Richard's father was an astronaut, and Richard has been wanting to go into space like his dad for a long long time, but he isn't an astronaut himself and thus he found a way to go through making his own money from gaming and what he did with his life, and imo there's not a DAMN thing wrong with that.

Being able to achieve a dream of yours from your own hard work, it's no ones right to say he shoulda spent money on this or that.

I for one would GLADLY pledge to a kickstarter from him if he was making a new pc based rpg or something like that.

If it's a social/facebook game though, I am not interested really.
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Crosmando: It's not a matter of him spending his money however he pleases.

The issue is, if he really cared about video games and RPG's, he wouldn't need to beg fans over Kickstarter to pay HIM to make a game, when he has/had the personal resources to make it himself. He should of made it himself and then sold it, otherwise it's just fundamentally dishonest.

Kickstarter is great for indies and mid-sized companies, but to have an ego-obsessed millionaire who lives in a mansion come on it, who hasn't been involved in making a good game in 21 years, and then expect the fans to empty their pockets for him, when he could fund it out of his own pocket change, is just disgusting.

Fools like you will get what you deserve.
Ego obsessed? You don't even know the guy and you seem to have some kind vendetta toward him.

Kickstarter, while helping fund projects, is not the same as "investing" (in which you usually get a return on your investment or own part of it).

It's more about helping people develop a game/idea and usually you get it (cheaper) by doing so, think of it as like a super early pre order.

On top of this, buy helping kickstart projects you like (no one forces you to use it, you don't want to help you DON'T have to) it allows them to do it themselves without having a publisher to tell them what to do and control the ip that the developer creates. It allows them for more freedom to do what they want rather then a Marketing firm that tells them what's "Best."

I guess that makes me a "fool" according to you, to help someone create something I have an interest in and in return I get to both help that happen and get it cheaper then retail, plus usually some goodies to go along with it that you can't get later on.
Post edited March 04, 2013 by Stiler
Posted March 04, 2013
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Crosmando: Some very naive and silly people in this thread.
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Crosmando: Fools like you will get what you deserve.
Why do you sound so angry?
Posted March 04, 2013
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McDon: Probably a new free-to-play Ultima branded majiggery.

If it's an actual full blown RPG I'd be pretty amazed and defiantly interested...but then again EA have noticed Skyrim's success...
How is one defiantly interested?
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Crosmando: Fools like you will get what you deserve.
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Nomad_Soul: Why do you sound so angry?
Never ask him that question.
Post edited March 04, 2013 by Rohan15
Posted March 04, 2013
Will I get to see him Hulk out? :)
Posted March 04, 2013
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Nomad_Soul: Will I get to see him Hulk out? :)
Worse....he'll go into condescending prick overdrive.
Posted March 04, 2013
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oldschool: I remember, I also remember that player was perma-banned for cheating. With tons of F2Play MMO's on the horizon, I see him working again to somehow revamp Ultima Online. This of course is just total speculation on my part. What I would love to see is one more Ultima game to makeup for U9.
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McDon: It said in the link actually :P You need to eat more carrots :)
But not too many carrots. Otherwise his skin may turn orange. ;)
Posted March 04, 2013
I really liked Tabula Rasa. Just throwing that out there to show that I think he's been involved in making something noteworthy relatively recently.
Post edited March 04, 2013 by Whitecroc
Posted March 04, 2013
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Crosmando: He should of made it himself and then sold it, otherwise it's just fundamentally dishonest.
Dishonest how?

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Crosmando: but to have an ego-obsessed millionaire who lives in a mansion come on it, who hasn't been involved in making a good game in 21 years.
You didn't like Ultima VII: Part II? I am playing it now. I think its great.

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Crosmando: Fools like you will get what you deserve.
Discounted ownership of the spiritual successor to the Ultima series?
Posted March 04, 2013
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Crosmando: Fools like you will get what you deserve.
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Nomad_Soul: Why do you sound so angry?
I have an eternal personal vendetta against Richard Garriot for making Ultima IX, which ruined my favorite game series and my extension my childhood

may or may not be true :/
Posted March 06, 2013
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McDon: Probably a new free-to-play Ultima branded majiggery.

If it's an actual full blown RPG I'd be pretty amazed and defiantly interested...but then again EA have noticed Skyrim's success...
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Rohan15: How is one defiantly interested?
Meant definitely :P
Damn autospell thingy
Posted March 06, 2013
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Rohan15: How is one defiantly interested?
You don't want me interested in this?! Ha! I'll show you!!
Posted March 06, 2013
Hm, Torment is going through the roof. Will Garriott be able to match this? What d'you think?
Posted March 06, 2013
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Rohan15: How is one defiantly interested?
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adambiser: You don't want me interested in this?! Ha! I'll show you!!
Curses!!!
Posted March 06, 2013
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Nergal01: Hm, Torment is going through the roof. Will Garriott be able to match this? What d'you think?
It'd the first big RPG kickstarter that isn't Interplay game-based in a while...it just might.
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