Ultima online released in 1997 and required only a 28k modem.

I also would argue it was a more complex game.

simonjgreen a day ago | parent | next [-]

Publish 124 released last week. Quite incredible that the game is still undergoing development and new content. Admittedly it has changed hands several times, and the Richard Garriot days are a distant memory now, but still!

I used to operate one of the more popular player run shards, after the peak of the mainstream game, and even that feels like a distant memory.

Edit: latest notes https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/publish-notes/publish...

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npunt a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Here's an enjoyable read by lead designer Raph Koster on the influence of UO: https://www.raphkoster.com/2017/09/28/ultima-onlines-influen...

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andrepd a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ultima Online is one of very few games (probably Star Wars Galaxies and that's it) that actually merit the label MMORPG. It's kind of insane when you think about it, that the MMO that most closely came to fulfilling the promise of a "shared, persistent, virtual world" was also the ~first one.

	▲	Nition a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Even if it's not quite technically the first MMO, Origin did also coin the term MMORPG themselves in order to describe Ultima Online to the press.
	▲	omnibrain 21 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		EVE Online.

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asimovfan a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Still no better MMORPG.

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ectospheno a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I played EverQuest on the PS2 using a modem in 2003. Performance was fine.

	▲	aidenn0 a day ago \| parent [-]
		On PvP servers broadband was a huge advantage because you could switch zones much faster.