War Stories: Lord British created an ecology for Ultima Online, but no one saw it

[petemage]

Likely not news to many of us, but a great writeup of it with some footage and laughs Hope it wasn't posted like four weeks ago already..

War Stories: Lord British created an ecology for Ultima Online, but no one saw it


Unfortunately, despite the big reach ArsTechnica has among readers, there is no mention of UO becoming free to play soon :/

 

[Spartan]

Ars has always tread lightly around EA when it comes to gaming changes like the upcoming EJ. If the Devs or Broadside or EA would simply put out a statement advertising its coming Ars and other interested parties would get it out there for them.

 

[Capt. Lucky]

I heard somewhere something like the bears would level up killing deer and such until they became uber and basically unable to be killed lol

 

[DevilsOwn]

wish I had seen this - one of my favorite things in game is watching the grasses blossom into flowers

 

[grimiz]

*begins to brute force Moonshark5000*....

 

[petemage]

*begins to brute force Moonshark5000*....

Hahahah, exactly my first thought too

 

[The Craftsman]

Funny enough I came across this video just a couple of weeks ago. Really interesting.

 

[Amber Witch]

I heard somewhere something like the bears would level up killing deer and such until they became uber and basically unable to be killed lol

The introduction of Man into the environment is what quickly caused the ecology to become imbalanced. Introduce humans into the world, give em a weapon, and what's the first thing they do? Kill everything in sight.
Per Richard @ the 20th Anniversary event.

 

[Dot_Warner]

The "ecology" didn't even last a few days and was horribly, horribly, HORRIBLY broken from the start. The idea was novel, could have been great, but the implementation was...lacking (in the extreme).

 

[petemage]

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Per Richard @ the 20th Anniversary event.

Only that nobody at Broadsword saw an opportunity to create a 3 minute interview with him and post it on the website..