Re: Ultima Online: boon or bust?

From: "MindShift Design" <mindshift@usa.net>

Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Court Jester wrote in message <01be3874$cf8c6900$9a0bfad1@hp-pavilion>...
>Well, I don't know anything about it, except the friends of mine who play
>it think it's awesome. I've noticed in the local stores it's something like
>70-80 bucks, and I'd like to hear about it as well before I blow that much
>money (I barely get 7.50 a week, so it takes quite a while to get that
>much)

AFAIK not only do you have to pay upfront to get their proprietary software
to play the game, which only runs on certain platforms, but you have to pay
a monthly fee as well to play. Connection time is lagged as well, due to the
way the code is written (with a lot dead time between cycles), and the
processor overhead is huge - to make it run smoothly needs a helluva machine
and oodles of fast DIMM memory.

Then of course they were taken to court allegedly by some early users of the
game who said it didn't live up to the expectations that Ultima projected.

Regards

Jason Paul McCartan
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References

Re: Ultima Online: boon or bust?
"Court Jester" <neville@lankaster.com>
Tue, 05 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Ultima Online: boon or bust?
jonmmorris@aol.com (JonMMorris)
Tue, 05 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000