People have quit UO before, and they will from now on. I would bet that as many people that would quit UO would come back if the devs would bring back the old days!!
At least they should bring back a "classic shard"!
I have been trying to state this for years, ever since the start of AoS.
A pre UO:R server would be amazing. Seeing as there is only one shard, Siege, that has a strictly Fel ruleset.
UO:R, before Pub 16 (Stat scrolls, etc.) would be just as good in my book though, you still get your Tram along with WBB.
You get your Chaos vs. Order system back.
You get your guildwars back, the way they used to be before this broken system. No more alliances.
Big guilds weren't all that rampant back then, and the choke style fighting was pretty much null and void.
You get the old stat loss for PK's, you die, you lose a percentage of your skills. Forcing you to rework them.
You get the old bounty system back.
You don't have to worry about spending millions on armor and weapons to go out and fight.
Most of all to me, thieves are yet again useful and effective.
I truly miss my old disarm thief mage. Though I spent a lot of time burning counts and reworking skills due to stat loss, heh.
I honestly believe if an old style server was made, that it would bring back a lot of old faces and maybe a semi resurgence of UO in the MMO market.
Feel free to post stuff I missed that was great about the old days in support of this idea.
Oh and before anyone goes and says that nobody will leave the items behind. I have at least one of the better mage suits on this game and I would gladly drop everything I own across all servers, just to have an old style server back. Free servers are not the answer here.