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Producer’s Letter

Happy New Year Everyone!   Hope everyone had a fun and game filled holiday break with friends and family. 2012 is upon us and for Ultima Online it’s time to celebrate our 15 year journey. UO to me is the MMORPG that kick started this genre and we have so much to be thankful for it. I have much respect for the original Origin crew who got this ball rolling. UO would be nothing without the fans and passionate community it has. You guys and ladies are the best and longest supportive group of creative players I know of. You […]


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An Easier Way to Retrieve Your Passwords

Today’s Account Center maintenance came with an important change to the retrieval of your Master and Game account passwords. You no longer need your old passwords to change them. If you forgot your EA/Origin account password, you can request a new password on the front page of the Account Center as long as you know the associated email address. If you don’t have an EA account yet and forgot your Mythic account password, you can request a new password on the front page of the Account Center as long as you know the account name and email address. If you […]


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The Lore of Sudiva

And where is she going? You could be the one to tell us! Enter the Sudiva Fan Fiction Contest currently hosted on Stratics. A collaboration between BioWare UO, UOGuide and UO Stratics, with support from UOForums. More details here: UO Stratics *New* | Sudiva Fan Fiction Contest


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Account Center Maintenance – 01/30

Due to an EA-wide maintenance that will affect our game and others, we will be bringing down our account center at 11:45pm EST (4:45am GMT). During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription or redeem game codes. At this time we expect the servive to be back up no later than 8am EST (1pm GMT). See you in the game!


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Account Center Maintenance – 05/24

Update 10:20am EDT: The Account Center is back online. Greetings,  We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance tomorrow, Thursday May 24th, at 9:30am EDT (15:30 CEST). During the maintenance you will not be able to change subscription or redeem game codes. At the moment we anticipate the Account Center to be back online at 12pm EDT (18:00 CEST). Thank you for your understanding.


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Publish 74.0 Comes to All Shards – 01/31

Greetings, We will push Publish 74.0 to all shards during the next maintenance cycle, in the early morning of January 31. Here are the complete notes for your reading pleasure, enjoy and see you in the game! Publish 74.0   Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! Yes, love is in the air so please celebrate this day with our gift to you to remember it. You will find a cupid statue in your packs and a cupid arrow. Use the arrow by double clicking and targeting anything mobile. The arrow will then retain the name of your true love. Use it wisely because this arrow will […]


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Legends “Gold Diggers” Claim Treasure Hunt Championship

   On Friday’s eve January 20th,  The Gold Diggers of Legends layed claim therein to the title and trophy of the cross shard treasure hunting championship; besting the Purple team and defending champions of Great Lakes. In a landslide victory the diggers won in grand fashion finishing well over ten minutes ahead of their rivals. With furious teamwork and precise tactics, the diggers took advantage of miscues and disconnects amongst their competitors en route to victory!      Team Great Lakes ever gracious in defeat, resolved to finish their maps to the applause of all in attendance. Finishing the competition, […]


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Letter from the Franchise Producer

Hail Fellow UO Adventurers, I wanted to take a few minutes, clear up some things I’ve been reading, and post my thoughts on Ultima, UO and our recently announced new title, Ultima Forever. I’m sure for many it was exciting to see we have more things in store for Ultima beyond just rereleasing the classics through GoG, setting up a history site for all things Ultima, and continuing to support UO as it hits a major milestone next month –its 15th anniversary. I’m sure for others though, questions were raised. Why is BioWare not putting more development effort into UO […]


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Re-Forging Returns to TC and Origin

Greetings, We will bring back ReForging to Test Center and Origin today, along with the mandatory Classic Client patch 7.0.23 and Enhanced Client patch 4.0.23. These are the additional Publish notes: If you want to do normal runic crafting then be near a regular forge, if you want to use the Reforging Tool then you must be near a soul forge.  To use the Re-Forging option of your runic tool you must have a minimum of 65 Imbuing skill.  The higher your Imbuing skill the more options available to you. Concentration and Focus were removed from the options of the […]