Hei! (Hi in Finnish!)
My UO story started back in 2001 I think with the Finnish role-playing shard called Nevermore that was later formed as Lands of Legends (LoL.) To Nevermore you had to actually apply (write an application letter) to get in RP-wise. Since then my nickname was CoCe (probably from Coca-Cola) and also shards had a rule to have a surname on the name of the character. I started with CoCe only however as I didn't know about that rule before. So I had to find a surname for my characetr.. I was 13 years old back then. So I decided to search that from the game itself. I found a warlock wandering around the Britain graveyards. That gave me an idea for the full name: CoCe Warlock.
From LoL the famous Fallen Realm shard was evolved and CoCe's story continued there. Then it continued to Andromeda, where I led a successful Thieves guild of about 25 members. Those years place between 2001-2005. I shortly played on Defiance as well after Andromeda died. Played also on OSI for a couple years, but didn't like it there. Freeshards have been the best community-wise!
At the same time I played Counter-Strike for semi-professionally and started career in eSports as a journalist. I did somewhat successful career in eSports back then best part of it being a journalist at SK Gaming.
Can't remember the exact year.. I think 2012 is when I found about UO: Forever. And for some reason about IDOCs. Most of the time I played a lot as a solo IDOCer, but ended up to EQMS after all. Shortly some of my IRL friends started playing UO too in that shard. But my heart was however with EQMS and GluttonySDS due to IDOCs. During the Finnish era of shards we formed infamous guild Kuoleman Partio aka KP (Death Squad in English.) For KP I played somewhat casually, but it ended up to clashes between large international guilds and KP. Losing the control of a 30x30 house plot for example. There was a battle, where I had to select between KP and EQMS. I think that was the hardest decisions of my UO career. My friends, or EQMS, where I had been during my modern era of UO. I had to sell the 30x30 plot to werkt member.
With EQMS I started also spying on other guilds.. Faked some of the leavings from EQMS to join another guilds such as POWER to make them look like I was pissed of EQMS. The main goal was just the work towards IDOCs. I tried the same towards $, where I got to know Bobby123 a little better and his friends from the IDOC section. This spying happened with other guilds as well not only POWER and $. So.. let's say I knew different players.
In 2015 or so UO Forever was looking for Event Manager, where I decided to apply and for my surprise I was selected as a non-American. I'm after all Finnish and the shard was American. That didn't end well though as I didn't like the Trammel-like ideas of the Voldemort and ideas making it harder for PKers. Even after all the good ideas for events
From the start of CoCe Warlock, CoCe Warlock has also always been my main character. It's here on UO Outlands too. Just not sure, if I should return actively.
Here I wanted to tell a story, who I am as UO player. Other games I play are Counter-Strike and World of Warcraft. As a person I love especially about the lore of the games, movies etc. I want to know exactly what happened! Not like leveling the char to lvl 120 without thinking. The very fastest way.
About this post I guess I just wanted to share from my point of view what I did within UO.
Shortly saying
- CS since Beta 6.5
- UO since 2001
- WoW since 2004 (Vanilla Day 1)
- eSports journalist
- 31-year-old dude from Helsinki, Finland
- Daily job related to UI/UX design and development (creating websites/applications)
- Former IDOCer
- Former UO: Forever staff member
