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(VIDEO) EA Shot Down Ultima Online Pitch 3 Times - IGN Unfiltered

skett

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Be nice to have his leadership back...
 

Acid Rain

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Nice watch, good call @DJAd

Thanks for pushing it through Rich.
Also wish you were still involved.

- Long Live UO
 

Winker

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I recon those 50,000 original subscribers are still with us and its us who are keeping the game going
 

MalagAste

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I recon those 50,000 original subscribers are still with us and its us who are keeping the game going
I wish I could have been one of them... but I didn't even have a computer till 99... And UO was one of the first games I put on it.
 

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I wish I could have been one of them... but I didn't even have a computer till 99... And UO was one of the first games I put on it.
Almost same time period for me. I had been playing the UO PC games but did not have the internet till 99, then it was the old dial-up, any incoming phone calls kicked me from the game. Really hard to play back then. In 2001, I finally got another line and was able to play with no worries about getting the kick with incoming calls, but my ISP kept doing the midnight shut down for 15 minutes, and the shards I was playing then was not the same time zone as me. It would be a few more years before our cable TV company begin doing the internet market, and with them updating to high-speed fiber optic I enter the high-speed world of UO, WOOT!
 

BrianFreud

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Nice find. :) For anyone interested, I've been digging through old archives, pulling out interesting posts and such. The stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else is getting added to the "Other" tab on Official Communications - Stratics Community Wiki | Stratics Community Forums . I have a pile of more 1996-1998 era stuff to add, whenever I get time. If anyone finds any old posts, articles, interviews, etc, please feel free to PM me the links, and I'll add it when I find time. :)
 

MalagAste

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Almost same time period for me. I had been playing the UO PC games but did not have the internet till 99, then it was the old dial-up, any incoming phone calls kicked me from the game. Really hard to play back then. In 2001, I finally got another line and was able to play with no worries about getting the kick with incoming calls, but my ISP kept doing the midnight shut down for 15 minutes, and the shards I was playing then was not the same time zone as me. It would be a few more years before our cable TV company begin doing the internet market, and with them updating to high-speed fiber optic I enter the high-speed world of UO, WOOT!
I live in a relatively small town. So we had ONE internet provider in '99... Earthlink. It was dial up... I paid over $300 for a "separate" phone line just for my internet because they insisted that the "noise" in my phone was the reason I kept getting booted... when really it was the fact that they were the only game in town that provided "unlimited" internet... the only other ISP's were pay by the min... one was run out of a private shop... I wasn't going to pay by the min... So the entire town relied on ONE ISP... who knew we couldn't go anywhere else so they provided the bare minimum of service which meant whenever joeblow down the street got on to check his email.... I'd be booted off... over and over and over... Until Mediacom Cable brought in Cable internet... then the entire town flocked to that.... which was OK until there started to be more and more of a demand. Eventually it overwhelmed that system and we were back to square one... get satellite internet and be off everytime it rained or the wind blew hard... or put up with download and upload speeds that pretty much were worse than dial-up...

I complained so much that I forced them to come out to my house every week to "fix" the problem for over 18 months.... I also DEMANDED that they reimburse me for not providing what they claimed. I threatened to sue them... so for 18 months I didn't pay for my internet at all ..... and suffered while they upgraded the systems... Now we have some of the fastest internet available. With full fiber-optic service. Was worth the wait but was a hard won battle.
 

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I wish I could have been one of them... but I didn't even have a computer till 99... And UO was one of the first games I put on it.
I read about the beta in PC gaming mag. I missed the beta but was there for the very first day and all the lag and crashing that came with it. It was very, very unstable back then
 

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I read about the beta in PC gaming mag. I missed the beta but was there for the very first day and all the lag and crashing that came with it. It was very, very unstable back then
Was still extremely unstable in 99... I still remember the frequent crashing when they introduced Malas...
 

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Saw an early version at E3. It looked just like Ultima VIII. The pictures sent to magazines all had someone saying "This isn't Ultima VIII"
 
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