Subishi: Broken Promises
Posted August 20, 2004 - 1:19 PM PDT by Adam Ant
I found this over at BattleVortex, looks like a story that needs telling.
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Subishi
(NOT a Stratics UO Moderator)
08/20/04 10:52 AM
Broken Promises
I've seen on other boards recently where people are questioning why the Siege players are so upset about the "shutting down of Siege" comment, why the poll shouldn't be open to everyone, and how Binky was just stating the truth, there's nothing wrong with that is there? So here are my views on why Binky's comment about the shutting down of Siege was just plain wrong --
I'll have to back up some and review the chain of events that led us here. A lot of you are new enough to the shard and/or Stratics so that you missed most of this, and it needs to be spelled out for anyone to have a clear idea of what exactly the uproar has been about. Bear with me, this will be long...
Our shard has long been neglected -- anyone who's played here any length of time can verify that. Things seemed to come to a head over the PBD issue, though -- when PBDs stopped being issued, many of us realized that things would quickly become so unbalanced that new people would no longer wish to play the shard. Combining this with the resist bug (people unable to gain resist over 90) and the broken factions, along with numerous other bugs (faction stat loss required to gain skills over 100, for example) -- all bugs that went on for months if not years, and which not only weren't fixed but weren't even acknowledged, Siege players were becoming testy.
Anyone remember the week when Siege crashed and reverted once or twice a day, big reverts, making the shard unplayable for an entire week, and OSI wouldn't even agree that it was happening? Or how about some of the emails that were received when people complained about the resist problem? Anyone remember Orlandu/Ezekiel and his crusade to see the resist bug fixed? That guy wouldn't give up and nagged on the boards daily, keeping a thread alive on UHall for 4 weeks -- 4 weeks of total and complete silence from OSI, I might add. Orlandu never had his concerns addressed, never had an answer in any of his threads, never had his emails responded to.
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