Publish 85.5

We will be putting out a patch starting this afternoon with Oceania, everyone else will get it with your with normal scheduled maintenance. Publish 85.5.0 Governor System Updates The following changes have been made related to the Governor System, • Funds from the purchase of City Banners and City Titles will now be deposited to the City Treasury. • City Bulletin Boards have been made more functional to allow Governors to post news. o Governors may set a Headline and an Article by using the context menu on their City Bulletin Board. o Headlines will be displayed when a player […]


VvV Focus Group Needed

Greetings!! We are seeking 13 to 15 interested individuals to participate in a focus group for our upcoming feature, Vice vs Virtue!  Interested individuals should: Have an active, Ultima Online subscription free of any past infractions A passion for, and experience with, Player vs Player combat in UO Be willing to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement Be able to communicate and critique in a respectable and adult manner If you are interested send your account name (no passwords ever!), and a brief description of why you would like to be considered for this focus group to Mesanna@broadsword.com .  See you in Britannia, The […]


Bugged Character Transfer Issues

Greetings Everyone,    We have resolved the issue that caused the bug with the incomplete character transfers.  If you have a incompleted transfer that you are unable to unpack please page a GM.  If your character transfer has not completed the cycle please do not panic we have not turned it back on yet.  We hope to have it back on by Monday.  I will post again on Monday and give you an update on when we might be able to turn it back on.   Thank you for your patience and have a great weekend! UO Team  


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.


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 […]



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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]