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posted by martyb on Wednesday December 27 2017, @12:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the eat-me dept.

ArsTechnica has a very interesting video (with transcript) that features Richard Garriot, co-creator of Ultima Online, discussing the virtual ecology of the game and how it went pear shaped as soon as the game was released.

When creating Ultima Online, Richard Garriott had grand dreams. He and Starr Long planned on implementing a virtual ecology into their massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It was an ambitious system, one that would have cows that graze and predators that eat herbivores. However, once the game went live a small problem had arisen...

Source: http://video.arstechnica.com/watch/war-stories-ultima-online-the-virtual-ecology [Ed-Requires ecmascript]


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 27 2017, @02:32PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 27 2017, @02:32PM (#614742)

    it was just a giant block of text, like if they only provided it because they spent too much money recording the video and getting the ad network set up for the videos to care at all about people that prefer to not annoy their coworkers and consume video bandwidth at work

    that site is going to go out of business if conde naste keeps thinking that IT people behave like regular kardashian watchers

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday December 27 2017, @03:21PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday December 27 2017, @03:21PM (#614753) Journal

    And the transcript window is an abomination. Down with video!

  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday December 27 2017, @07:11PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Wednesday December 27 2017, @07:11PM (#614836) Journal

    I had to copy-paste the whole thing into another window just to read it too because they decided to fuck up the scroll bars on the transcript window...the video refused to load too, but I was actually happy about that particular issue...

  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday December 27 2017, @09:46PM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday December 27 2017, @09:46PM (#614881) Journal

    It is made for tablets
    Format is fine on an ipad, but I did have to change my user agent back to "ipad"

    Everything Conde Nast does "online" is made for tablets.

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    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 27 2017, @11:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 27 2017, @11:28PM (#614917)

    Lucky ars isn't full of IT people then. It's all tech illiterate hipsters and shills.