Ultima Online: Fifteen Years & Counting
It's hard to believe that the Grandaddy of Them All, Ultima Online, is fast approaching its fifteenth anniversary. We recently had the privilege of chatting with UO Associate Producer Bonnie "Mesanna" Armstrong. It's a short but informative interview about the venerable Ultima Online. Read on!
Ultima Online has been on the market for almost 15 years, can you tell us why you think it has such longevity?
Ultima Online is the ultimate Sandbox. We have something for everyone from designing your house from the foundation up to slaying dragons. We are probably the only game on the market that you can still run on a low end computer, in addition to the personal one on one interaction with the players that has forged an amazing community. I personally have played UO since 1997 and worked on it since 1999 and I continue to learn or see something new and entertaining every day.
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Never played this game. But do hear a lot of positive things about it.
UO today is not what it used to be. It undergone major changes. Havnt played in years so not sure how it looks exactly atm.
Still in it's days (up to first few years after release) it was great game. Everything was player oriented , player-made , alot of freedom. Of course that also created alot of problems and game suffered from many bugs, etc - after all it one of first mmoprg's.
Still apart of maybe SWG no other mmorpg was so rich feature wise.
Maybe ArcheAge will share some similarities, even though ArcheAge will be more casual friendly and also bring many themepark elements.
Even so cannot wait for AA to hit western shores. For it to succeed very good company (caring & having very good GM support + reacting fast to exploiters, botters, etc) have to publish it.
It that kind of company will do it, then this game imo have a chance of success in west.
also pls P2P for AA. Sandboxy features would be ridiculed in microtransaction , item shop based game...
Loved it until they did "care-bear" lands, also there are many free servers to play on out there supporting hundreds of players and endless customization, what-ever floats your boat :P
Oh, man! I'm still in love with this game ...
Feeling so nostalgic right now ...
Haha, yeah. Same here. I just wish I wasnt at work so I can install it XD
This is the game that started it all being the true first graphical mmorpg. Later on a few developers left Origin and created the second biggest mmorpg known as Everquest.
Ultima Online really started it all so here's to UO in it's 15th anniversary
I'm just throwing this out there... but who WOULDN'T want a new Ultima? Online or Off? I mean, seriously.
Oh wow... OMG!!! i used to love this game!! was totally addicted to it!!! It was so much fun!!!
I still remember my Grand Master Mage, she was a tank mage and of course she was a Murderer from time to time :) had so much fun!!! until they created the expansion and the 3D and the carebears land.. that kinda ruined it all... Oh well.. still good memories!!! maybe ill play again someday :D
Not me;)
I rather see a succesor to Asherons call speically Darktide server with was alot better then UO in my humble opinion. AC1 this year 13years and counting.