Ultima Forever

Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, also known as Ultima Forever or Ultima4Ever is a free-to-play, cross-platform, online, action role-playing game being developed by BioWare Mythic and to be published by Electronic Arts. It was formally announced at the San Diego Comic-Con International on July 12, 2012 and it will be available later in 2012 for the PC and iPad.

Ultima Forever is a sequel to Ultima IV, as well as a reboot of the rest of the game series. It is set 21 years after the events of Ultima IV. Lady British, Lord British's daughter, is the ruling monarch of Britannia in this game.

Gameplay
The game will eventually feature 8 classes to choose from, but only the Fighter and the Mage will be available when the game launches. The other six classes will be rolled out in the months following the game's launch, starting by the Druid.

Development
An Ultima Forever website went live in June 2, 2011. The website did not mention anything about the upcoming game, focusing instead on revisiting the games and world of the Ultima series. As of June 5, 2011, the site offered a free download of Ultima IV, as well as a link to the two-week free trial of Ultima Online. This site was believed to be related to a secret project being developed by BioWare Mythic, possibly involving a port of Ultima 4. Several factors, including a rant by an ex-employee and tweets by the BioWare Mythic Creative Director, all supported this to be the case.

When the game was announced on July 12, the website's contents were replaced with an image announcing the Ultima Forever game. This image contained a link to sign up for an upcoming closed beta of the game. Two more images were also published: concept art of the gypsy, and Ultima Forever's map of Britannia. The former website was then moved to a separate subdomain.

Trivia

 * The UltimaForever Twitter account went online June 1, 2011 with its first tweet, the famous virtue question from Ultima 4: “Art thou humble?”