Island of Kesmaireal classics being shut down
This is just the beginning.
Not sure if this will work for a link but gonna try it.
I'd say that's one of those stories UO players like to tell each other, but that gets rarely shared outside of UO circles.I still firmly believe that it's position would be safe simply because it was the first and frankly no one is going to want to close down what is the first.
If you ask any gamer what the first MMORPG was, chances are they’ll tell you it was Ultima Online. While Ultima Online is far from the first MMO game, it is largely responsible for the popularity of today’s MMORPGs. The development team behind Ultima Online took the best parts of the game’s predecessors and did it better – Ultima Online had a better story, better graphics, and better game mechanics than any MMORPG that came before.
etc. pp.Finally, MMORPGs as defined today began with Meridian 59 in 1996, innovative both in its scope and in offering first-person 3D graphics, with The Realm Online appearing nearly simultaneously.[20] Ultima Online, released in 1997, is often credited with first popularizing the genre,[20] though more mainstream attention was garnered by 1999's EverQuest and Asheron's Call in the West[20] and 1996's Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds in South Korea.
LMAO We been hearing this doom and gloom for 25 years and here we still stand.This is just the beginning.
A lot of companies have began making cutbacks.
There's a few reasons why but Broadsword won't be around much longer unless Mesanna makes some good decisions quick.
Until we don't.LMAO We been hearing this doom and gloom for 25 years and here we still stand.
Wow. I did not know about this at all. Interesting read.Sorry to break it to everybody, but UO is not the longest running MMORPG. Check the ultima online entry at Wikipedia (under Reception -> Awards) - the reward from the guiness book was revoked as there was another MMORPG (Furcadia) a bit older than UO.
So the guiness book has apparently credited Furcadia as the longest running MMORPG:
Furcadia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
You haven't been hearing it that long as you haven't been playing UO for 25 years.LMAO We been hearing this doom and gloom for 25 years and here we still stand.
When UO is shut down, the last person to say it will proclaim "I was right!!" but that doesn't change that it'll just be coincidence and that people have been predicting this game's imminent death for its entire run. The first prediction of the game's imminent death I have ever found was one month after release and the issue of the moment was the lack of implementation of the ferry from Skara to the mainland.Until we don't.
OMG You are so funny and have no clue what you are talking about.You haven't been hearing it that long as you haven't been playing UO for 25 years.
Even older single-player games are around - from well before UO. Case in point: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (Sierra Online). It's on Steam as are sequels. If things go "south" for UO, it might well end up on Steam after all!Not sure if anyone has heard but the sky is falling, and global warming will kill us all in a couple of years! There are always rumors of older games closing, and fears that one day we will lose our world. One day it probably will happen, but I am not going to go about everyday worrying that tomorrow is the last.
Umm, how exactly? Unlike single-player games, UO requires a server. If things go south for UO, the only alternative would be private shards. Considering that some of them are better run than the official one (not exactly a high standard), may not be a bad thing.Even older single-player games are around - from well before UO. Case in point: Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (Sierra Online). It's on Steam as are sequels. If things go "south" for UO, it might well end up on Steam after all!
On the "how", they could do it like with that T2A demo UODemo Wiki, i.e. package a single player server along with the client.Umm, how exactly? Unlike single-player games, UO requires a server.