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The Forever Games (Ep. 4)

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Ultima Online and the Emergent Behaviors and Exploits That Arose Inside of It

The emergent behaviors and the exploits that arose inside of Ultima Online were absolutely incredible right I mean you had one point a bunch of people role-playing as carpenters in the world with the skills of carpenters laid a totally airtight siege to a major city. The assassination of Lord British which was a very important character in the Ultima single player series was a really important symbolic event in the history of online gaming. It became kind of a cause celebrity in the video game business it was because it was so weird and so amusing that the developer of the game was assassinated in his own creation but again I think it was a brief glimpse of the future.

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