Ultima Online Stones

Good memories from a good game.
Ultima Online (UO) is a popular graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), released on September 25, 1997, by Origin Systems. It was instrumental to the development of the genre, and is still running today. The game is played online, in a fantasy setting similar to that of the other Ultima games that preceded it.

The success of Ultima Online opened the door for the creation of many new massively multiplayer games. Ultima Online is a fantasy role-playing game set in the Ultima universe. It is online-only and played by thousands of simultaneous users (who pay a monthly fee) on various game servers, also known as shards. It is known for its extensive timing-based player versus player combat system. Over a million paid accounts have been created in the game.[citation needed] To maintain order in the online community, there are Game Masters who resolve player disputes, police the shard for terms of service violations, and correct glitches in the game.

Several expansions have been released, but its aging game engine and graphics make it outdated compared to competitive, new massively multiplayer games. This changed with the release of Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn in 2007, which features a new game engine. Since Ultima Online's prime in 2003, the overall subscriber base has seen a steady decline. Subscriber numbers peaked at around 250,000 in July of 2003, and to date sit around 135,000 subscribers (approximately 70,000 of whom are Japanese).[1] As of June 2006, Ultima Online held a 1.1% market share of the massively multiplayer online game subscriptions.[2]

Quoting directly from the Electronic Arts press release announcing the Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn expansion, Ultima Online was "the first MMORPG to reach the 100,000 subscriber base, far exceeding that of any game that went before it. Since then, it has added seven expansion packs and dozens of free content updates, making it one of the deepest, largest MMORPGs ever created. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest continuously running MMORPG in history

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[Essefen]

You have it wrong. UO sucks. And Uo ruined classic Ultima

[Blackdreath]

You have it wrong. UO is awesome addition to classic ultima. Still enjoying ultima 7 and 8 that works on my computer.

[Yabolla6]

Najlepsze mmo mego życia... = 5 lat życia mniej xD

[Blackdreath]

yeah....

[bubba224422]

I miss old UO and I feel like this is a game that lives on in the hearts of the players, if I acomplish my goal of being a video game designer, let me promise this that I will try to make a game that could be enjoyed like UO and hopefully even be a successor

[Tzukuyomi]

simply the best game ever made...

[dooshmaster2k]

@GiuzKaminetor how many hours have i probably stolen your ore while walk dragging? /handsdown best mmo ever

[dooshmaster2k]

Twas the beginning! Dread Lords and Corpse looters hearken!

[GiuzKaminetor]

how many hours i've mined in minoc's cave with this song? best moo ever

[A3you1]

My favorite

[ArthurV32]

@KeithJonathanJared Yeah yeah, same here.

[ArthurV32]

@diggwadd I would like that too. But it would be too much nerdy.

[KeithJonathanJared]

ಥ﹏ಥ



[Hellmental85]

Best game ever.

Kid can't understand what we lived by the past with this game.

[MckeesportRoseGarden]

I imagine problems emerged from fights over who gets items. I look forward to my return after five long years. I did not purchase the new update booster expansions yet. About names, Nightshade is a reagent. I would expect others to have the same name. Your account age could be checked with the other player. I look forward to High Seas and the Stygian Abyss expansions. Thanks to the programmers, devs (all involved) for the latest updates!