It’s a way for people to experience this incredibly challenging MMO, and its core features without having a paid subscription. However coming in Spring 2018 is Ultima Online: Endless Journey. The idea behind the game is terrific, but you take something that is normally about honor, justice, and dedication to a noble cause, and throw it onto the Internet? You know what happens. I don’t feel like any of those virtues exist in the MMO, because most of my time was spent being killed and looted. These were the hardest games I played as a young man, exempting maybe Wizardry or Might and Magic. The idea of working with the Virtues (Honesty, Compassion, Love, Valor, Justice, Honor, Sacrifice, Spirituality, Humility) and the gripping fantasy story really sold me on the franchise in general. I have fond memories of Ultima, as it was the second RPG franchise I ever played, starting with Ultima: Exodus on the NES. But eight expansions later, as Ultima Online goes over its 20th year of being open, after all of that chatter about never going free-to-play, we learned at the end of last week that Ultima Online: Endless Journey is coming in Spring of 2018, and all of that goes out of the window! Now, I don’t have a lot of positive memories of Ultima Online. Almost every game that has been around that long, at some point or another, gives in and adds f2p or abandons the subscription model. It debuted in 1997, is 12.99 a month and has had a subscription ever since, with no f2p options. It has a subscription price and is over 20 years old. Let’s just say that again and really give it some thought.
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