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I wish they wouldn't have fired Richard Garriot.. then I believe none of this would've happened. The "wake" in which they burned all UO2 documents and progress so far would never have taken place, and the game would most likely have been finished.

It seem to be some mixed information about what really happened at the end of UO2 though (more detailed information than what I wrote), wether EA isn't allowed to make a game called Ultima Online 2 at all, or wether they just don't feel the motivation considering Richard burned all the information about it. Does somebody know for sure?


This is something I picked up from a website a while ago, which is a little different from what I've seen at other pages, but which seems to make sense though:

Garriot sued EA for the Ultima name back when they fired him (even though they said he left the company)

and he had won the case, and because of this production of Ultima Online 2 was cancelled. and they instead worked on creating UO with 3d implementation.. they of course attempted to cover up by saying the "audience" were all hanging around UO, but we all know that isnt true.

Then another guy wrote this:

They canceled UO2 not because of Garriot, but because they didnt want to detract from their cash cow UO. Where are the links to him keeping the Ultima name? Why make Lineage games instead of Ultima if he had the rights? Why would EA create an Ultima game if they didnt have the rights?

And a third guy wrote this:

UO2 was partly becasue of garriot because he posted pics of him and his group burning the last written design docs on UO2, however, EA still had rights to the design that was implimented.. As the ideas were still owned by garriot as they were not officially added to the game....

The mechanical blackthorn and what not was taken over my EA and the whole new world order theme but was scrapped as they didn't have the design and story board that garriot didn't impliment into it so they scraped it and went 3d

So what is the true story? Which one of these three "more detailed" stories is the true one, could somebody verify?

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