Ultima Online
On June 20th Electronic Arts announced that they were acquiring Mythic Entertainment, a wholly-owned studio dedicated to developing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games.
The newly named, EA Mythic have now announced that they will team up with the Ultima Online team, although it's currently unclear as to what this will actually mean to the online community.
The statement, on the official website, reads: "These are exciting days for MMORPG fans here at EA. With the acquisition of Mythic, the UO team will be working with the creative folks who brought us Dark Age of Camelot and are hard at work on the spectacular-looking Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. I’m thrilled that the UO team and Mythic will work together to forge Britannia’s future."
"There is much to talk about with our new partners, and it will take some time to review and finalize our plans. Because we need to take that time, we are postponing the announcement that we were going to make this week. The in-game fiction cycle will take a break for a bit and will return soon."
The success of Ultima Online opened the door for the creation of many exciting new massively multiplayer games that have or are about to hit the market. UO is a third-person/isometric fantasy role-playing game set in the Ultima universe. It is online-only and played by thousands of simultaneous users (who pay a monthly fee) on various game servers, also known as shards. It is also known for its extensive timing-based player versus player combat system. Over a million paid accounts have been created in the game.There should be a further announcement in the coming weeks.
Source : Ultima Online
