Ghosts of Games Gone By

Lord of Ultima wasn't the first MMO to go dark.  It wasn't so long ago that faithful players of Star Wars: Galaxies and City of Heroes watched hopelessly as the axe fell.  

Remember the first real racing MMO, Motor City Online?  EA tried in vain to convince us that the online components of then new Need For Speed titles would be a good substitute.  Except it never was and led to the annoying Autolog.  

It was a web based interface players were forced to go through even for single player games!  It laid the foundation for the hated Battlelog in Battlefield 3 and 4 where you can now be completely locked out of any play mode of a game due to a server outage.  The precursor of "always on" and relentless promotion of ever more crappy DLC.  


But hey, everyone loves subscriptions (aka: pay for the game twice) and DLC packs pushed out before core games are fixed right?

Anyway, a friend sent me this screenshot and apparently some of the Lord Of Ultima portals are still around.

Check it out...

https://www2.lordofultima.com/home

Maybe we can send a million hits on this page and give EA a hint that we'd like them to put it all back....

;-)