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18 Years Later, Why Are People Still Playing Ultima Online?
Later this year, Ultima Online will turn 18 years old. In the genre of MMOs, that makes the game positively ancient – and it’s even more remarkable when you consider that it’s still funded via a subscription model. I’ve never played an Ultima game, much less one that’s nearly my age. I wanted to find out what the game is like to play today as a newcomer, and to ask people why they’ve continued visiting Britannia for nearly two decades.
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I'm amazed it's still around, and on a subscription model no less. But I suppose if they aren't releasing new content(which I'm just assuming they aren't), the operating costs probably aren't very high at all.
I just went looking around on the Ultima sure and it looks like they actually do release new content and patches.