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, […]

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 […]

Greetings, It has come to our attention that there is a double NPC spawn issue as well as a house customization issue. We are investigating the situation and should have a fix in place soon. Thank you for your continued support.

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 […]

Update 12:10 pm EDT: All shards are back online. We will be bringing down the west coast shards for an extended maintenance Monday the 6th of of August at 8am EDT. At this moment we expect the shards to be back online no later than 11am EDT. Shards: Lake Austin Baja Napa Valley Sonoma Pacific Origin   As always keep an eye on the Herald for updates regarding this maintenance.

Issue 3 WORLD NEWS Prankster Strikes Again Law officials are on the lookout for the individual responsible for a recent prank, which left many with lower back injuries and hernias.  With the land being absent of a monarch for far too long, the miraculous appearance of a sword in a stone seems to have addressed the people’s cries for order.  Etched writing on the blade not concealed by the stone reads “Whosoever shall pulleth this sword from this stone shall become..”  There are few citizens of the land not familiar with the old tale of how a squire once won […]

Greetings, We will bring down the Account Center for a maintenance tomorrow, Wednesday January 25th, at 8am EST (14:00 CET). 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 1:00pm EST (19:00 CET). Thank you for your understanding.

We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance tomorrow, Tuesday August 7th, at 8am EDT (14:00 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 11:45am EDT (17:45 CEST). Thank you for your understanding.

The revamp of Covetous introduced with Publish 76 came with a small bug. If you happen to find etheral halberds please don’t consider yourself too lucky, because you are not supposed to get them and we’ll remove all of them in an upcoming fix.

Written by the EM Team It had been quite some time since the man had awoken, before the machine bothered to address him. And when it finally did, it came with such suddenness that the man would have likely lost his balance had he been standing…as it was, it threw him from a reverie of meditation into an already foul mood as soon as it started.      “Congratulations are in order for you I suppose, Lord Blackthorn.” His title was thrown at him in a mechanic approximation of contempt and dissatisfaction…one that Lord Blackthorn found surprisingly well imitated.   […]