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Job Opening – Engineer

Ultima Online is looking to increase our team again!! As a software engineer at Broadsword, you will build and maintain some of the longest-lived MMO’s still running. You will work on client and server code, networking, databases, and UI/UX among many other tasks. The ideal candidate is a passionate gamer with a C++ background, strong English language communication skills and experience with both Linux and Windows development. If you are interested in applying please send your resume to Careers@broadsword.com.


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Character Transfer Issues

Attention We are aware of an issue with character transfer. In order to fix this issue we are going to turn it off for the time being at 1 pm ET 5/1/14. We will keep you informed of our progress and will get it turned back on as soon as possible. We are sorry for the horrible timing and appreciate your patience. UO Team ご注目をお願いします!! 現在キャラクター転送システムに不具合が生じております。 この問題を解決するためにキャラクター転送システムを一時閉鎖させて頂きます 閉鎖開始時刻は5月1日午後1時米国東部標準時間よりとさせていただきます 問題が解決し次第再開となります 随時調査報告が出来ればと思っております ご不便をおかけし心よりお詫び申し上げますご理解とご協力に大変感謝いたします UOチーム


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Vendor Search On Origin and Izumo

Vendor Search is being turned on today on Origin and Izumo after their normal maintenance cycle.  Pending any disasters Vender Search will be live on all shards tomorrow after normal daily maintenance. Improved overall search speed Search results now return up to 60 items Searches can no longer be canceled Customizing houses will remove opted-in vendors from search results for up to 30 minutes Upon shards being published with update it will take approximately three hours for the vendor database to update.  If you do not find your item please check back after that time frame,  After the initial database update […]


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Dev Meet and Greet Schedule

We will be meeting on each shard for 1 hour in Lord Blackthorn’s Throne Room. This will be an open forum for you to ask us anything that is on your mind. Please note that the schedule could change due to unforeseen issues but we will notify you of any changes ahead of schedule.   Shard M&G Scheduled Time Date       Legends 7pm ET April 30, 2014 Mugen 9am ET May 14, 2014 Atlantic 7pm ET June 4, 2014 Wakoku 9am ET June 18, 2014 Lake Superior 7pm ET July 2, 2014 Hokuto 9am ET July 16, 2014 […]


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State of UO Address

Greetings everyone, The UO Team would like to invite everyone to join us for our first State of UO Address under the Broadsword name. The get together is scheduled for Thursday April 3rd at 6 pm EST. You can watch it at any of the following locations: Google+: Watch live on Google+ YouTube: Watch live on YouTube Twitch: Watch live on Twitch live on Twitch Please join us for some exciting news as to what the team is up to and where we are going next. See everyone soon! UO Team! 皆さん こんにちは! 今回 私達UOチームがブロートソード社になって初の「State Of UO」(動画)を配信する事になり UOチームは皆さんにこの動画をお届けしたいと思っています! 配信予定日は2014年4月3日(木)米国東部標準時間午後6時です 以下のリンクより観覧できます Google+: Watch […]


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Vendor Search Issues

Greetings Everyone, We are aware of the time out issues with Vendor Search and we working to resolve the issue.  We should have Vendor Search up and running no later than 10 am EDT tomorrow morning.  Thank you for your patience with us. We appreciate any feedback you may have with this system, please email uo@broadsword.com. Thank you, UO Team


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Publish Day to all Shards

Greetings everyone,    We will be taking all the shards except for Origin and Izumo down today at approx 1:30 for approx 3 hours.  If your shard has not gone thru your normal maintenance cycle it will not be going thru one consider this your cycle for the day.    We will be publishing all the items from Publish 85.4 to all shards today with the addition of one client fix to the classic client that was causing the client to hang up when you tried to exit out of the client while preforming a seach.  You will now be able […]


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Publish to Origin and Izumo Today (3/17/2014)

With us publishing out Vendor search we are having to take down the Housing warehouse and the Character transfer warehouse for a few hours today to make sure we update those also. This should be a one time only occurance so please be patient with us. Vendor Search Players will not see these improvements for the first 3 hours until the data base has been rebuilt. Added the ability to search “Artifact Rarity” values Vendor Maps: Added message when vendor map is placed in backpack. Removed ability to sell vendor maps to mapmakers. Removed ability to use vendor maps to […]


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Announcing New Team Member

ブロードソードのウルティマ オンライン チームは、日本人プレーヤーへの継続的なサポートと献身をここに宣言することを大変誇りに思います。 我々は日本のコミュニティに投資しており、我々の間のサポートとコミュニケーションを発展させるべく、日本語に堪能なアシスタント プロデューサーを既に雇用しています。 UO.comについては英語と日本語のバイリンガルサイトにするため、再構築の計画を立てています。これは現在日本公式サイトに掲載されている情報をすべて引き継ぐものになるでしょう。我々はこれらの情報の重要性を認識しており、いずれも損なわれることのないようこれらをアーカイブ化し、いつでもあなた方が必要とするときにそれを提供できるようにする予定です。 およそ2週間の内には、米国ブロードソード社の新たなチームメンバー(日本から来るのよ!)として加わる、アシスタント プロデューサーも紹介できるでしょう! The Broadsword Ultima Online Team is very proud to announce the continued support and dedication to our Japanese players. We’re investing in our Japanese community and have hired an Assistant Producer fluent in Japanese to help us improve all support and communications. We are also making plans to redo UO.Com so it will be bi-lingual in English and Japanese. It will preserve all of the information currently on the Japanese website. We recognize the value of all the information and will archive it so nothing is lost and will always be available […]