The time for celebration is close and preparations are under way. We are excited to see all of you and have many surprises in store! If you are unable to make it, don’t worry we haven’t forgot about you either! We are going to stream the event with our special surprise guest as well as the Q&A with developers. The stream will take place from 1:30pm – 4:00pm EDT on our Ustream channel at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bioherald. So be sure and tune in to watch the story unfold! That’s not all though: UO Stratics is going to be hosting an all day […]

Another Memorable Moment comes from Anthony Castoro, Producer for Ultima Online from 2022 to 2005. “So, I thought a lot about different stories I could tell about UO, the people, the players, the game itself.  I’ve decided to stick with this one story. The first time I worked on UO, I became co-lead designer with Todd “MadToad” Bailey. We encountered a problem on several of the servers where the forests had become completely barren. For some reason, not enough creatures and monsters were spawning, but we couldn’t figure out an obvious cause. We tweaked the spawner settings on the live […]

With all the anniversary preparations going on we had almost forgotten to send our best wishes to UOForums which turned 10 on September 24th. To celebrate their birthday UOForums is hosting a series of events and a contest (among other things). “10 Year Anniversary Grand Event! UOForums staffers will be touring Ultima Online shards all through this event. We will be visiting American, European and Japanese shards. Announcement of schedule will be made the 26th September. At these events we will be passing out gift pouches filled with very valuable loot and perhaps even unique things. Though the exact content […]

It’s time to release the final three pieces for our Anniversary puzzle. This should allow you to finish the artwork and get a nice impression of the complete piece. If you like what our Artist has created, head to the Bioware store. The artwork is available as a lithograph over there. Check it out! Also available in the store to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Ultima Online is a new tshirt. Take a look. Let’s get the celebration started.

In line with the writing contest and the Memorable Moments Bonnie gave us at the beginning of this week, we asked Richard Garriot to shared some of his memories with us. He was kind enough to come up with two stories: The Thief One day, early in the life of UO, I was participating as a GM and going to the aid of people who requested it. A note flashed across my screen from a woman, who said something like “Today is my first day trying to play UO, and every time I try to leave town a thief steals […]

Everyone here is very excited to get the party started. Official beginning on Saturday is 10:30am EDT. When you arrive at 4035 Ridge Top Road please come to the 2nd floor (just follow the smell of fresh brewed coffee, we will also have tea for those that do not drink coffee) Ultima Online’s 15th Anniversary Party Itinerary 10:00 am – 11:00 am  – Greet players and have coffee and donuts 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Welcome Speeches 12:00pm – 1:30 pm –  Lunch and cake 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – Special guest – question and answer period 2:20 […]

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UO’s 15th anniversary triggered several articles and reviews. Here is the EA Press release: EA CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF ULTIMA ONLINE Mythic to Crown a New King To Mark The 15-Year Anniversary Of The Longest Running MMO Of All-Time Electronic Arts and Mythic are proud to announce the 15th anniversary of the massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) Ultima™ Online. Originally released on September 24, 1997, Ultima Online is a fantasy MMORPG set in the legendary Ultima™ universe and was the first game of its kind to gain a dedicated widespread audience. To celebrate this occasion, the development team at […]

Happy Birthday Ultima Online!! I wanted to drop you guys a note on this extremely memorable day. Can you believe its 15 years already? I have been reading all your stories, which are great I have to say. Some have made me grin, some I have shared with people not on our team and some I just shook my head thinking yep I know what they are talking about.  *grins* So with that said I want to share a few of my memorable moments that stand out to me, I hope some of you can relate. Back in September 1997 […]

The Ultima Online team has received another set of questions last week. Here are the answers. The Rustic and Gothic theme packs can not be bought together, as they could from uogamecodes.com, are there any plans to make that possible? (Snyder330)  When the change was made to Origin Store that was left out, we will add it back in next time we go to put something up on the store. Some Origin stores outside of the US don’t all have the full range of items – when the High Seas booster will be available in EMEA region? (Sir Z), – […]