Due to some issues that have come up with Character Transfers we are taking the system down today to fix these problems.  While its down if you find your character has transferred but does not have any of the items please try to do a character copy and cancel it or initiate a character transfer and cancel it.  This should unlock all your items and return them to you.  We will keep you updated on the progress of fixing these issues. We have received some reports lately regarding lost pets and pets that unbond themselves.  We need your help to […]

I wanted to take a few moments to fill everyone in on a few things we are doing.  I have heard rumbling from the community that the  sky is falling.  I promise that is not true.  We still have a team that is dedicated to UO and is excited about what is to come.    The Event moderator program is here and still going strong. As for the future of UO, I would like to share with you some of the ideas we have and want to see happen this year. • New Theme Pack “The Kings Collection” • Vendor Search […]

Due to an issue discovered this evening on  Atlantic,  we are forced to revert the shard back to 8:00pm EDT, April 15th to correct the problem.

Publish 81 will be going out world wide during normal maintenance tomorrow for April 16, 2013.  Please make sure you get your new client later this evening.   Publish 81.0.0 Player vendor change Any item that is identified as duped can not be placed on a vendor. If a duped item is on a vendor when we publish Pub 81 you can not purchase it. We highly suggest you go thru in- game vendors for all your UO needs. City Elections A new election system has been added to the loyalty towns. Players with a sufficient amount of loyalty will […]

Corrected issue related to special move usage in regards to the hatchet and skinning knife in the classic client only

Update 1:20 p.m. EST: All shards are back online. We are taking down all shards  tomorrow starting at 11:00 a.m. EDT (17:00 CEST).  During this time we will be patching new clients in preparation for Publish 81 for all the shards. In addition, published 81 will be published to Origin and Izumo. At the moment we anticipate the shards to be back online by 3:00 p.m. EDT (21:00 CEST).   Click on more to view a list of the changes. Publish 80 Changes Weapon Revamp All weapons have now been normalized based on weapon speed and handedness.   Mace: Gargish Tessen […]

Publish 81 has been updated on TC1. The updated patch notes are so large that they had to be put on a separate page. Please note:  Kyronix will be on TC1 to help test the city elections so please come join in to help us test this system.  There will be loyalty gates in each city by the elections stones located by the bank, these gates will either give you love or hate depending on the gate you choose.

Update 3:00pm EDT: In order to resolve this issue a new client has been released. If you were having issues logging in, please make sure to run the new patch. We are aware of the issues that some of our players are having with connecting to the game servers. We are currently working on the problem and hope to have a fix in place soon. Thank you for your patience.

Update 6:30pm EST: All shards will be down to finalize the migration of the databases for two hours and thirty minutes.  We expect to have all shards back up by 9 pm EST. On March 27th we are performing maintenance on the Housing warehouse, Vet Reward warehouse, promo codes and character transfer system.  To be able to do this smoothly we will be taking these systems down for approx five hours starting at 1:00 pm EST.  During this time the login servers will be down for several hours between 1pm and 5pm EST.  At the end of the migration we […]

UOForums.com recently posted an interview with Ultima Online’s lead artist James “Onifrk” Crawly.  There are many great questions about the art process for UO and insights into how he came to be a member of the Ultima Online team. Head over to UOForums.com and check it out.