Via Eurogamer: “…within months of CCP springing into existence, Origin and EA released Richard Garriott’s Ultima Online. For [Thorolfur Beck], fearing they had been beaten to the market, it seemed like the end of the journey before it had managed to get going, but quickly he realised the latest Ultima was less a threat and instead a validation of what they were attempting to create. “It was a reassuring proof of concept,” he says.”