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Posted January 25, 2010
What if we're thinking too small? An interview last year claimed that we would get "one of the three" big companies starting this year. What if that's just the beginning? What if by "Troika" they mean THREE GIANT GAME COMPANIES?
Posted January 25, 2010
you know all you ultima fan boys get find a whole bunch of them( including ultima 7,ultima pagan, and underworld) over at abandonia?
Posted January 25, 2010
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mossah: you know all you ultima fan boys get find a whole bunch of them( including ultima 7,ultima pagan, and underworld) over at abandonia?

We frown on abandonware here. Just because it isn't protected doesn't mean it's legal.
Posted January 25, 2010
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TheCheese33: What if we're thinking too small? An interview last year claimed that we would get "one of the three" big companies starting this year. What if that's just the beginning? What if by "Troika" they mean THREE GIANT GAME COMPANIES?

i would ruin my pants
Posted January 25, 2010
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mossah: you know all you ultima fan boys get find a whole bunch of them( including ultima 7,ultima pagan, and underworld) over at abandonia?

Would Red_Avatar please give him a medal.;P
Posted January 25, 2010
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mossah: you know all you ultima fan boys get find a whole bunch of them( including ultima 7,ultima pagan, and underworld) over at abandonia?

Please lets not start another abandonware 'debate'.
Posted January 25, 2010
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captfitz: but i still stand with my main point: troika was an intentional clue bro. that, or sock in mouth.
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Delixe: TBH it should be socks plural now. One for it being EA and the other for being wrong about Troika. Perhaps a Casserole? :D

sonuvabitch i can't avoid a sock anymore can i? i think i'm at the point where i'm just hoping for a minimal amount of socks
Posted January 25, 2010
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mossah: you know all you ultima fan boys get find a whole bunch of them( including ultima 7,ultima pagan, and underworld) over at abandonia?

Rather buy them and encourage EA to release more classic titles on GOG thanks.
Posted January 25, 2010
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mossah: you know all you ultima fan boys get find a whole bunch of them( including ultima 7,ultima pagan, and underworld) over at abandonia?
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TheCheese33: We frown on abandonware here. Just because it isn't protected doesn't mean it's legal.

But for god's sake, anyone who feels the irrepressible urge to start an off topic discussion about this, please go here (off-topic-ness included).
WE NEED TO STAY ON TOPIC!! FOCUS!!
The three publisher's thing actually crossed my mind, but hoping for that seems a bit risky.. that'd be too awesome.
Post edited January 25, 2010 by LordCinnamon
Posted January 25, 2010
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captfitz: they are hinting that troika is one of the developers that is being brought in with the new publisher. it's narrowing it down without giving it away!

If the sentence itself would also be a somewhat clear hint at a Troika game I'd give you that. As is ... I am not convinced. The Troika thing might just be a coincidence as a result of GOG scrambling the message on purpose.
For now ... nah - not enough data. Everything is speculation.
Post edited January 25, 2010 by Mnemon
Posted January 25, 2010
(Reply/quote system acted up, and I had to manually patch up -- hope I got it right)
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Delixe: And i say it was. Are you telling me GOG simply put together a random phrase to spell out Troika? A random phrase that just so happens to be a huge clue to Ultima?
Karmic System. Troika didn't use one, its an obscure reference if thats the case. Ultima however DID use a Karmic system.
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captfitz: it's not a random phrase, it means something, but the more important meaning is the clue they put in there. TOEE is D&D and your character can be 'chaotic good' or other moral alignments, which it could easily be referring to. or it could be another clue on its own. but there is absolutely no way that troika is a coincidence. if the hint is karma, why did they put 'incredible' and 'awareness' in around it? those are both entirely unnecessary to the clue and slightly awkward there anyway, they were just needed to spell out troika.

Just for the hell of it, I feel I should point out that the developers that made up Troika were heavy developers in Fallout, which did have a Karma system (right there on the character sheet for everyone to see). So the games written by Troika Games did not have Karma, but some of the games written by Troika developers did. I actually had to stop and think about the Troika Games part, because I initially (incorrectly) made the Karma==Troika connection through Fallout...
Posted January 25, 2010
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captfitz: sonuvabitch i can't avoid a sock anymore can i? i think i'm at the point where i'm just hoping for a minimal amount of socks

Tell you what how about a wager and forget the socks? If it's EA (and i'm not entirely convinced it is, just the evidence points to it for me) then you buy me the first released game on GOG from them. If however it's Troika then I buy you the first game released from them.
Posted January 25, 2010
after thinking it some more i refuse to believe the gog team would give away the answer so fast, the TROIKA hint seems too obvious.
Posted January 25, 2010
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captfitz: sonuvabitch i can't avoid a sock anymore can i? i think i'm at the point where i'm just hoping for a minimal amount of socks

Actually, we demand video. You can't expect simple typing like you've got your mouth full to fool us.
Posted January 25, 2010
Alright Chaps!
What's going on then, have I missed anything?
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