Why I play Ultima Online

bixxby_sl said:

Everquest was better

--Oldschoolgamergirl6969

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Asheron's Call > UO > EQ

BubbySoup_sl said:

Correct Sir, it is generally recognised as being the 1st graphical MMORPG

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Sadly NWN on AOL was back in the days of when you had to pay AOL for ever hour you were online. Didn't bode well for anyone wanting to put massive hours into a game. Imagine paying over $100 a month for your MMO sub, cause it's what you paid on AOL to play NWN.

Blackyce_sl said:

Asheron's Call > UO > EQ

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This guy agrees:

Haha, I'm so glad for all the feigned indignation.

BubbySoup_sl said:

Correct Sir, it is generally recognised as being the 1st graphical MMORPG

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Not to mention how fun it was to throw feeb on someone to see XXX is Stupid then kill em screaming, 'Hit the gate'.

I don't play UO to crush, I play it to bake bread!

(does anyone even get this joke?)

Yes. Some of us are old;/

Edit. I should ad that I never played Shadowbane.

Astral Projection_sl said:

This guy agrees:

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Can this bro please be the official rerolled public relations guy?

Shouldn't be too hard, he's probably already a member.

Kid Sized Coffin_sl said:

Haha, I'm so glad for all the feigned indignation.

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I for one am indignant.

Never cared for UO. Logged in, mined some rocks, went to town, some dude at clipping range shot a fireball at me and then the town guard MURDERED ME.

Said, "Gay" out loud, logged off, uninstalled, went back to trading poorly phrased insults and racial slurs with russians, in broken english, on my favorite RP/PKmud.

But there are 2 other UO threads already. A lot of people dug it.

My first MMO:

Blackyce_sl said:

Sadly NWN on AOL was back in the days of when you had to pay AOL for ever hour you were online. Didn't bode well for anyone wanting to put massive hours into a game. Imagine paying over $100 a month for your MMO sub, cause it's what you paid on AOL to play NWN.

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before The Realm there was INN (Imagination Network) which was from sierra and basically a big chat room with customizable avatars and one month during the winter of 95 my internet bill from sierra was something like 135 dollars. this was on a 14.4 or maybe even a 9600 baud connection.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

before The Realm there was INN (Imagination Network) which was from sierra and basically a big chat room with customizable avatars and one month during the winter of 95 my internet bill from sierra was something like 135 dollars. this was on a 14.4 or maybe even a 9600 baud connection.

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Some of the people reading this probably don't even know what baud means.

I played Yserbius on a 2400 baud modem on Sierra INN back in like '92 or something.

Going to 1200 from 300 was like woah -- Vtech.

And then it was only a year later or so later and 2400! MY GOD MAN.

I remember getting a 14.4 and then the 19k's came out and I was all like, "Hrm -- nah. 14 is plenty fast!"

AND IT WAS. AND THAT'S HOW WE LIKED IT.

I went from 2400 to 14.4k and it was amazing. But then when i got to 56k I was like "OMG A whole line of text scrolls down my screen in a split second!!"

hah; I remember the going from 56k to getting on a T1 in college. Unfortunately the T1 had like 10 times the users it could support, so it was slower than DSL--but even still, it was amazing. Afullsong downloaded in like 5-6 minutes! I was inAWEof the speed.

It's amazing today I'm so spoiled I get annoyed when a program takes longer than 20 seconds; on my phone...while I'm streaming youtube videos.

holy shit i totally forgot about yserbius. i played that too, or at least i tried to, rooms were always packed and the waiting list was tarded. the realm had a waiting list too. i wonder how many of today's gamers would put up with a server waiting list, constantly refreshing hoping that somebody logs off so you could get in?