How on earth can this game still be up and running, maintained and alive? This is a much more interesting question than repeated declarations of its death.

There had been one or two MMos before, but UO was the first one that actually worked to some degree. When UO was new, ability to chat to somebody living in a different country was still something normal consumers were just gradually discovering. We speaking of a game that was developed back when consumer level internet, modems, ability to play multiplayer games over net seemed like a fresh, exciting thing for most. Has happened few times too many for my taste, so I figured I'd go pay this old flame of mine a visit and tell people a bit of this dead game and how the corpse twitches! Over the last few days, I've seen people quite matter of factly stating what a dead game Broadsword's Ultima Online is.