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Hot Fix Notes – 06/15

We have published a few fixes to the following issues.  We put in a fix for losing the Quiver of Infinity when altering the quiver to Gargoyle Wing  Armor,  this will be active tomorrow after maintenance. Resolved the issue which was causing equipped items, mounts and even backpacks from disappearing in dungeons Fixed the issue involving healers getting looting rights properly


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Publish 74.0.2

We will stage a server publish for all shards during the maintenance tonight. The publish will address two topics: Resolved an issue related to containers in the Wrong prison Resolved a few issues with the protesters, rioters and raiders


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THE YEW TIMES – A Newspaper for Sosaria

Written by members of the Community Issue 5 WORLD NEWS Homeowners On Alert Yew homeowners are up in arms following a scam where several families were hustled from their homes while colleagues with picks and shovels tore up kitchens and living rooms, leaving all in disarray before departing. The Yew Times has been asked by authorities to keep the public informed of parties posing as officials associated with a non-existing agency calling itself the Bureau of Building Foundation Structural Integrity. According to accounts, a number of disheveled characters bullied themselves into the households of several Yew citizens insistent upon checking […]


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Judging the Sudiva Fiction Writing Contest

Hello Everyone,    I was asked to judge the Sudiva fiction writing contest and recruit more judges to join in. The first person I asked to read the entries was Mike “Phoenix” Moore. But there are other people even outside of the UO team who have a lot of knowledge and love for the UO history – one of them is Kate Flack, one of our Lead Designers who also has a great collection of the old UO games. I respect her opinion and love her creativity, so Kate was a logical choice to be a judge. With that said […]


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Bonnie Armstrong Promoted to Producer

Bonnie ‘Mesanna’ Armstrong has become the Producer for Ultima Online. Together with Jeff Skalski, who continues his role as Ultima Franchise Producer, she will now take an even more active lead of all topics around our longest running MMO. Bonnie’s drive, dedication and knowledge of UO, together with her motivation to kill players (in-game) are well known in the office and among players. Of course this raises some questions about the directions Bonnie is going to take, questions you might ask on the boards. Apart from a “Yeah yeah yeah” song we weren’t able to get an initial statement yet […]


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The Awakening – Act V

Written by the EM Team     “Now, charge its left flank, and aim for the seams! Mages, lightning and energy bolts, but focus on keeping up our knights!” Dupre shouted out the orders from behind his plated helm, even as his cadre of knights swarmed one of the monstrosities that laired within Exodus dungeon. With the backup of the mages keeping them healed, they weren’t in any threat at the moment from the beast in front of them. Lord Dupre had heard the noises and gotten glimpses of things from inside what was left of Ver Lor Reg and it […]


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Openings for Event Moderators for Japanese Speaking Players

Greetings everyone,    We are looking for 6 players that are creative, outgoing, and love to make events come to life on Japanese shards. These positions require you to be 18 years of age, and able to put in 20 hours a month. A small amount of English is a must to be able to communicate with the team. If you are interested in being a part of the Event Moderator team; please fill out the following application and return it to barmstrong AT ea.com. Name: Age: Shard/shards you play on: What language (s) do you speak? Account names (no […]


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UO Herald Restoration

All the latest news and the archives have been restored on the website after yesterday’s issues. Due to limitations in our publishing tool, some news articles bear two time stamps – one of today when they were restored and one of the original publishing date. We continue to work on the other pages like the UO Guide or the Account Center information to bring them back up to date as fast as possible. Please let us know if you miss content. Thank you for your support.