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RunUO Ultima Online Emulator Goes Opensource

Posted by Zonk on from the first-major-opensource-mmog? dept.

Retalin writes "It looks like RunUO, the largest Ultima Online Emulator around has decided to opensource their project. It's caused quite a stir in their 40,000+ userbase." From the announcement post: "The RunUO team has collectively decided that we will be open sourcing RunUO's core to the public. At this point for the most part, the core is done and the only things remaining are game layer features. We have totally rewritten the networking piece of RunUO and Factions are pretty stable. We have completed a lot of the Ninja additions to UO and are ready to release the core code to the world."

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  1. Why hasn't EA killed this? by Skynet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is pretty much the same thing as the battlenet emulator that Blizzard killed, is it not? Why hasn't EA shot it down?

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