Ultima Online 2

[tRoG]

What ever happened to it? I'm sure I heard something about it ages ago. Was it canned?

I should really keep up to date

 

[Gorryk]

Ultima Online 2 (or Ultima Worlds Online:Origins as it became known) was cancelled by EA a few months before going into beta about 3 years ago... Apparently, with Earth and Beyond, and The Sims Online, EA didn't think they needed 3 MMORPG's in development. Both of those bombed big time and EA kinda regrets ditching UO2 now. They then Tried to make UOX: Oddessy into a MMORPG more in the style of the previous single player Ultima games but that too was cancelled recently, as EA decide to concentrate on the Original UO and possibly starting again on a new sequel to UO...

Basically, EA screwed up big time shooting themselves in the foot several times. UWO:Origins looked friggin awesome... Greeat graphics for it's time, and it had pirates! Oddessy looked like EA had realised their mistake and tried to rectify it by tacking on MP support to Ultima 10, which has ruined that series of games now it's cancelled, and now they are putting all their effeort into the 8th UO addon :> It's a bit of a joke really. Everything went to crap after OSI was bought out by EA...

 

[Morchaoron]

yes EA screwed up bigtime, you would even start out with more skill on your characther if you paid more IRL money, usually its heavy ebaying that demoralizes players but here EA decided to help a hand itself instead uke: uke:

 

[Karam_Gruul]

EA are absolute wank stains... i cant beleive how much they trashed UO.. i went back on the other day for a laugh, and its dead.. theres no one around.. i dont think UO has long left before its ended, it was the greatest game ever, and if only origin had kept the game and kept it they're way it would still be one of the most popular in the world, and i';d still be playing it for sure

makes me sick