ultima online

Official Site: Ultima Online
Studio: Broadsword Entertainment/EA (formerly Mythic)
Launch Date: September 24, 1997
Genre: Isometric Fantasy Sandbox
Business Model: Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

Perfect Ten: MMOs with different (camera) perspectives

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By the time that World of Warcraft came on the scene in 2004, the MMORPG industry had already gravitated toward standard when it came...
Straight shot.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 166: Russia breaks the internet

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Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Secret World Legends, Star Trek Online, Trove, Ultima Online, the Russian Telegram crisis' effect on MMOs, TERA, Kritika, RIFT Prime, and MapleStory 2, with mailbag topics on zoning out in MMOs and finding classic play niches in modern crowdfunded MMOs.
oh the pain, the pain

Legends of Aria works toward June open beta

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Hope you haven't booked that summer vacation just yet, because Legends of Aria would like to interest in a fantasy holiday. The studio announced...
Please let this stay far away from Rowling's endless retcons.

The Game Archaeologist: Harry Potter Online

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If all goes well, later this year we will finally be treated to an actual Harry Potter MMORPG in the form of Harry Potter:...

Ultima Online grants returning veterans F2P bank space – kinda – and bans 83 players

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If you trekked back into Ultima Online earlier this month when it converted into a free-to-play game, maybe to check out your old account,...

Choose My Adventure: And now, Ultima Online, sooner or later

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Oh boy. So, yes, I did actually play some Ultima Online. Or I tried to play some Ultima Online, at least. I'm not sure that...

The Daily Grind: What keeps you logging into MMORPGs over a long period of time?

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Earlier this month, Pantheon's community team tweeted out a question that keeps coming back to me: "What motivates you to play an MMORPG for...

Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs

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Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that claimed to be the first

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We've all been there. We're playing our favorite MMORPG and then self-appointed professors of game history start arguing in world chat about firsts --...

Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018

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The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...
No biscuit

Choose My Adventure: Getting started in Ultima Online

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The interesting thing about this installment of Choose My Adventure is that it's probably the only time I could ever do this particular title....
There are lots of different defintions of penalty.

Taking your first steps into Ultima Online’s free-to-play conversion

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If there's one thing I can't do in Ultima Online, it's start fresh with new eyes. That's something that became abundantly clear to me...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 165: Step into the Morninglight

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Justin and MJ discuss Secret World Legends, DDO, WoW, Conan Exiles, RIFT, LOTRO, TERA, Ultima Online, ArcheAge, and Star Trek Online, with mailbag questions on combat combos and recapturing former players.
Ultima Online

Leaderboard: Are you giving Ultima Online’s Endless Journey F2P conversion a try?

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With the launch of Ultima Online's Endless Journey free-to-play conversion this week, a whole lotta old-school MMORPG players are turning their attention back to...

The Stream Team: A first free look at Ultima Online

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Have you ever seen a complete newbie in Ultima Online? You can today! Massively OP's MJ has never played the game, but with today's...

Ultima Online’s F2P conversion, Endless Journey, is officially live with new ‘deluxe starter pack’

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At 20 years old, Ultima Online is finally doing what its EA-backed handlers at Broadsword once said it would never do: It's going free-to-play. Game...
Bring out your dead, I guess.

Choose My Adventure: Warframe in review

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It's funny how presentation problems can have such a huge impact on the same product. Warframe, as a game, is almost crippled by its lack...
It was just how things were done then.

Ultima Online is officially going free-to-play on Thursday, outlaws multiboxing

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If you didn't already know that Ultima Online is planning to go free-to-play, you probably still wouldn't be able to tell without reading between...

Tale of Toast is giving up on being a free-for-all PvP MMO

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We've been keeping an eye on Tale of Toast since last year in the lead up to its early access launch back in February....

Ultima Online’s F2P trial is coming in early April while DAOC hotfixes classes

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The Ultima Online team is hard at work "crushing bugs" and preparing for the launch of Endless Journey. The free-to-play Publish 99 is being...

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