Reddit user Negative-Squirrel81 noticed the same thing I did in the recent news that the Ultima games had been added to Steam: whereas GOG had previously offered Ultima 4 as a free download (which was a whole drama in and of itself), it would seem to be the case that within the last week or so they have made it a paid product instead (aligning its price with what you’d pay for it via either the EA App or Steam).

The games have been unbundled and now they’re selling them all individually for $4.99 to match Steam pricing. It’s going to be far harder to recommend people play the Sosaria trilogy at all, and honestly Ultima IV & V were easier to recommend with VI bundled in as a more modern game.

Thankfully, both Savage Empire and Martian Dreams are still available as freebies on GOG, but the rest of what Squirrel81 reports above is true; the mainline Ultima titles are now available as standalone purchases rather than as bundles, and the era of free copies of Ultima 4 has come to an end.

Well…except for the copy at Contrapuntal Dragon’s site, of course. You can always grab it there.