In the past few weeks your entries have tickled our funny bones, tugged at our heart strings and stirred up many enjoyable memories. In some shards the competition was fierce and forced many of us to diligently scour through many entries. Other shards the choice was much simpler. In either case, we would like to thank all of players for their amazing memories and announce our winning picks for your memorable UO moments. The first moments we would like to publish are the ones from the Balhae Shard. We received only four entries, so all of the entries are winners! […]

It is Monday again. Although the Dev team already answered a ton of questions during the Anniversary Party on Saturday (a recording of this will be eleased later this week), they took the time to address these questions gathered on the different fan sites, too. Slayer properties on instruments: Was wondering if we could ever get a way to craft slayer musical instruments. Either thru runic saws or possibly new recipes for carpenters to make? (Xalan Dementia) Could maybe someday imbuing move to instruments? (JamesC ) I’d like to be able to imbue GM instruments with slayer properties using the […]

In line with the writing contest and the Memorable Moments Bonnie gave us at the beginning of this week, we asked Richard Garriot to shared some of his memories with us. He was kind enough to come up with two stories: The Thief One day, early in the life of UO, I was participating as a GM and going to the aid of people who requested it. A note flashed across my screen from a woman, who said something like “Today is my first day trying to play UO, and every time I try to leave town a thief steals […]

Everyone here is very excited to get the party started. Official beginning on Saturday is 10:30am EDT. When you arrive at 4035 Ridge Top Road please come to the 2nd floor (just follow the smell of fresh brewed coffee, we will also have tea for those that do not drink coffee) Ultima Online’s 15th Anniversary Party Itinerary 10:00 am – 11:00 am  – Greet players and have coffee and donuts 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Welcome Speeches 12:00pm – 1:30 pm –  Lunch and cake 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – Special guest – question and answer period 2:20 […]

Happy Birthday Ultima Online!! I wanted to drop you guys a note on this extremely memorable day. Can you believe its 15 years already? I have been reading all your stories, which are great I have to say. Some have made me grin, some I have shared with people not on our team and some I just shook my head thinking yep I know what they are talking about.  *grins* So with that said I want to share a few of my memorable moments that stand out to me, I hope some of you can relate. Back in September 1997 […]

The Ultima Online team has received another set of questions last week. Here are the answers. The Rustic and Gothic theme packs can not be bought together, as they could from uogamecodes.com, are there any plans to make that possible? (Snyder330)  When the change was made to Origin Store that was left out, we will add it back in next time we go to put something up on the store. Some Origin stores outside of the US don’t all have the full range of items – when the High Seas booster will be available in EMEA region? (Sir Z), – […]

Written by members of the community Issue 8 WORLD NEWS ELDERLY EXHIBIT BAFFLING BEHAVIOR Britannia’s recently appointed sleuth and oracle, Misk has been looking into the recent bizarre behavior of New Haven citizens offering quests to new adventurers in town. Industrious do-gooders looking to make a quick sack of gold have been oft times led on lengthy goose-chases for very little compensation for the effort. Misk claims that an attempt to create more diversity in the town community with a varied age range, may have affected those individuals’ personalities particularly towards the upper limits. In other words, old people are […]

The Ultima Online team has received another set of questions last week. Here are the answers. Concerns People using high Seas boats, moored along side each other, to ‘house hide’ in PvP.   Mesanna: We have written this up as a bug and hope to have it fixed soon.  Questions Are there any plans to make gargoyle horn dye and/or restyle available on hairdressers? Daslo, Neverplay UO, Cerwin Vega Mesanna: After speaking with the team we think Horn Dressers is a good idea…Thanks  for the suggestion. Are there any plans to revamp Doom? By this I mean changing or evolving […]

If you have visited the shard Baja you might have encountered a quite original being called The Yattering. With Mesanna’s help we were able to address him, ask him some questions, and get away without getting bitten – although he was constantly eyeing our notice book. Here are his answers: How do you keep your teeth so sharp? Mama say “no more bitings.” yatter gnawing guardy bones now. How do you like living in a tree? loves yattertree! Can you tell us what it was like being part of the town guards and why you quit? no quit! yattering best […]

Written by the EM Team     Dupre’s gleaming platemail was scarred and battered as he approached the walled sandstone city, great strips of it ripped away by the attacks of the vicious mechanical beasts. He’d left too many men, elves, and gargoyles dead in the final struggle to rid them of the foul beast Exodus…and despite Sacrifice being a virtue, he wondered if it hadn’t taken more than its share this time. And why did it seem that those younger, faster, and stronger than he were so oft chosen while Sacrifice had merely passed him by all these years? Or […]