One of the main criticisms of Endless Journey, the recently-launched free-to-play experience for Ultima Online, has been how it handles in-game bank accounts (especially for returning players). Indeed, the use of the term “handled” is a bit generous, since it has been the case thus far that Endless Journey players have not been permitted to access their bank accounts at all.

That, however, seems to be about to change, at least according to some recent updates from Broadsword Online Games:

We would like to update you on storage options that will become available for Endless Journey accounts. All Endless Journey accounts will have access to their bank box providing a reduced amount of secure storage. Former Veteran accounts that return as Endless Journey accounts that have more items than the reduced limit allows will be able to view the contents of the bank, but will not be able to remove any items at this time. We are working on ways to provide access to these items and will update you as these options become available. We hope to have these changes live on Test Center sometime next week, and deployed World Wide as soon as testing permits. Remember you can gain access to all the items in your bank by subscribing at any time.

Further details on the scope of this limited bank access can be found in a second update:

As stated last week we will be publishing Endless Journey limited bank box storage today 4/16/2018 by approx 3 pm ET. All Endless Journey accounts will receive a base amount of 20 items ( bank expansions can increase the max item count to 28). Any account over the max limit will be able to view their full banks but will not be able to remove any items at this time. In the near future we will be adding the ability to remove items from the bank that are over the set max limit.

Additionally, to celebrate the Town Cryer feature that Ultima Online features, a new piece of lore fiction has been released.