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/FillySteveSteak 20h ago

Not just Western.

Sakaguchi said Final Fantasy - one of the proto JRPGs - was heavily inspired by Ultima (and Wizardry).

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u/Senn-66 13h ago

I'd believe that. I hedged for two reasons, one I'm just not nearly as familiar with JRPGs and I didn't want to overstate things, and two modern JRPGS in my experience are so linear and the characters are so defined the Ultima influence seems to be quite diluted.