How Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology | War Stories | Ars Technica

Why it was recommended

Instead the players indiscriminately killed both the carnivores and the herbivores, because the players were human.

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What it covers

An Ars Technica War Stories episode in which Richard Garriott and Starr Long describe Ultima Online's planned virtual ecology and how players wrecked it. Players slaughtered. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

Ars Technica

Length

7 min 24 sec

Year

2017

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