More UWO Retrospectives

From CorpNews comes an enlightening interview with Bob Roland, Community Coordinator at Origin Systems Inc. which goes into detailed hypotheses about the demise of that goliath of an MMORPG Ultima Worlds Online: Origin. Though the conclusion he reaches is not very definitive, it does lend some insight into the unsuspecting nature of at least some of the OSI team that their game was getting canceled. A few words from Mr. Roland:

It’s not like EA woke up one morning and said, “let’s %@*! Origin.” It’s a big mistake with anything to assume that those who you disagree with are either stupid or malicious. Odds are, the other person had a damn good reason in their mind for doing what they did. I’m sure if you’re an exec at EA you had a motive that made perfect sense to you at the time.

That’s why I’m not too bitter. These things happen.