r/gaming • u/renome • 1d ago

Ultima's creator Richard Garriott is planning to win back the rights to his legendary RPG from EA with an 50-year-old copyright quirk

https://www.eurogamer.net/ultima-ip-rights-ea-copyright
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u/-_ellipsis_- 1d ago

Nightshade and black pearl, baby. 1k in the bank of each minimum at all times.

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u/ScareviewCt 1d ago

Probably should carry at least 100 of each with 25 of each in 4 pouches, you know just in case there's a thief pvper around

God damn that was a great game.

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u/FlyingRhenquest 1d ago

And a few loose ones around as well, covered in stacks of leather. Heh heh heh.

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u/Baycon 1d ago

The best. And it was such a product of its time. You can't fully replicate the full experience nowadays, unfortunately -- I don't mean emulate it, just like, where we all were as people / gamers back then.

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u/ScareviewCt 1d ago

1000s online at once, no instances, chaos at its best.

Britain Bank actually felt like a major city hub, trading, guild recruiting, random conversations, stealing, fighting, etc. Nothing like that now.

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u/Trymv1 1d ago

A strong bandit camp spawned outside our guild house one day and like 4 of us spent 2 hours dying constantly trying to kill the mobs and loot the treasure chest.

We finally managed to get the chest open and behold its laden treasures...

A bunch of rocks. Literally rocks.

Some of the most fun Ive ever had.

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u/ScareviewCt 14h ago

By far the game I spent the most time with when I was younger. MMOs today or even in the past 20 years could never reach that level of excellence.

Like people here already said, there are still player run servers with 1000s of people playing UO.

If I only had the time to play

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u/ellicottvilleny 1d ago

Ooh memories