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Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:05 am
by Dominus

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:40 pm
by drcode
Sad, although they've been "Origin" in name only for a few years now. It's certainly too bad for the employees who have to either face unemployment or a move to Los Angeles.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:20 pm
by The Ghost of Skutarth
Let them die. They are no longer the real Origin.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:25 pm
by WishStone Dragon
I would wish them to either find a new home together, away from EA, or to get together and build something new.

Sadly, you guys before me were right. That wasn`t Origin anymore. It was a handpuppet for EA. But if I look back on the (partly gross) changes UO alone went through.. *shakes her head* Nope. Not OSI.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:22 am
by Dupre
I wonder wheather Richard Garriot could 'legally' use the name Origin again, considering that it was originally his company that he started in the 80's.

As for the programmers, I feel bad for them as they are caught in the middle of this corporate nonsense. I wish them the best.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:43 am
by Colourless
Not a chance. EA has owned the Trademark rights to the Origin name since they acquired the company oh so many years ago (1993?).

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 11:43 am
by The Ghost of Skutarth
If it shuts down forever, and it becomes public domain, then if you want the SNES version of Savage empire, just ask me to mail it to you.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 12:57 pm
by Dominus
expect a mail from me in about 50 years or so.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:00 pm
by Sean Whalen
Thank God, I've been hoping this would happen on or off for years, now if they'd only shut down the Ultima name.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:55 am
by Oblivious
^^Not a chance, EA is too evil for that.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 11:18 pm
by Sean Whalen
I read on Horizons Tavern now that Cynthe and Calandryll have left and it's rumored the UO Lead Designer Evocare might of already left for Blizzard to work on World of Warcraft, saw it on uo.stratics.com. Burn baby burn!!! I feel bad about the people who lost jobs though, but I really do want Ultima to die out completely.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:15 am
by Macaw
I want it to die out to, unless Richard Garriott get the rights to it again.. Which is a very low chance :(

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:38 am
by The Big Joke
Aye, its indeed a sad thing to see what have hapend to OSI.

UO aint as bad as you people seem to think of it thought. True, its not what it used to be, but at least there is a well developed RP comunity on the european "shard", wich makes it worth its monthly cost.

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 8:11 pm
by Oblivious
You forget. Most Ultima fans will never warm up to UO, because it is what caused the destruction of the Ultima series (well, aside from EA that is)

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:37 am
by Dupre
I agree with Oblivious. Most UO fans that did play it left because it bore little resemblance to the Ultima series. ( present company included ).

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 3:49 pm
by Iceshard-
I played UO up until right after AoS (Age of Shadows, to my knowledge, latest expansion) came out. I left simply because of so many ignored (They even said, somewhere, that they weren't going to even touch them for a few months, at least) bugs, and when people got struck by them and lost everything, including no drop items, they had no way to get them back. (Wonder why I left... Where is my spell book!?)

Re: Slightly OT: EA shuts down Origin for good

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:10 am
by Oblivious
Mitchell, your story sounds so familiar... (UA, anyone?)