gamezig.com - 5/1/2009
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Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today officially announced Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss the upcoming expansion to legendary MMORPG Ultima Online. Slated for release this summer, Stygian Abyss will be the eighth expansion to one of the longest-running MMORPGs ...
Ultima Online™
uoherald.com 5/11/2009 — Stygian Abyss Beta Sign-Up Hidden for generations, the catacombs of the Abyss lay all but silent. The bridge between the Gargoyle homeland, Ter Mur, and the lands of Britannia is at its best, dangerous, and at its worst ... the end of all existence ...
We're missing something in our MMOs
massively.com 10/20/2009 —
Game design has certainly come a long way from Ultima Online , the first real example of what we now think of as the MMO genre. We've gone from games with no restrictions on behaviors to games where it's almost impossible to be truly horrid to ...
Ultima Online - Stygian Abyss
uoherald.com 9/11/2008 — The Stygian Abyss An entrance to the Stygian Abyss has been discovered upon the world of Sosaria, hidden in the seething caldera of a newly-risen volcano. At first glance nothing more than a colossal web of dank caverns and oppressive dungeons, it ...
LegendMUD
mud.wikia.com 1/13/2009 — The moods system found in Star Wars Galaxies is a direct copy of the LegendMUD system, even making use of some of the same messages. The LegendMUD Terms of Service document was notable for its emphasis on a social contract with its users. This gave ...
How important are levels in our MMOs?
syncaine.wordpress.com 11/6/2008 — I want to talk today about the idea of levels in MMOs, and whether their time has come and gone. Many people argue Warhammer Online would be a far superior game without levels, and we have seen similar arguments made for other MMOs as well. (Why ...
Fixing MMOs Is Hard
brokentoys.org 2/4/2009 — Tom Chick: MMOs are broken! Fix!
The Narrator: No, you mean WoW is broken.
And now we have:
Trembling Hand: Oh come on, they’re broken, fix plz.
So I thought I’d share my jaded, broken-on-the-wheel-of-pain response to the ...
Database “sharding” came from UO?
raphkoster.com 1/12/2009 — Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term . What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be described that way?
So I started reading a bit about ...
The perils of MMO tourism
massively.com 28 days ago —
MMOs are a big business these days. This hasn't always been the case -- Ultima Online might have been the first real game of the genre, but it didn't make everyone want to build a competitor. It was the success of World of Warcraft that really ...
Mythic Entertainment | Ultima Online - Play the 14-Day Free Trial!
uoherald.com 9/28/2009 — Step 1: Create account at www.ultima-registration.com Click "Create Account", following account creation instructions - when prompted, enter registration code: FREE-UOKR-REG1-14DT Step 2: Download Game Client Allow patch screen to update and then ...
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