Official Site:Â Ultima Online
Studio:Â Broadsword Entertainment/EA (formerly Mythic)
Launch Date:Â September 24, 1997
Genre:Â Isometric Fantasy Sandbox
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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MMO Year in Review: Expansion 2 for Guild Wars 2 (September 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
Legends of Aria faces down closed beta testing
Ultima Online spiritual successor Legends of Aria is preparing to go through a major transition over the new year as it winds down its...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Rogalia, Lazarus, Dead Maze, We Ride, and SOS
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you’ve never heard of! Let's run down five more floating to the...
Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018
It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...
The MOP Up: Heroes of the Storm mains Hanzo (December 10, 2017)
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: Taking risks in MMORPGs
Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...
Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas state-of-the-game dev diary
It's been a hot minute since we heard from El Somni Quas, the indie sandbox from a Czech studio that cut its teeth on Ultima Online...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 145: Farewell Marvel Heroes and Master X Master
Justin and Bree discuss the sunsets of Marvel Heroes and Master X Master, NCsoft's and Funcom's quarterly financials, EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 business model fiasco, and Path of Exile's upcoming expansion, with a mailbag question on slowing down for classic WoW.
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?
Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...
The Daily Grind: Are you thinking of WoW Classic as a totally new MMO?
Early on in all the WoW Classic hoopla, I'd been thinking of World of Warcraft legacy servers as the sort of gimmick servers that...
Leaderboard: What do you expect out of live MMORPG events in 2017?
Earlier this month, Black Desert GMs ran a live in-game event. I was super excited to hear about something like that in a newer...
The Daily Grind: How old should an MMO be to consider classic servers?
Last week, Justin and I were chit-chatting about legacy servers in MMORPGs when he said that Trion should really get moving on classic servers...
Ultima Online suspends ‘advisor’ program ahead of F2P conversion
Back in 2014, Ultima Online revived its classic "counselor" program as a new "advisor" program -- essentially, it roped in community-minded, expert players to...
EA has put the kibosh on a player-run Battlefield emulator – are MMOs next?
We don't cover the Battlefield games much on Massively OP, but this particular story caught my attention anyway because of the company and subject...
Halloween events across the MMORPG verse, 2017 edition
Hey, you. Yeah, you, dude leeching candy from the bucket you bought "for the neighborhood kids." And you, lady still trying to decide between...
Massively Overthinking: Is open-world housing really a ‘failed’ MMORPG experiment?
Massively OP's Justin Olivetti has a provocative article on his personal gaming blog, Bio Break, this week on MMORPG housing.
"I once again wonder why...
Crowfall demos more action harvesting, starts taking guild name reservations
Crowfall isn't content to make gathering as dull and repetitive as in other MMOs, which is why the team is putting great stock in...
Ultima Online patches in Halloween, 20-year vet rewards, and Christmas
Publish 98.2 is live in Ultima Online this week with... Christmas?
Yep! Halloween is already live in the game, but the latest patch set up...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 140: Dubious drops in LOTRO, FFXIV, and SWTOR
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends' Orochi Tower patch, Lord of the Rings' weird patch week, FFXIV's housing mess, SWTOR's balance patch, Warframe's open-world patch, and H1Z1's name-change patch, with a mailbag question about older gamers in MMORPGs.
Halloween events in Path of Exile, Master X Master, RIFT, EverQuest, Ultima Online, and AQ3D
It's almost a full-time job to stay on top of all of the MMO and MOBA Halloween events popping up all over the place!...
