I'm surprised to see it show up on these forums as much as it does. With the grace of whatever roaming moderator (read: Smart bomb that locks threads) sees this, I'd like it if anyone who played UO could post so here and a short descript of when, which shard and what you liked, didn't like etc.

I always wanted to play UO, was it good for it's time?

Its golden day was a long time ago (I'd say 1998-2001) when it was fucking liquid awesome and pvp was completely unrestricted. You could own houses, fight monsters and people equally and just have a fucking good time. Over the last 7 years since they've released 6 expansion packs, each of them undermining the work you just did to become super leet and adding in new content that has little, if nothing, to do with the previous content. At one point they decided to add a Japanese element to the medieval European game, just for shits and dollars.

Before they edited the fuck out of it, it was the best game. No Mmo has every touched how good it used to be.

Well, I played tibia in 02ish which was based on UO..

my friends trying to get me into it. is it still free?

Was it ever free? Cause I might play.

Tibia was the shit but then they fucked it up w/ the 05 update w/ the whole soul point system.

Yeah, played till 7.6 and then said fuck it. Even had a few OTs. Good times.

I think that, like WoW, there's plenty of private servers out there. Not sure though. If you find any good ones, let me know.

I've always wanted to get into this game, but keep passing it up.

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-yar.

God, my friend ran an OT that was fucking insane. The war ones are the best.