Ultima X - Odyssey Development Cancelled

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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everquest

[Grommet - Space Cade]

Everquest is still king of MMORPG and unfortunately i donth think that UO is going to get much closer to it. When EQ2 comes out it is rumoured to be far better than anything around and in dev at the moment although sony are going to keep EQ1 online for extended periods of time also. Lineage2 is the Asisn strongline atm but in a PvP environment it is not really the same thing.

Ultima Online

[Wtcher]

...that is, they probably didn't want to cannibalize that cash cow of theirs to feed another world. I believe that was pretty much the reason why they canned UO2 way back when.