This Smacks of Effort
Date: September 12th, 2000 @ 21:27
Asheron’s Call has a major upgrade in today. So major, in fact, that if Turbine were Verant or Origin, they’d put it in a new box, call it an expansion, and charge you $25 a pop for it. GameCenter’s article about it is worth looking at - be sure to check out the pictures.
A comparison is in order. To make things blindingly obvious, negatives are in red, positives in blue.
|
UO at |
UO now |
AC at release |
AC now |
|
| Date/Time | September 1997 | 36 months | November 1999 | 10 months |
| Dungeons | 7 (8 with Wind) |
20 (22 with Wind) |
~190 | 220 |
| Production Servers |
3 | 22 | 6 | 7 |
| Raistlins | 70 | 894 | 6 | 7 |
| GM Darwins | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Neis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ex-Lead Developers |
1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Annual Dev Team Turnover |
marginal | Menudo | marginal | marginal |
| Average Time Between Plot Advancement |
6 months | what plot? | 30 days | 30 days |
| Players Having Participated in a Plot-related Event |
158 | 847 | 1100 | 80573 |
| Man-Hours Devoted to Fearing Upcoming Patch |
1,920,000 | 24,000,000 | 0 | 0 |
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