Ultima Online is celebrating its 25th anniversary! You know what that means, right? Story time! In the spirit of #gamedev and inspired by the classic UO postmortem video by Raph Koster, et al, I thought it’d be fun to share a few stories from the middle years of Ultima Online between my time at EA Redwood Shores and Mythic Fairfax. Today’s tale: a technical teardown of burning down cheaters’ house
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