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

EVE Evolved: How much toxic, antisocial behaviour should MMOs tolerate?

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The EVE Online community is aflame this week after alliance leader gigX was permanently banned for making threats of real-life violence against another player...
How do I start to say goodbye.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 135: PAX in the P.M.

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Justin, Bree, and MJ discuss PAX West, Secret World Legends, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, EverQuest II, Destiny 2, WoW, ArcheAge, and WildStar, plus a mailbag question on Destiny and raiding.

Valiance Online puts out a call for hurricane heroes for charity event

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When real-life tragedy occurs, it's perfectly OK to give priority to assistance over interest in video games. But what if you could do both? Valiance...
We could have planned better.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 134: You are my… Destiny

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, DDO, Guild Wars 2, Wander, ARK, Funcom, Destiny 2, Cloud Pirates, Perpetuum, EVE Lifeblood, Villagers & Heroes, and helping out with Harvey, with mailbag questions on favorite MMO moments and finding a good guild.

The Daily Grind: What MMOs do you wish would come to Steam?

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I was poking through my Steam library this weekend hunting for an old game I wanted to install to see whether it still worked...

Ultima Online suspends housing decay, placement during 20th anniversary month due to Harvey

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During this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I wondered whether any MMORPGs with ongoing in-game costs and timers might disable them because of...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories

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Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...

Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida on Stormblood’s release, AI issues, and MMO history

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After all this time, I'm sure some of you forgot that my original E3 2017 interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida was supposed to...

Shroud of the Avatar’s R45 launches Thursday, Oktoberfest-themed fundraiser begins next week

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Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for one of its like-clockwork monthly releases: 45 on Thursday. In preparation, this week's newsletter features a...

The Game Archaeologist: Furcadia

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Let's face it: There isn't really a huge pool of MMORPGs from the 1990s to explore in this column. By now I have done...
No one weekend should have all that power.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 132: Filth TV

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Justin and MJ discuss Secret World, LOTRO, Warframe, Path of Exile, Otherland, WoW, Ultima Online, ARK, Just Survive, EverQuest II, and West of Loathing.

The MOP Up: Black Desert shows pet love (August 20, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Massively Overthinking: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...
It was just how things were done then.

Ultima Online begins epic 20th anniversary event, warns of harassment threat

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Is there any shame in throwing a birthday party for yourself? Not if you invite everyone and make it hecka fun, we say! Ultima...

Ultima Online is giving away six ‘grandfathered’ castles for its 20th anniversary

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While Ultima Online these days allows players to own only a single house on a production shard per account, that rule will be broken...
Well, this is definitely a place.

Choose My Adventure: Starting completely fresh in Shroud of the Avatar

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I really know pretty much nothing about Ultima. This is only partly my fault. Way back when the Ultima games were a big deal on...
All right, the Lopp have some chops here too.

Hacker claims to have made a living cheating in MMOs for two decades

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Motherboard has a fun-slash-depressing piece out this week on an unnamed hacker who claims he's been cheating at MMORPGs to make a living for...

The Daily Grind: How would you solve the housing server merge problem?

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When ArcheAge launched, I was one of those who was brutally harsh about its mind-numbingly stupid housing system, a more or less open-world system...

The MOP Up: Skyforge investigates the Cradle of the World (July 30, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
My expectations weren't that I would be jumping into this right away, but...

Ultima Online starts testing its fall update while Dark Age of Camelot continues its Dragon’s Curse campaign

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Let's check in with the Broadsword MMOs to see what's happening in its part of the online world, shall we? Ultima Online has kicked off...

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