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Welcome Ravenmane. May your travels be companionable, profitable and FUN!

It's worth it to play the game for the remainder of the original client. The new game/expansion "Kingdom Reborn" is looming and while the new interface & graphics will undoubtedly provide a brief spurt in subscriptions, I think the game will dwindle out after a while, especially once they actually eliminate the original client.

Who knows, I mean I may be very wrong. It might continue to grow under the new game. A lot of us will leave once the original client is killed but the game might draw in more new people than those who leave. It will be a different game but might take off and do well.

Ah, Atlantic. I hope you are strong enough to survive BARTON!

I highly doubt a lot of people will leave with the new client. I am sure a small handful will leave and squawk very loudly as they do, But the fast overwhelming majority of people I communicate with online and in the real world are looking forward to the upgrade and can't wait for it to get here.

the things that make Ultima Online a great game will still be in the game crafting, housing, etc... they are not throwing out the game and implementing something completely different and calling it Ultima they are just upgrading the graphics and interface. (witch are essentially the same as when I started almost 10 years ago on my 486dx2 computer)

just about everyone I talk to about the graphics upgrade all say the same thing ... "about time.." "wow it looks really good I can't wait.." and so on.

the reason people play Ultima has never been about the graphics it has been about two things 1) content and diversity of game play and 2) the isometric view (3/4 top down) and these are not changing in any way with the new client. A house doesn't change because it gets a new coat of paint its still the same house.

so myself and a lot of others will still be here even after the upgrade. it is a great game and will continue to be a great game.

Welcome to Britannia. : ) If you now find yourself in a game you need help with, please give me an ICQ, I love to help new players. I have a bit of the teacher in me I think and I find it fun. Also, we have people in the guild who are very, very good at pvp if you are interested in that aspect of game play, and they will be happy to help you go in that direction. As for myself, I enjoy pvp amongst friends, but I'm just not that competitive that I want to hit Fel Yew with the guys, but I'm still not half bad! Again, welcome to Britannia, and I hope you find yourself amongst friends.

UO has always been more about the players than the game. UO has a rabid fan base...I mean that in a good way. It has been around longer than any other MMO and will continue for quite a while I think. The EA/Mythic merger seems to have really breathed some fresh blood into the dev team.

UO is what we make of it. So come in and get hooked like the rest of us!