Ultima Online's Most Infamous Murder

[@seveneyedlamb]

I used to role play a muscular, shirtless thief I dubbed "Fabio" and would run around Ultima Online pick pocketing people while repeatedly spamming "I can't believe it's not butter" (because Fabio was on those commercials at the time.) I would be hunted down regularly for being so annoying. Great times.

[@Dubble_Bubble40]

Did you play in ATL, by chance?

[@JustAnOldStone]

Rogue main here. One of my favorite things to do was use Incognito to change my appearance, then dress like a traveling adventurer. >Fingers McGee is now suddenly Reebdoog. > "Hail and well met, Traveler, I'm trying to reach Moonglow, can you assist me?" > "Lead on! Payment will be given upon arrival to our destination." > *You notice Reebdoog snooping around in your backpack!*

[@seveneyedlamb]

devious! lol@@JustAnOldStone

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

I used to like to PVP with a thief. Disarm them and steal their weapon and do the hide game. Great times, so many memories of this game I wish I could have again.

[@lefthookouchmcarm4520]

I used to disarm steal at bucs den gate all the time. Used to steal blessed items every so often when "steal random" wouldn't skip blessed items 😂

[@krisreddish3066]

I was there. Just makes me feel super old now. I was also in my 20s, in 1-17th Arctic Light Inf. I turn 50 next year.

[@Nupetiet]

you witnessed your generations's 9/11

[@duyinghao]

Cool

[@fifteenbyfive]

I came in three months later and players were talking about this like it was already legend. I have to say in hindsight that this was nice. It gave the game a backstory of sorts. It gave the feeling that big things beyond our control happened before most of us were even in the world yet, so the world felt a little more real, a little more important, a little more beyond any of our reaches to save or spoil.

[@shadowpoet4398]

Yeah I remember seeing the name "Lord British" when I first loaded up a private server using the accidentally (hehe) released source code with one of its version releases. And I was also like "why tf does he have a squiggly turd for an emblem?" All the names of places, the books written by players and published automatically where they'll randomly pop up in bookstores and book shelves. Thieving empty buildings was kinda fun, but the first time I soloed the Humility shrine and got that 50 yard wide circle of gold I knew I didn't care how goofy it looked, this paper doll simulator was frikkin AMAZING.

[@Drawfill]

I've actually spoken with richard garriot once (He came with blacktorne on one of the many free 2 play servers just to say whats up to the people that still play the game, they even re-enacted the whole scene... along with the incredible lag and the flame wall killing lord british). It was SO cool to be "part" of that whole thing. Thanks for making me nostalgic lmao

[@Drawfill]

@@Misc-s5n Im telling the truth, it was on UO Forever.... but don't believe me, I don't really care lol.

[@rojofish504]

@@Misc-s5nHe visited multiple free shards I use to play on. 🤷🏻‍♂️ probably happened bro

[@virgilsweeney1004]

Gotcha beat. Had a personal one on one interview with the king himself as well as Lord Blackthorn who was kind enough to give me a renamed bottle called "A bottle of Spirits". Seemed like those rares sold for a ton back in those days and I had many! First time I met the king he was standing outside his castle and I thought it was some hacker so I started calling him an "F-ing hacker till a bunch of seers showed up and jailed me and told me it really was Richard. The interview was awsome though! The castle was closed up back in those days so I got a personal tour. Still remember him talking about a picture in one of the bedrooms saying it was his mother... or was it his wife... Anyway. Some may remember me, some may not. I started the Ultima online Celt guild on Catskills shard and helped start up Crossroads of Britannia with my brother. Those memories will never die.

[@hoshi314]

I am here because i was intrigued after Naoki Yoshida, yes the lead for FF14 said he was there when Lord British was Assassinated in UO. Needless to say this is very interesting and what a good job you did for this video.

[@computergamingyesterday]

What...really? That's nuts.

[@RIP2UALL]

Damn, that's wild.

[@HorsesArePeople2]

What an interesting little story. I'm really digging these videos about old MMOs. Really takes me back to a much simpler time.

[@TyrJustice]

10:45 I'm surprised you know about mortal online lol. You should make a video on it

[@wedge55]

I remember hearing about this from friends who played UO at the time, but haven't thought about it for years!

[@jaybee9716]

I was there, 3000 years ago.

[@jamesback8024]

I was there, but i am not in the screenshot, as it was at the edge of my screen, lag had me kinda stuck. I was like "Wow, some ass just did WHAT?" and then....... DEMONS. I died, and took me a long time to get to my body because the lag, but i did, warped home and logged out because well, LAG.

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

Did your mom also need to use the phone?

[@frodofraggins]

My guess is t hat Garriott got all pissy about it as his ego was too massive not to.

[@mvrk4044]

I was there when this happened and happened to run into Richard at E3 during the Tabula Rasa development. He wasn't thrilled to talk about this at that time. IIRC the guy who killed him was named Rains or Rainz or something

[@davidvaughn7778]

Ultima Online still lives. I play on Outlands free server "shard" it is what I think Ultima should have turned into. Many complex systems really make your character progress past max skill level.

[@ProBreakers]

I remember trying to play this shortly after it first came out. It was laggy, spent most of my time trying to fish or something and having random people walk up and kill me and take all my stuff.

[@jerod5636]

I still can’t believe that I paid for the privilege of beta access. Got my disc in the mail, then promptly moved somewhere with no internet. Didnt get to play until shortly before T2A.

[@truesoulghost2777]

Damn. That sucks

[@Joe_Friday]

Hopefully you kept your disc. I bet it's worth a pretty penny.

[@OwlRaven13]

Great video! Appreciate walking down nostalgias MMO lane! Hoping the MMO genre gets a fresh rebirth sometime soon!

[@edwena-i7k]

much appreciation for documenting such an interesting, cool, and not well known part of gaming history ; that probably became a cautionary tale in the MMO culture.

[@Slawson_]

Im currently playing UO: Rennaissance and having a blast. Great, nostalgic video. Keep em coming!

[@Joe_Friday]

That's the expansion I started at in early 2000. How are you still only playing Renaissance? It's gone through multiple updates since then.

[@DeonGaming]

Probably just preference and nostalgia. Sometimes I play renaissance too because it was the version I played the most of.

[@derjansan9564]

This is currently subject on HackerNews, with the difference that it is claimed that Rainz escaped the scene of the crime.

[@Joe_Friday]

That's what I also heard.

[@erato1]

I remember when this happened and it made the game seem more realistic and fun. It actually got me into the game. PvP ganking drove me out though.

[@epitaph8704]

Nice! Was waiting for a new video of yours I actually never got to play Ultima Online, since I wasn't into MMO's at the time. I got into them recently but I guess I will never get to experience the old community on private servers.

[@nicknailer1749]

You missed the funnest the internet will ever be

[@epitaph8704]

@@nicknailer1749 Do the UO private servers capture the same feeling? I was thinking of checking some of them out.

[@Joe_Friday]

​@@epitaph8704 Did you ever find out?

[@epitaph8704]

@@Joe_Friday No. Everquest got me first

[@TheSevenJr86]

A lot of servers consist of the old players lol I started in 98 and have take many years long breaks. It isn't exactly the same feeling but I'm quite immersed again

[@Und34d_R]

I played UO at the time. I remember this. I also remember it as being the most fun I’ve ever had in an online game; and ever will.

[@brittislove]

I used to enjoy hiding in the caves, and watching stronger opponents get to low health on monsters.. as they were fighting, I would steal their reagants so they couldn't teleport away or fireball me. As they were now low on health from fighting monsters, I would attack them.. then they would keep trying to teleport away as I'm killing them. They die. I get so much loot I can't carry it, so I give it away to other people there. I did this for a few hours and at one point 10 people come to where I've been PK'ing ready to kill me. Uh oh. I didn't plan it, but I had given away so much loot and gear to other players that they came to my defense against these people. They asked me if I had been giving them items from players I killed, and of course I lied and said that the other guys were lying. Finally the battle between my team and theirr team begins. I of course instigated the fight and immediately ran off... ready to loot the battlefield. Good god, I just loved the chaos factor

[@ugraugra]

Nice video, finally i know more details about this famous murder :)

[@the9thinning1]

babe wake up, new Computer Gaming Yesterday

[@keskes1338]

The GM overreach was a pretty big hint as to what the lead dev would go on to do. He's essentially a con artist after the sh*t he pulled with Shroud of the Avatar.

[@LordMoebius]

What happened with shroud of the avatar

[@3verlong]

@@LordMoebiusidk all of it but it boils down to kickstarter scan

[@HM-rz8nv]

See, if i was in Richard's position, i would see a player killing me in an entirely unplanned and unscripted manner as a perfect opportunity to create lore for the game in a way that the community itself is witnessing, and go along with it.

[@jerodtereshka3908]

Its amazing how many people say they were there considering it was only like 50 people

[@HM-rz8nv]

a lot of the people who were there remembered the event and looked it up

[@CornPopsRazor]

If you weren't using exploits in UO you weren't playing.

[@lefthookouchmcarm4520]

I came across an exploit back in the late 90s where you could ed8t the z coors of tiles. I did it on the water. Ship could go under docks and unlock ropes if the boat mast touched then... I'd sell them for like 500k each 😂

[@nightshadehelis9821]

Online games in the late 90s really were something else. I remember playing an online shooter called "splatterball" on AOL for $1.99 a month (which I paid for using my mom's credit card, which I was also severely punished for). The game was almost unplayable using my 56k modem, but man, I still absolutely loved it.

[@computergamingyesterday]

Splatterball! I mention that in my Dark Age of Camelot video…it was made by Mythic Entertainment.

[@Noksivs]

I once pickpocket a lantern from a Councillor.

[@Joe_Friday]

Interesting. How were you able to do that? Did the counselor have any other interesting unique items in his pack? I had a retiring Seer make me a unique costume with her name on it and it as dyed Seer green, which was not a color one could dye themselves. I won the costume set at the Skara Brae Fairgrounds for answering a riddle. I can't remember her name but it said it was made by Seer () when you hovered the mouse over it.

[@Noksivs]

@@Joe_Friday Well, as far as I remember it, I just used the ability to see into his bag, and just stole it. I was surprised that it wasnt locked down in their bag. But it was just a regular lantern, nothing special about it... But it was special for me because of how I acquired it.

[@noamto]

8:35 at least have the courtesy to say that Origin stated that Rainz was banned only from the UO beta, not from the commercial release nor from any other future Origin game. And also that they disliked his use of an exploit to PK, not just because he was PKing.

[@Tmccreight25Gaming]

Someone needs to track down Rainz and get his side of the story.

[@trompeloeil1389]

So, I was one of the people actually involved in this and can tell you how it happened. I was in a guild called the "Ravens of Fate" and during the last day of beta LB was giving speeches. I was in minoc, and there was a huge crowd gathered. I started punching someone and calling guards, and then everyone started calling guards and this crashed the server. When the server restarted, the developer who played "Grimli" whose job it was to set LB's invulnerability flag, forgot to do that. One of my guildmates who went by the nickname "Rainz", stole a wall of fire scroll out of someone's backpack and cast wall of fire on the area where LB was standing. He thought he was immune so he ran back and forth in it mocking them for casting spells, and that caused him to die. One of the players looted his 'costume' from his corpse which was actually a hat (or hair), and ran around being LB, until the devs summoned a bunch of demons. That's the whole and true story.

[@ColdPotato]

I missed this. Fantastic story!

[@ded2thaworld963]

I wasn’t there but i remember it. I had to work that day and a friend told me what happened, always thought it was funny

[@cameronsmith3047]

We fucked up so we perma ban the player...yeah fuck that shit.

[@billcorr9450]

According to the guy who was banned, the guy (toon's name: Aquaman) griefed hundreds of other characters. I'm glad he was banned.

[@themightypotato3857]

this is absolutely amazing. I have no doubt this will be looked at as intensely as we look at normal human history today. this is kind of the equivalent of the murder of caesar. just in one of our virtual worlds and on a much smaller scale. but since there's no way around us becoming even more closely connected with technology and virtual worlds, this will forever be a story of our earliest steps in these realms. one day a child will go on a virtual reality museum trip with his family on a saturday afternoon and this little piece of human history will be represented there. just like the massive wars in eve online and many other stories being written right now, online.

[@Goblin_deez.]

This guy seems a little too knowledgable about this ‘Rainz’ character… 😒

[@nikushim6665]

"some say the crash had occurred days earlier, though the source of the information is alittle unclear." That statement already set off a red flag, as anyone who played that game beta and launch could tell you those servers crashed on a daily basis (generally multiple times a day). I would also take any statement given by garriott with a grain of salt and a ample amount of skepticism. The guy is kinda known for extreme exaggeration and pathological lying, as well as having the attention span of a gold fish. Reality was the account was a GM account, he simply just forgot to type the command when logging in.

[@Joe_Friday]

Were you a GM, Counselor or Seer?

[@bankfishingislife5484]

i wonder what exploits he could have done when basically mages could precast ride up on you instant hit you and take more then half your health cheese style even in the expansion then they could just do a 2nd cast and basically kill most anyone unless they knew how to heal good. i think its still the same to this day. so basically the game was still released with exploits basically. lol

[@Argroh]

funny enough, Yoshi-P was present for that event.

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

I remember reading about this in PC Gamer back in the day :D

[@MaxBlight]

I was just entering the castle when the assassination happened 😂😂😂, turned and left the moment the murder happened, expected something to happen. Too bad i didnt see it, but at least i can say i was technically there too lol

[@virgilsweeney1004]

My favorit person I ran into was a black guy with an afro that was pure white. His name was Q-Tip. Second person who made me laugh was someone named "Sir Comfrance". Good memories. Still remember raiding another server with everyone running around named "Sam" and spouting "I am Sam.", "Sam I am!".

[@WhatWouldVillainsDo]

I played lol for a while, started out as a miner -black smith eventually a swordsmen. Actually hit 5x grandmaster that was rather a feat at that time. GM healing was actually the hardest to achieve as instead of spending 100 gold in regs it only took a 2g bandage to rezz.

[@brittislove]

remember hauling ore all the way back to town? I was the guy that would be hiding near the smelt, ready to take the ore

[@ChristianCostaBatageloSC]

Great video 👏👏👏👏

[@shadowpoet4398]

I used to play a grandmaster blacksmith who was also a Paladin. His name was James Anderson, heavily armored, and riding a giant beetle named Shelly. It sucked being in Felucca seeing all those lvl1s hammering at the cave tunnel in Minoc just to see a douche patrol roll through like a shockwave, just killing everyone for no reason. ... Stick to Trammel lol

[@Boxeri]

Great video greetings from Finland!

[@Striker9]

Man I really hope Richard Garrity gets Ultima back! I would love to see him make a U.o. 2

[@thekittenfreakify]

He did and it fsiled. Shroud of the avatar.

[@cyberbrain232001]

I loved this game. But I always thought the developers went to far in the interactions.

[@HHRain]

After the ban Reinz made a new account i and his new name was Underwater Ape

[@kamerondonaldson5976]

best way to make it impossible to kill a character is to make it impossible to even attempt to attack that character.. potentially by making that character only mentioned in dialogue and never make an actual appearance.

[@TheSwiftFX]

Great video

[@albdamned577]

Oh how I miss Ultima Online.

[@SticksAandstonesBozo]

Why doesn’t this channel have more content ??? Someone help.

[@Satire-Gaming]

I remember when this happened, I was not there but my roommate was lol. The murderer was a total douche all the time. He constantly would hunt down and grief newbies in our clan and stuff. Even when we went to free shards, he was still around and being a jerk constantly.

[@Satire-Gaming]

He did not accept the ban and move on, he went to the free shards that are privately ran and kept being a douche for years lol.

[@Dnasty1]

Ultima Online is still the best mmo game i've played to date.

[@Dracomut]

I do miss this era of MMORPGs, but I think it was probably for the best the genre moved to what it is today. With what some gamers do today, I would hate to see the chaos that could happen if given too much freedom.

[@thekittenfreakify]

Todays mmo design is too boring.

[@paperboy856]

Everquest everquest

[@Vickolai]

You can tell he's reading something off screen which I'm assuming is the script 🙄 It's as if he's looking through me...

[@michaelwinsor3826]

I feel like banning the assassin was lame and a sign of a weak ego. Lord British god bested fair and square and shouldn't have been so offended

[@HolyRuby]

Lmao the murderer picture😅

[@pnnyws]

Damn this event almost same age as me

[@danieldoherty420]

I thought this would be the bartender story

[@MeldrickCz]

Ultima online did many things great but some of them very poor and Gariot could act as big baby many times.

[@Emanemoston]

T-Downs.

[@Goblin_deez.]

How do I watch this when all I see is your beautiful blue eyes?

[@zelpoc]

UO Outlands

[@FaithInHisBloodOrg]

This video was really funny to me, since I am familiar with UO.

[@edmanr2010]

The decision to make PVP an important part of high level loot and world bosses ended up with sleazy low life PK guild monopolies barring people who refused to join the guilds from great content that should have been enjoyed by everyone. The idea of having to join a guild of PK's to enjoy content is truly the most offensive thing I can ever recall in gaming. Thankfully I was able to enjoy the "Care bare content" As he slated it to be and built real friendships with people who were not in support of a join us or die motto.

[@rr-yes]

Boooohooo pk killed me…. Viadinho

[@edmanr2010]

Many PK's killed me so much so that I literally never got the rare loot from the world bosses they had large guilds Black Company being the most popular it was a large part of what ruined the new content for me@@rr-yes

[@mappyLS]

trammy

[@edmanr2010]

@@rr-yes It never bothered me to be killed it bothered me that PK Guilds Monopolized content in a game.

[@CalmDownJack]

i was there!

[@leandrusi4533]

This shits hilarious LOL

[@JustAnOldStone]

Dude are you serious? I call stolen Valor (not really lol but) it wasn't just by one guy, multiple people were in on the murder of lord british My entire guild "Graveyard Gang" was present and we griefed that event to hell and back (I was like 14 at the time, who *wasn't* an asshole during those years?)

[@anaximander66]

Many conspiracy theorists think that this was all a set up to test server lag. They needed a way to justify unleashing hell on a large group. First ever MMO false flag event. See Q drop #3501.

[@Nicolas-uu3jr]

until fallout 76 ::D

[@johnmoore14PTY]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bobsucks9647]

The way people looked at Lord British back in the day reminds me of how they look at Yoshi P now