Comments on: HOOWAH! Player memorabilia

By: Ri

Ri — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:58:08 +0000

That shirt looks quite nice! It should prove to be excellent tribute.

By: ogur

ogur — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:44:16 +0000

UO made me laugh, cry, jump up and down in jubilation and destroy my keyboard in complete and utter frustration. It was quite the accomplishment. You guys are probably pretty proud of it, and you should be!
Shadowclan grew, thrived and morfed into the multi-national corporation it is today. But we have NEVER recaptured the beautiful flawed gem of playing early UO. Does it make me sad? You’re damn right. But, like lost love, I’m frickin’ glad I was there. There are no words to describe the experience.
So, uh, thanks Raph.

MURRY URUKMAZ!

By: sutton

sutton — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:47:39 +0000

Perhaps the person who sent you the check was hoping you WOULD cash it, meaning that you would have to sign the back. When it was returned, he would have your autograph

By: magicback (Frank)

magicback (Frank) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:04:45 +0000

Are there going to a RMT marketplace for Player memorabilia in Areae? Give us a virtual museum at least

By: vortexala

vortexala — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:07:50 +0000

I remember those sock puppets… i think most of the red-names got them at the same time.

I want to say they came from one of the correspondents at the time, but i can’t really recall. been a while…

By: Yak

Yak — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:05:52 +0000

Raph,
I was one of the Avian T&T guys from way back. SWG has been responsible for a lot in my life – I hired one of our guild members (after never meeting him in real life) to our consulting company, just based on his skills within the Guild. We also brought Ben Sawyer (who helped with your awesome Theory of Fun book) to our company for a brief attended by 300 members. We’re now setting up a Serious Games group. I attribute all of this to the new ideas you exposed me to in SWG. Thanks.

–Yak, one of the original Master Droid Engineers.

By: Janey

Janey — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:48:24 +0000

What a great entry.

You write things like this, and I feel like Edith Bunker at the Piano again.

By: Nurg

Nurg — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:19:47 +0000

Sad to say, I was still a cubbie around the time of UO, and never joined SC until UO was outdated. (Joined just pre-WoW) Anyways, I get all jealous when the misty-eyed Nobs blah about the “Good Ole Days”.

It’s makes me sad, that today’s games don’t quite allow the same level of free-form RP that was in most games back then. Ralph, people like you helped shape today’s RP community. I salute you! Enjoy your shirt!!

*raises drinkies* So,here’s to all you old timers. I wish I coulda been there.

HOOOWAH SHADDURKLAN!!

By: Tholal

Tholal — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:28:01 +0000

And every Shadowclan shirt comes with a free piece of hoomie-jerky! Hoowah!

By: Razorwire : News : Raph takes a trip down memory lane, swag-style

Razorwire : News : Raph takes a trip down memory lane, swag-style — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:50:05 +0000

[...] WoW Guilds var network_dropdown = new Dropdown(‘network_dropdown’,{use_submenu:0}); //network_dropdown.display_submenu(‘warcrynetwork’); Raph takes a trip down memory lane, swag-style razor posted on 19 Dec 2006, 04:19 PM Raph’s been around. He’s in that special Pantheon of MMO Developers. And one of the things that us mere mortals do is making offerings to the gods. So Raph took some time to tell us about some of the things he has collected over the years from players and a little bit about the ones who sent them: There was a camaraderie there that is missing for me now. Today Fan Faires are vast affairs, and while they still provide that emotional connection with fellow players, there isn’t quite the sense of being in on a secret anymore. Once upon a time, there were only a few sites you would even go to to discuss MMOs: The Vault network (today swallowed up by IGN, and unrecognizable from its origins); Crossroads, where most of the UO devs hung out for a long time; and Stratics, which is the only one that still resembles its original self… and of course, there were the Rantings of Lum the Mad, the original MMO rant site where invective flowed freely and devs ventured at their peril. Launch poorly, and you might be ridiculed so thoroughly that you might never live it down. [...]