The game is broke. To much bullsht. I remeber when it was good stuff.

In my opinion UO is still best of THE BEST MMORPG's in concept after all these years and gameplay on MMO scene actually didnt even improved by much. All is about graphics now, but i dont care. Im still around UO, hell I must say i dont like OSI-style. I dont want to promote unofficial servers and NO, ppl dont play there because its FREE. Its just different and changing. Ppl create so many creative ideas so its now greatest playground for bright minds. It was actually one of those, which showed me UO 10 years ago and after few months I relocated to official. But after years and years you just have to find something different, new ppl, new items, mobs, systems. You have to admit, its their game and their vision. When they screw or improve something you have to live with it or quit. But there is still option to get back to what you liked. They cant with same ruleset please all players, everyone have certain vision, what HE/SHE would like to play. And all is possible in world of UO and thats where i see its real potential. Job like this have to come from heart and hard work of dedicated ppl. Not just by bunch of well-payed  "Here and there" programmers and "like-to-be-rich" management.

The thing that made UO the best for me (back in 1999-2001) was the fact that it was an MMO simulation. I started playing RPG's since the first Ultima on the Commodore 64 so I had to take a chance on UO and boy did I love it. I started with a friend of mine who was also an old Ultima fan and we ran around and killed chickens, then cows, then bears then our first real monster! It was so exciting. We chatted with a lot of people and just went exploring. The artwork was fantastic for being 2D. We had no clue what to do and we didn't care. We just did whatever we could and was earning skills and having fun with it. I think the whole humility thing at the beginning was what made UO the best. We met so many kind people willing to help and we ended up playing the game for a couple years before getting burnt out. Here it is 2008 and I'm seriously considering about going back to UO because after playing City of Villains/Heroes for a couple years, all other MMO's are now boring to me (yes, WoW is so damn boring) and I really miss the whole "feel" of UO. The funny thing is i used to play UO on a 56k modem and would get so pissed off when someone would call the house and disconnect me lol. Those were the days...

But ya, I think I will give it a try again. I don't care if they made the graphics better, as long as I can get back that feeling of nostalgia again, I'll be happy :)

Originally posted by IAmMMO

 For me UO really changed for the worse when AOS hit, which took the game in a direction that made it Ultima in name only. I really didn't like the new stats on all the items and the colour cons. I much preferred the way weapons and armour worked before AOS. With the Power or Vanquishing etc. As UO moved further and further away from the perfect Britannia medieval simulation that it was, the less I started to enjoy logging in to play until it was time to say goodbye.

 

That's exactly what did it for me, as well. If they had simply continued adding content rather than go with the radical changes that came with AOS, I'd almost certainly still be playing it. But instead I gave it over half a year afterwards until my yearly subs ran out, then was glad I was leaving when I saw what the next expansion was including with the ninjas, etc.

It completely lost what made the game immersive for me when the publish that prepared for AOS hit. If they had made a 'classic server' that kept the old systems I would have switched to that.

Originally posted by Dapu

Originally posted by IAmMMO

 For me UO really changed for the worse when AOS hit, which took the game in a direction that made it Ultima in name only. I really didn't like the new stats on all the items and the colour cons. I much preferred the way weapons and armour worked before AOS. With the Power or Vanquishing etc. As UO moved further and further away from the perfect Britannia medieval simulation that it was, the less I started to enjoy logging in to play until it was time to say goodbye.

 

 

That's exactly what did it for me, as well. If they had simply continued adding content rather than go with the radical changes that came with AOS, I'd almost certainly still be playing it. But instead I gave it over half a year afterwards until my yearly subs ran out, then was glad I was leaving when I saw what the next expansion was including with the ninjas, etc.

It completely lost what made the game immersive for me when the publish that prepared for AOS hit. If they had made a 'classic server' that kept the old systems I would have switched to that.

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outdated graphics.

It's simple:

Electronic Arts ruined Ultima Online.

Originally posted by Effect

It's to old of a game in the end for me. The game lags insanely for me and there is to much stop and go in terms of graphics lag. It's all leads back to the graphics and the actual client. As much as they try to change it the whole thing needs to be scrapped and completely redone from the ground up.

     Nice post....It would be nice if the whole series was updated graphically and re-released.

Originally posted by nariusseldon

You forget the option "there are even more people who do not like sandbox games and just want a good hack-n-slash".

Actually when it comes to MMOs Hack n Slash is rarely worth a monthly fee. Most people want more options for their money rather than simply killing things. Say what you want but one of the reasons WOW draws so many is that it brings in players not normally associated with MMOs.

I always wished that Lord British wouldve made a sequel to UO or at least enhance the graphics a little more. UO was probobly one of the coolest games out there. I still have nightmares of seeing the words "Corp por" then getting zapped.

Time is the simple answer! All of us here who have been playing the damn game since launch know the game has had its up and downs and the changes made early on were great but a bit extravagant. Look ill put it to you all this way, does anyone remember the feeling you got playing those first few days? Weeks? months? Its not something anyone can make again, that game could get your blood pumping as soon as you stepped out into the world. I am sorry too Kingdom Reborn I think was the worst choice they could have made with the game, its pretty yes, but who played that game for it being pretty?? In respect to other games it looks like a manatee strung up on boat, or Rosie O'Donnell on a fishing trip. I would also like to add I am a strict Republican so I hate anything that has to do with change. Keep it, and enhance it, do not change it!

AoS ruined it.  I didn't want another item based game.  I came back, played for 4 more years and had some fun, yes but it was a different game.  What completely ruined it for me was getting banned, castle deleted and for EA to then later say "oops, we made a mistake".  uh, yeah.

Did they remove Trammel?

That's why.