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But it was canceled in early development in 2001. That's only 3 years before WoW...

Go look at UO2 screenshots and then compare them to WoW. Even though they had no way of knowing a game such as WoW was going to be released, I think they made a smart move to cancel UO2. Technologically, they were going to fall behind very quickly with the advent of "pretty" games such as Lineage I/II, SWG, and WoW.

I think within the next couple years EA will begin and/or announce a proper successor to UO now that EA has grown a bagillion times wealthier.

Yeah well like most UO-players know graphics isn't really the main factor to what makes a game worth playing ;p However I do agree with you on that I think most less devoted UO-players would've left for WoW when it was released, I still would've wanted to see UO2 get finished tho, because I think that if it was ever even close to as good as UO1 is, then it could still have been a great game, even tho it would hardly have gotten as big as WoW. The game experience and feeling is according to me way more important than the graphics tho, just look at how long UO1 has survived, and the graphic there sure isn't good ;p

However if Richard Garriot didn't actually stop them completely from making a UO2 game (as some theorys say), then I hope they'll be making one soon, one with a lot of nice graphics and a real nice gaming experience. But I guess that's just wishful thinking though =/

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