UO is like an wounded pet..

You know it has to be put down

Its had a good life

But really, its injured & its well beyond its service life

Whenever I talk to people about UO these days, all it gets is a mocking from them for its declining numbers, terrible graphics, rigid character movement and other areas of woe.

UO:KR was a nice thought, but it was too minimal, poorly executed and far too late. There were opportunities to do more than what this expansion did.. UXO & UO2 for example.

We really needed something major like a sequel.. Not just a graphics change.. UO: Third Dawn afterall was a change in graphics, but it, like KR really did nothing to change the game for the better.

I played primarily when UO:R was released and stopped playing a few months after UO:AOR came out. I was really let down at the end of this period.. I felt that AOR was making UO look a little too much like The Sims. The original player buildings in UO were fantastic, the customizable buildings however looked trashy. I also wasnt fond of the Paladin / Necromancer skill lines as I felt they were pushing the game into a rip-off from other MMO's by using what essentially are classes. Resists, same story.

I should put a summary here even though really I want to fill a few more pages. My basic feelings are.. Too many bad design changes, Gifting the game to mythic was a mistake, needed a re-release as a new game - not a poorly made graphics update.. I feel the game has been let down and the thought of what once was UO is now completely lost

I blame EA entirely