Ultima Online has 100,000 Players
The important bit: Electronic Arts announced unparalleled demand from consumers has catapulted ORIGIN Systems' Ultima Online to yet another record the largest paying online-only game community in the world.
Ultima Online has 100,000 Players is the news today, and for late 1998 PC players that usually means one thing: another download, patch, demo, date, or box hitting shelves.
The important bit: Electronic Arts announced unparalleled demand from consumers has catapulted ORIGIN Systems’ Ultima Online to yet another record the largest paying online-only game community in the world. Today, more than 100,000 consumers each pay US$ 9.95 per month to play in the persistent online medieval fantasy role-playing game, Ultima Online, created by ORIGIN Systems, Electronic Arts’ Austin, Texas-based subsidiary. Ultima Online brings to life the fantasyland of Britannia as a living, persistent, virtual world that exists only on the Internet.
That is the kind of practical news that actually helps. Either grab it, patch it, or mark the date before the next flood of downloads buries it.