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| Ultima Online: High Seas | |
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| Developer(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release | October 12, 2010 |
| Genre(s) | MMORPG |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Ultima Online: High Seas is the first booster pack for the 1997 MMORPG Ultima Online .
Ultima Online: High Seas, was announced during a UO Town Hall Meeting held on August 28, 2010 at EA Mythic/Bioware's division headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. It was introduced with the title Adventures on the High Seas but later trimmed to just "High Seas".
Ultima Online (UO) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released on September 24, 1997 by Origin Systems.
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