Would you like to own a “Lord British Blood Reliquary” containing Richard Garriott’s actual blood? Now is your chance! The Tabula Rasa developer is selling artwork containing his blood for the low-low price of $5000 (around £3852) via eBay alongside a selection of items from his new MMO, Shroud of the Avatar.
To prove this is real, the blood was drawn from Garriott during a livestream yesterday. “We are literally giving our blood to the playerbase,” he explained to the bemused looking nurse who had come to stick him with a needle. I hope this means that there will be sweat and tears containers for sale soon.
Update: Over the weekend, eBay removed the Garriott blood auction from its listings, quite possibly because it's a violation of eBay's policy against selling human remains and body parts.
The listings have been moved to Shroud of the Avatar's own Make a Difference store, where two reliquaries have already sold for $6,000 and $8,000 each, and another is still available for $11,000.
Well there's that one fan for Star Citizen having bought every bit of content released thus far (For a total of some 20.000 or so dollars, probably more now as more content has been released since that article.) so yeah, fans can be pretty dedicated or how to say.
(Or scary, someone will probably make a voodoo doll or other fetish from this or possibly drink the damn thing during live streaming...)
Amazing system requirements: Minimum - Intel HD 4000. Recommended - GTX 1070. So in Low graphic settings it looks like Gothic 1 and in High it looks like The Witcher 3? Haven't seen such godlike optimization... like never? The game looks like a scam just by looking at these requirements.
I admit I never played any Ultima game but was interested in the game. Almost backed it too but the way someone crying for money who spent $30 million for a space trip few years before the kickstarter was too smelly and I completely forgot about this game since then. And it seems for good.
It doesn't surprise me. The end game is nothing like what they promised. They promised an Ultima experience and what we got was a very generic game that couldn't even get the basics right. Character movement feels odd, graphics almost feel as if you're playing a browser game in Java, the interface is weird, etc. It all feels extremely incompetent and at no point did I feel I was playing a proper game. It feels like a really really early alpha used to showcase potential and even failing at that.
You can compare it to a coat rack made out of very thin iron bars which gets way too heavy clothes thrown upon it. They tried to run before they could even walk and while the premise is good, the execution is a joke. The assets don't work together, they look cheap (even free) and it makes the entire game lack character.
When you consider how the original Ultima games had kick ass music, pretty great art, decent writing, fun exploration, etc. this feels like an insult. Ultima IX, which so many consider a disaster, is a million times more enjoyable than this!
EDIT: Eh I suppose it's unfortunate and all for those who had actually hoped for Ultima X or when it shifted more towards a MMO something along the lines of Ultima Online 2 but things have looked bad for the game for months now and it's getting worse.
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Did he drop 40k DOLLARS into this game?!
Seriously, that's retarded beyond reason and he deserves to get fucked.
Investing such an amount into some digital game (which in theory can cease to exist anytime), just to hope he could make profit later on it.
Should have invested in real life properties instead.
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Well it works for some people in games such as Second Life I suppose, however in this case trying to invest via a early-access alpha version of a MMO for which the development is looking more and more troubled and where from what I've read Richard G. himself apparently isn't all that involved since a few years back well that's not a very good investment.
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues is a multiplayer fantasy RPG and the spiritual successor to Richard Garriott’s wildly successful Ultima and Ultima Online games.
The sad part is that I can see some elements of Ultima Online 2. UO is still my favorite MMO of all the ones I played because of its size and stuff you could do - it was massive - and the tension of player killers, player stores, designing your own house, exploring enemy filled lands, finding secrets, etc.
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