# Anyone ever try the revival of ultima online called "ultima online forever"?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** video-games-e-games\
**Created:** [May 8, 2024, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-try-the-revival-of-ultima-online-called-ultima-online-forever/1001249 "2024-05-08T09:01:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-try-the-revival-of-ultima-online-called-ultima-online-forever/1001249/1 "2024-05-08T09:01:59Z")

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I didn’t get to play Ultima online when it was out due to not having decent online or a good enough PC to play it and by the time I did EverQuest hit it big

But I found this on a facebook post and I’m going to try it

> **[About Forever](https://uoforever.com/about-us/)**
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> What Ultima Online Forever is about. The longest lasting large absolutely free server to date.

I wondered how authentic to the original experience of it and just general tips and the like

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-try-the-revival-of-ultima-online-called-ultima-online-forever/1001249/2 "2024-05-08T13:09:31Z")

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Huh, I had no idea Ultima Online was still a thing.

I’ll add a follow-up; Did Richard Garriot ever publish the new Ultima game he was supposed to be working on? The not-a-sequel, but wholly new game featuring the Avatar. Seems like if it came out, it was a failure. I’ve heard no talk about it.

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-try-the-revival-of-ultima-online-called-ultima-online-forever/1001249/3 "2024-05-20T10:29:16Z")

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well ive been playing it off and on for a while and other than the server I’m on being empty meaning there’s too many moms in places it’s not that bad  
but the graphics are ancient and I can see why people loved the QOL improvements in EverQuest… i mean a lot of things are too fiddly or specific if you have 50 different things to sell say some weapons … some jewelry ect you have to go to each type. They only buy things to do with the stated craft … so gems to the jewelry weapons to the weapons guy and armor to the armor guy …

and it seems that they have “supermonsters” like a lot of MMOs did back then like I was in a graveyard killing skeletons and 1 out of 5 would just be able to kick the crap out of me and take forever to kill but he was just a run of the mill skeleton …

Also, things important things are broken like paying for skill training …and there’s no defense or damage numbers on the swords and armor …

and money’s easy to get…even if someone didn’t hand me a 100k check …