What is Ultima Online

What is Ultima Online?

Ultima Online is a massively multiplayer online game set in the Ultima universe. It was developed and published by Origin in 1997 for the IBM-PC, in a time when the Internet just started to become popular.

The game is basically a huge online world called Britannia, where diverse players live their digital lives and do whatever they want in a "sandbox" style mmorpg format. The world is constantly developed and new, updated versions are created every year.

Ultima Online was a huge success for Origin essentially giving birth to the online MMORPG.