6/30/2023 0 Comments Shrouds of the avatar download![]() ![]() ![]() Shroud of the Avatar was Kickstarted earlier this year and came in with $1.9 million, almost double the initial target. Ultima Online immediately became the fastest selling PC game in Origin and EA history and within two years had outsold all the previous Ultimas combined, several times over." ![]() "It was really Starr who sat me down and said 'look Richard, the Internet is coming, now is the time.' Though it was often me arguing the case in front of Electronic Arts management it was really Starr's belief that we could pull this off and his insistence that I keep fighting that good battle by which we finally got the game - begrudging shall we say - greenlit by EA. "We looked at the old dial-up multiplayer games and MUDs and it didn't seem to be a business that was useful at the scale we needed. "Even before Starr had come to Origin we had always talked about doing a multiplayer Ultima game," recalls Garriott, the creator of the Ultima series. Garriott says that, although he was the public face of the developer Origin, although he was the one who persuaded Electronic Arts to green-light the risky project, it was Long who had framed the idea in the first place, and who pushed for its acceptance. Starr worked with Garriott on Ultima Online, the first large-scale, commercially successful MMORPG, and the game that set the stage for Everquest, World of Warcraft and all that followed. Sure, Portalarium founder Garriott has enough respect for the proper forms of gaming's creative narrative to couch that claim in caveats, but the implication is unavoidable. He says Starr, who is being announced today as executive producer of Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, pretty much invented MMOs. Richard Garriott credits his new Portalarium teammate Starr Long with one of the most important discoveries in the history of games. ![]()
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