Bruce's Blog

As previously announced in the gaming community Origin Systems (OSI) the makers of Ultima Online and Ultima X: Odyssey is being dissolved and its assets (which includes "employees") are being moved from Texas to California. Apparently they think they will save money by moving a crapload of employees from a fairly cheap area to the money sinkhole that is California.

In response to the move the top two people associated with the UXO project (along with their community person) have left OSI/EA. Rumors in the forums state that key people are leaving from UO also. Not a single person in the leadership of either project have actually said they were staying yet.

Prediction: UXO will be moved to CA then either be knifed by EA (in their typical manner) before release after months or years of delay or shipped in a Horizons-like state (a game without soul, without decent content, buggy as hell, and only liked by a small core of players that seem to love paying for a drab painful world).

So UXO drops off the radar... And in its place comes Everquest 2. Sony seems to have been learning from other games and fixing one of EQ's painful features.