From 98-04 I played UO and loved it. Did any one else play during this time to see UO go from one of the best MMO games to a horrible sham?
Back when UO started I loved being able to go around PKing most everyone, looting houses, scamming people and being an all around villain. The capacity of people to choose to be good, evil or somewhere inbetween made for a truly interesting player community and really kept you guessing unlike the EQ based MMO's of today. I also loved that OSI took the stance that scamming another player was fine so long as you didn't exploit a bug in the game to do so. So if you could "sweet talk" other players they couldn't just page a GM, additionally because there was no unique naming and you could easily change the look of your character and vanish into the night, and even if a person did remember your name they had no way to /whisper or /where you so they had to find you first.
All in all UO stands as one of the more unique games and for me personally was the most enjoyable MMO because it gave good variety, a hard to quantify risk since other players were the biggest risk in dungeons and avoided the grinding issues and limited class based characters.
Anyone else remember this game from back then? Any stories to tell? Anyone play it today? I can only imagine how horrible Brit bank must look these days with ethy dragons and blaze and ice coloured everything...
