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Broadsword successor to development of UO!
- Thread starter Vorspire
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Hmm, seems to me it died around the time EA took over
But UO emulators will never die!
EA owned UO from the beginning. The buyout of Origin took place around Ultima VII, there's several ingame easter eggs about the buyout and that was 5 years prior to UO. Origin still existed as a subsidiary, but the EA controlling atmosphere had already begun and had already negatively impacted the single player games before UO came to be (Prime example, Ultima 8). The only thing that changed was the the closing of the physical studio, but by that point most of the employees were EA, not the original Origin crowd.
He and Starr Long were among the last to leave and may have been under contract. I'd love to blame EA for the direction UO went in, but in all honesty, most of the changes disliked by veterans the most (Trammel, AoS, The sorry excuse for a 3D client) were due to player request. As other MMOs started coming out, players wanted newer and shinier things and the devs were simply playing to the market. Even before the game came out, many of the most innovative features didnt make it into the game due to negative player reaction during Alpha.