How is your life now versus what you thought it would be when you first started playing UO?

InLor

What did you dream of? And how did it turn out?

keven2002

I started playing UO just as any other new game; not really expecting I'd still be playing a quarter century later. 

When I started things it was mainly exploring new templates / content / etc. I started as a mage then made a warrior because reagents became costly (especially when losing them)...from there I thought I'd need a blacksmith/tailor to craft/repair things so I built a few crafter/mule toons. I think the "dream" of most new people to UO is to own a house somewhere and that was no different for me. I would stack away gold until I eventually got my first 8x8 then grew from there as I became better and acquired more gold. My dream was to be able to play end game type content (and be good at it lol).

Today my game play is much different, but I still have fun. I have most skills/templates available to me through training/soulstones and have explored just about all existing content. I now can do most end game content (and have) and have a large keep by the water on the most populated shard which is what I wanted. One change that I did not see happening from 25+ years ago was now I no longer PvP at all (that's primarily what I did back then). There are times I miss it, but then I see the non-stop trash talk between PvPers in GenChat and the desire to PvP again fades lol.

Generally speaking, I like how things turned out for me with my time in UO and aside from the skills/gold that I've acquired while playing, I often am hit with some nostalgia when I am running around Britain or an OG dungeon that catapults me back to my early days in UO of either being chased by a red or working a skill. 

Long story short, I couldn't have dreamed how things have turned out for me in UO but I do like the way things have turned out.

Victim_Of_Siege

Lokea