I can understand where Krrios is comming from but it seems like he doesn't have enough time to work on PlayUO and with updates that far inbetween it just doesn't seem worth using PlayUO. But ya, and opensource client is dangerous.
I understand where he's coming from, too. Totally get it. I still think it's wrong-headed, though. Ryan remarked that open sourcing PlayUO would "kill UO". I've had a month to think about that, and here's what I think:
Things that aren't changing, are
dying.
In some ways, I think UO died a long time ago, and what we're hearing now is nothing other than those freaky outgassings that scared the bejesus out of ancient peoples, but were just from decomposition of the body.
I say fuckit. Do it. Let's see what happens, and
react to the kill.
Move forward and
change.
Have fun, and make the game that
can survive PlayUO being open sourced.
I know that's a big conceptual step for many. It's not so hard for me to say, because I haven't really played UO for 8 years. UO died for
me a long time ago. But really: don't the all of you think that UO is
dying inside you also? That maybe it's time for something different?
That different thing can either be
here... or somewhere else.
C//