Shuts down. Somewhere a mutated, bastardized version of UO trudges on as it outlives another competitor.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
We may have played longer on free shards than we did on the official servers. Looks like I quit in late 2005, personally, but I don't think I was paying for the game in the 21t century. Started in 1996, I remember I had played during the beta.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
My heyday was from '98 to '01. I'd come back briefly for a time or two after that, but not for long. Just not the same. Fucking Trammies.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I have fond memories of UO. Not so fond memories of the player run shards. It just wasn't the same.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell