When did you start playing UO? How long have you been playing?

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• Petra_Fyde Posts: 1,451

  May 8

  I started playing October 2000 with a character on my younger son's account. My husband had a character on my older son's account until December 2000 when we got our own account shared between us. I've been here ever since. I'll probably be here until either UO dies or I do. Not taking any bets on which happens first.
• Pawain Posts: 9,938

  May 8

  I started at the average computer gamers age at that time which was 35.

  Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
• Noname_2022 Posts: 9

  May 8

  January of 2000. I was 32years old at the time...
• Lord_Frodo Posts: 2,421

  May 8

  Main #1 6/10/98  312 months
  Main #2 10/6/01  270 months
  44 years old, son got me hooked
• Skett Posts: 1,474

  May 8

  A friend of mine showed me uo in mid/ late 98
  

  I was a nation wide superintendent at the time and I was build 2 outlet centers in El Paso Texas bored in a hotel room so I gave it a try.
  

  I later got my own account in 3/99 and a second in 9/99 and Ive been addicted/ hooked ever since. I did give away my oldest account and cancelled the other for a few years while I was in the army and then re-subed shortly after . my oldest accounts are only 240 and 238 months ;( 

  I was able to recover my 9/99 account its only 172 months.  
  

  
  
• TimSt Posts: 1,864

  May 8 edited May 8

  I started playing UO soon after it came out but let my account laps but then I took interest in the game again and have had an active account for almost 23 years.  But I began my Ultima journey with Ultima 1 back in 1983 in my senior year at high school.
  
• Arnold7 Posts: 1,402

  May 8

  I started playing around Halloween five years ago with a EJ account when I was in my seventies.  I had been reading about UO for probably over 20 years, but the two week trial period, the subscription fee, and some of the rules players had to abide by in the early days just turned me off.  But I had played the UO standalone games and had really liked those.
  
  A few years after I retired, I finally took the plunge and got an EJ account.  I was pleasantly amazed to find other players my age playing the game.  Never thought I would be playing with other adults, much less players near my age.  It also surprised me how little in game help the game provided.  
  
  

  Was really at a turning point deciding whether to stay or go after a few months.  Having to stop doing whatever I was doing so I could take my horse to a veterinarian numerous times every night to get it raised was really starting to frustrate me.  Then while in the New Haven mine I met a player that provided me with some good advice and actually gave me an ethereal horse.  Could not believe she gave me that especially when I found out what they sold for.  But, it made all the difference.  I subscribed about a month or two later.  Never really saw her again.  Regretted that I never got to tell her how much of a difference the horse had made for me.
  
• Victim_Of_Siege Posts: 2,092

  May 8

  

  A Goblin, a Gargoyle, and a Drow walk into a bar . . .
  
  Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
  
  
• Pawain Posts: 9,938

  May 8

  Victim_Of_Siege said:

  

  Mothers maiden name Amidala?

  Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
• Victim_Of_Siege Posts: 2,092

  May 8

  Pawain said:

  Victim_Of_Siege said:

  

  Mothers maiden name Amidala?

  Sartha
  

  A Goblin, a Gargoyle, and a Drow walk into a bar . . .
  
  Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
  
  
• Skett Posts: 1,474

  May 8

  ya im think a password reset is in order
• Victim_Of_Siege Posts: 2,092

  May 9 edited May 9

  Skett said:

  ya im think a password reset is in order

  You mean VaderRulez123 isn't secure??

  A Goblin, a Gargoyle, and a Drow walk into a bar . . .
  
  Never be afraid to challenge the status quo
  
  
• Skett Posts: 1,474

  May 9

  
• Nyre Posts: 49

  May 9

  I started when I was 24  and quit  when I was thirty   Came back when I was 40 years old and still playing today.  Even though I am starting to feel burnt out right now.
  
• Acid_Rain Posts: 279

  May 9

  Started playing UO when I was old enuff 2 kno better but young enuff 2 do it anyway...

  
• SirBolo Posts: 13

  May 10

  I started playing in 1998 when I was 21. UO has been with me for more than half of my life now...
• JackFlashUk Posts: 994

  May 10 edited May 10

  It was around 1999/2000
  
  was working on the first Harry Potter film, I am a fire fighter and was working on my days off and was chatting to a off duty ambulance tech, he described the game in such detail I started playing almost immediately 
  
  sadly, I never saw him again 
  
  I played solo on Blackthorns Revenge, upgraded to AoS to get an house until SE came out, became an idocer after meeting the guild leader of ACG guild. Sold goods to Europa shop owners then was introduced to WoY guild when I bought a house in Homare Jima and have played with them ever since
  
  Quit twice, and when I came back they had moved shard, now I have 3 accts with fully trained chars on 3 shards with 3 properties 
  
  as stated in another thread. Stygian Abyss and High Seas I am loving right now 
  
  10 months away from them damn shard shields 
• Ben Posts: 255

  May 13

  I began our account so that my daughters could play sometime in late 2000. I think I created my first character on that account in 2001. I was 41 at the time. I do not think I started playing much on it regularly until they grew up and went on to college a few years later. I closed the account for a few years after 2012, and only started it up again in late 2019. I have been a lot more interested in the nuances of the game this time around.