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.

We have received another list of questions for our developers from the fan sites and many of the questions this week are related to crafting. If you have any crafting questions or other UO related questions, be sure and submit them to your favorite fan site so our developers can answer them. UOCraft.com Regarding Powder of Fortification: would it be possible to add a menu option that asks how many PoF charges to apply to an item, instead of clicking over and over for each charge? (Coral) Kyronix: we have gotten this request several times on various items.  It will […]

Greetings everyone,      As I am sure most of you know we have been working on upgrading our outdated hardware and moving to the Cloud.  The next step in the process is to move the data base for Character Transfers.  This is an advanced notice that Character Transfers will be turned off Friday morning 3/22/2013 for an extended time.  We need to ensure all current transfers have been completed before we start this move so please do your transfers now or they will be in limbo till this move is completed.  When we are able to turn them back […]

Update 10:00 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, Wednesday March 20th, at 5am EDT (10:00 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 10:00am EDT (15:00 CET). Thank you for your understanding.

In this week’s Ask and Answer we have some very informative answers from the developers including a holiday appropriate question about bunnies. Enjoy! UOForums Easter is coming. So… Would you consider adding Vorpal Bunnies to the loot system that powers Shame/Covetous/Wrong? Perhaps equivalent to a mid-level monster to recognize how agonizingly slow it is to grow green thorns? Would you consider adding a (very) rare Vorpal Bunny statue drop? Would you consider adding Vorpal Bunnies to the list of sources for the upcoming release of armor system-related ingredients? Would you consider adding various imbuing ingredients to the list of Bunny […]

We are happy to announce that due to a lot of hard work and all the players feedback we have found a major cause for the lag everyone has been experiencing.  We are publishing a fix for this and you will receive it after your normal maintenance cycle.  If you do experience any lag over the weekend please send barmstrong@ea.com the following information to help us in resolving the problem: Shard: What you are doing when you experience the lag: Time of day: Location on shard when you experienced the lag: We appreciate you guys being patient with us while […]