A short news update on the Ultima Online website announces that the game has been added to Steam Greenlight; you can go and vote whether the game should be made available in the Steam catalogue.

(The other game that transferred from Mythic to Broadsword Online Games, Dark Age of Camelot, is also on Greenlight.)

I think it’s time to haul out the Veggies again:

It’s not entirely clear what Broadsword’s angle is here…is this just an attempt to expand the audience of both games? Does a move toward Steam signal a break from EA’s Origin storefront? Will the games — or time codes and assorted bits of content for them, at least — be available via both storefronts? Will one or both games be moving to a free-to-play model?

And what about UO’s dual-client support? One can’t see Steam allowing Broadsword to get away with offering two separate UO game clients for download; are the days of the Classic Client numbered?

Steam does offer a few advantages: a cheaper maintenance and update pipeline, anti-cheating technology, and a lot of visibility. Coupled with an artwork update (which has been planned for a while now) and an overhauled UI, it could be something…and would furnish Broadsword with an additional revenue stream.