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Ultima X - Odyssey Development Cancelled

Posted by simoniker on from the ultimately-canned dept.

eToychest writes "According to a post by David Yeeon on the front page of the official EA site, PC MMO title Ultima X: Odyssey has been cancelled. The post reads: 'As of today, development on Ultima X: Odyssey has ended. We feel that Ultima Online is where we need to focus our online efforts and most of my team will be moving to the UO expansion pack, the UO live team, and an unannounced Ultima Online project.' It's too bad, but perhaps it was for the best." GameSpot sketches out the background, explaining: "The [August 2003-announced] game went through an evolution when its design and development staff were recently moved from EA's Austin, TX studio to the company's main Redwood Shores campus... UXO was to have picked up where the Ultima IX storyline left off", and GameSpy adds that the new Ultima Online expansion pack "will be officially revealed later this month at an EA press event."

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  1. Typical by Dizzle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Another day, another cancelled MMO game. We should stop reporting MMO's that get cancelled and start reporting the ones that don't!

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    -Dizzle
    "I most likely AM so interested in myself."
  2. Wow by Snowspinner · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think this makes Ultima Online 2 the only game in history to be cancelled twice, no?

    --
    Philip Sandifer's academic website
  3. Re:Not Surprized... by Jerf · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is no "Origin" anymore. That company has been dead for years. There is only a name, with little or no continuity of any kind.

    So, I'd modify your point to "Origin/EA/Whatever it is, has turned into a flakey company lately, that just can't deliver a good MMO to the market."... except that "turned into... lately" probably isn't justified either.

    "EA is a flakey company that just can't deliver a good game to market reliably" is something I can get behind.

    "Ultima X: Grand Theft Quake Dance Revolution" will be coming soon to a store near you! See the Avatar's focus-group-approved big tits! Hear eighty-two licensed tracks from Britney Spears! Test your virtue as you steal 57 varieties of palette-shifted dragons and wreak havoc on eight cities and assorted villages in the name of virtue!

    ("Ultima X: Grand Theft Quake Dance Revolution" has been cancelled in favor of the new UO expansion pack "Cow of Something Ultima-ish".)

    (All hail the Hoe of Destruction!)