We will perform an extended maintenance during the regular downtime of each shard tonight. This will prolong the regular maintenance by about two hours.   Thank you for your support.

Greetings, We will push Publish 75.0 to all shards during the next maintenance cycle, in the early morning of March 27. Here are the complete notes for your reading pleasure, enjoy and see you in the game! Publish 75.0.0   Global Arc Acts 3 and 4 for the awakening have been completed.  Please keep an eye on your Town Criers for upcoming news.  Continue on with this quest and you too can have your own heirlooms.  As always watch the herald for future fiction. Clean up Britannia – 4 new dyes Glossy Fuchsia Deep Blue Vibrant Seagreen Murky Amber Faction […]

Greetings, We will publish a new client this afternoon for an art update for the Global Arc. Please make sure to patch.

Update 1:15 pm EDT: Both shards are available again. The shards Drachenfels and Europe in our European datacenter are currently unavailable. Our teams are investigating the situation and will bring both shards back online as soon as possible.

Update 2:30pm EDT: Oceania is back online. We are investigating the lag issues. We have been informed by our service provider that there are issues to connect to shard Oceania. The situation is under investigation. Keep an eye on the Herald for updates.

Greetings, Publish 75.0 comes to Origin tonight. These are the changes to the Publish 75.0 Notes: Faction Score System All faction scores will be scaled down instead of wiped. All faction members’ rankings will be updated to reflect the new scaled points. Faction score now decays at a rate of 1% (rounded down) of score per day. Scores of 99 or below will have a scaling chance to decay 1 point per day. The closer the score is to 0 the smaller the chance is of having point decay. Players with 0 Faction score will always be assigned Rank 1 […]

Written by members of the UO community Issue 2 – Edition 3 WORLD NEWS Alchemist Labors for Naught It was 12 years ago, that the great intellect and alchemist, Vig Parthus the Accomplished addressed the public before barring the door to his lab. He bid that no one disturb his work, for when he finally emerged from his bailiwick, he would present to the people that which mankind had been searching for since the beginning of time. After a decade of respecting the mages request, a concerned citizen determined that something was amiss, since no one had been bringing food […]

Written by the EM Team Intermission Fiction     Stumbling, he grasps onto the railing leading out of the cellar as the distant sounds of unrest echo throughout the empty building around him. Taking another drink from the somewhat depleted bottle of wine in his hand he makes his way through the corridors to the balcony, until the bottle slips from his grasp. In his attempt to grab it he falls, and knocks aside a piece of fabric with a jingle. His eyes are drawn to the weathered and tattered hat.  A memory long past is conjured before his eyes as […]

Update 10:15 am EDT: The maintenance is over. All functions of the account center are available again. Greetings, We will bring down the Account Center for a short maintenance tomorrow, Thursday March 15th, at 9am EDT (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 11:45am EDT (16:45 CET). Thank you for your understanding.

We have added a new program to the list of approved 3rd party programs for UO. Ultima Mapper is the new mapping application for Ultima Online Classic and Enhanced clients that allows users to share the entire experience. It’s features include: Coordinate and Facet Tracking Connected User Health Status Automatically Marks Corpses Upon Death Follow any Player on the Map Crystal and Corrupt Crystal Portal Commands Boat Commands And much more   A list of all approved 3rd party programs can be found here in the EA knowledgebase.