As I have stated before, UO is already dead. EA stopped paying the servers awhile ago, sooner or later they will realize they aren't being paid, there will be massive lag at first, there will be problems with the Herald (AH HA!!!!!!), there will be login server issues, then the shards will shut down one by one.
Oh wait, the Herald just worked for me.
Luckily, my site also predicts this; things will stop working, then come back temporarily. All is a sign of the impending end.
-Galen's player