UO Website Getting a Makeover Anytime Soon?

Yesterday, on the official Warhammer forums Kai Schober discussed some of the updates behind the Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning websites. Originally the Warhammer Online website was scheduled to be updated/redesigned by the end of August. While the biggest delay has obviously been the Account Management System migration for all three games, he gave a little more detail about the update:

The version update of the DAoC web site comes first, then we’ll launch the WAR site, which is almost completely converted by now. (Yes, this mean another delay.)

RealmWar won’t be part of the functionality of the new site.

About an hour ago he mentioned another delay:

Update it from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. That update delayed the WAR page, too.

If you’re curious about the Dark Age of Camelot website update (you can see the site at DarkAgeofCamelot), here’s a video they made about it:

With all of the attention being given to the DAoC and WAR websites, and with the move of DAoC form CamelotHerald.com to DarkAgeofCamelot.com, here’s hoping Ultima Online’s website gets a makeover and moves back to UO.com. UO desperately needs a website makeover and needs to go back to UO.com. At the same time, they can’t lose the things that are still present on UO.com, and they need to bring back the MyUO.com aspects (and similar functionality was removed from the DAoC and WAR websites, probably due to the account migration).

Still Having Account Management Problems?

Somebody asked me to post this, and I’m more than happy to oblige. Some people are still having problems with the new account management system that Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning are now under. This includes just getting logged in properly, linking accounts, activating inactive accounts, etc.

There have now been three guides put together:
* Login to Account Management
* Account Management Part 2
* Account Management Part 3

The guides have been assembled by “Bioware Linda” and whoever “Bioware Linda is, I salute you.

It really defies logic why these aren’t on the Accounts.EAMythic.com website or on the three official websites for the games, in a prominent place.

If a UO or Warhammer Online player, or even a Dark Age of Camelot player has a question that could be answered by one of these guides, are we expected to figure out that the answers might be on the Dark Age of Camelot Wiki?

Wikia.com isn’t even an official EA website, although that is the official Dark Age of Camelot Wiki. As a UO player, do you automatically assume you should head over to the Dark Age of Camelot Wiki for the answers to your questions?

How much time is being wasted reading internet forums or calling up or chatting online with EA customer support when many answers can be found in the above guides?

Kai Schober, if you can post in this BioWare forums thread this morning surely you can get these guides up on the three official websites. All you have to do is copy and paste those links to each of the websites – you all copy-and-paste posts between the three websites anyways.

I’m not trying to be a jerk about it, but you all have people quitting in frustration, and you could save players from all three games a lot of trouble and effort.

Ultima I-III Available at Good Old Games

Last week it was reported that Good Old Games would be selling Ultima I-III and they are now doing so.

If you’re only experience with the Ultima series of games is Ultima Online, you’ll be in for a bit of a surprise.

$5.99 gets you the following:
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness
Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress
Ultima III: Exodus
Manuals, Cluebook, Spellbook, and Maps

You can find the games, screenshots, and information at GOG’s Ultima I-III page.

Ultima Aiera is celebrating by posting several stories, videos, and information about the Ultima I-III games, including a look at the difference in platforms, the introductions, and many other things.

Account Maintenance, Sonoma vs Catskills

Catching up on some news, yesterday, the Account Management Center was taken down for a few hours to fix a few more issues.

Last week, a challenge was issued to Sonoma and Sonoma has accepted a new Cross Shard Treasure Hunt Challenge:

Three days ago we saw a note with a challenge from the people of Catskills to Sonoma. This is the answer we received:

Sonoma graciously accepts your challenge with the battle cry of, “Bring it!”

The Catskills smack down will be held on Test Center on Saturday 9/17 at 6:00 pm PDT (9:00 pm EDT).

See you there!

EM Sangria and EM Eira

May the best team win!

BioWare Mythic – Fairfax – Hope Everything is Okay

Out of curiosity, I’ve been looking at the Fairfax County Emergency blog and it’s pretty rough in that area this evening, thanks to Hurricane Irene.

In case you’re not aware, Fairfax county is in Virginia near the eastern seabord and it just so happens that it is the location for BioWare Mythic, aka the Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning teams. I did not hear whether any developers from the area evacuated – it looks like they mainly are having to deal with power outages and some flooding.