Ultima Online

“The meta game experience from UO is still unmatched.”

“Loved this game, spent so many hours macroing to keep my stats up.”

“I'm sure they clunky interface would drive me crazy today.”

“the MMO that most closely came to fulfilling the promise of a "shared, persistent, virtual world"”

“Quite incredible that the game is still undergoing development and new content.”

“so amazing before the Tramel/Felucia split”

“In UO, there was a lot of player interaction where I would actually make friends and aquatintes with people I interacted with a lot.”

“very few games that gave me this flash-like sensation of breathtaking wonderment at the vastness of their world”

“it was a real bug-and-exploit-fest”

“Great effort on preserving this piece of gaming history.”

“Assuming that all of the brilliance of UO was architected in a few year span of development.”

“Playing Ultima Online on an unofficial POL server literally got me into IT”

“The human engagement was more genuine to everyday in-person interactions than the current state of MMORPGs”

“I've never seen an online game capture so many ancillary/emergent/accidental gameplay mechanics as well as this”

“let me play my first graphical MMORPG (Ultima Online)”

“The stun -> disarm -> pickpocket -> bludgeon defenseless player scripts are still the most fun I've ever had in an MMO.”

“some of the most fun I had playing Ultima Online”

“UO was a really ahead-of-its-time internet game, as well.”

“Just like we view UO to have been ahead of its time”

“UO was the last MMO that made the mistake of trying to be a world for everyone to live in.”

“UO and Star Wars Galaxies were both MMOs with that experience you describe”

“it's instanced and not alive and part of the world the way UO's housing was”

“Too much of what made it great was due to the fact that it was a new thing.”

“I love the Ultima renaissance now with Ultima VII: Revisited and the Ultima Online servers.”

“A lot of the fun was in the fact basically nobody knew the BEST way to play”

“I'll forever chase the dragon that is the joy of playing UO.”

“It was so great playing in some shards with hundreds of real persons.”

“UO also had maybe the closest thing to a true player economy than any game.”

“My preferred methods at the time, sneaking/breaking into houses, stealing, and ganking/PKing unsuspecting souls”

“It was a sad day when UO introduced Trammel.”

“The bugs are what made UO fun, and the team often treated the bugs as features”

“they are, importantly, in the same world, on the same shard”

“The whole point of the game was to live in this fantasy world, not beat it.”

“the game was fun even for underpowered players, so they kept playing”

“UO was such a big part of my life back then, it's great to hear that it's still going”

“Without the dramatic threat of PVP conflict at most times, UO was less emotionally engaging.”

“In UO, they introduced decay timers so if you abandoned the game, you forfeit your lot.”

“That game and UO were so ahead of their time”

“Some of my best memories are from a public execution of a murderer on Ultima Online back in 1999.”

“helped and guided me through some really hard times with compassion”