In Ink: UO in the Gaming Media – April – June 2012
Okay, it’s been a few months since I last covered the gaming media’s coverage of Ultima Online. Some Clarifications 1) When I say “gaming media” I do not mean some guy with a blog,...
Category: Commentary
EA Executive Mentions UO’s 17th Anniversary (Updated)
Yay! It’s that time of year when Frank Gibeau, President of EA Labels, who is over all of the EA Labels, including BioWare, acknowledges Ultima Online. He didn’t just acknowledge it once, but twice,...
RMT Spam That Breaks the TOS
This greets me within a few minutes of logging online every day. It’s on the Help Channel. You know, one of the first things a new player sees. I can’t remember a time in...
A Comment on Grinding and City Loyalty
What Are We Talking About? The decay of city loyalty ratings and how you maintain them by logging in every day. What Prompted This? There was a thread on Stratics, since locked, about grinding...
Full Transcripts of the UO & MMORPG.com Wayback Wednesday
Tina Small over at Stratics has done an amazing job of putting together a complete transcript of the MMORPG.com Wayback Wednesday with UO. There are actually seven parts because it spanned well over two...
Interview With Another BioWare Mythic Franchise Producer
A few days ago, GamerZines posted an interview with Carrie Gouskous, the Warhammer Franchise Producer at BioWare Mythic, similar to Jeff Skalski’s position as Ultima Franchise Producer. While the interview was ostensibly about Warhammer:...
The MMORPG.com Livestream – Comments, Maybe New Land
So earlier this week, 6 members of the UO team got together with some members of MMORPG.com and did a live stream/broadcast of them playing UO. I thought it would be a great opportunity...
UO’s Top 4 Strengths and Weaknesses
I received an email about last night’s article, Ultima Online: The Awakening (Are We The Rioters?), asking what I thought UO’s strengths and weaknesses were heading into the 15th Anniversary. Now I would place...
Pinco’s UI 5.6 for UO Enhanced Client Released
Last Friday, Pinco’s UI (User Interface) for UO’s Enhanced Client was updated to version 5.6. Among the updates – Pinco worked on the UI to help players handle the new Covetous changes (UO Guide...
UO Stratics Managing Editor Quits, Then Returns
Last month, Petra Fyde, UO Stratics’ Managing Editor, had her three year anniversary celebrated, including a mention on the UO Herald. Today, she quit. I’ve had people bitching at me for days. I don’t...
