The Queen Mother of MMOs gets a major facelift and its largest dungeon to date
Feb 8, 2007
Ultima Online, which premiered years before anyone had ever heard of a cable modem, has long since passed the age when even successful games are put to pasture. Which is not to say it hasn't been a trendsetter: UO invented PvP, PvE, guild wars, leetspeak, bank slots, ganking, corpse camping, crafting, griefing, monthlies, and the euphemism "time warps" for major server crashes. UO has also been the only US-centric MMO to sport an isometric birds-eye third-person perspective, which is in many ...
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