Newsbrief: Electronic Arts has announced plans to shut down its mobile multiplayer RPG
Ultima Forever at the end of August.
The news comes courtesy of a brief
message posted to the company forums yesterday that marks the online-only game's servers for shutdown on August 29, 2014 and details how the game will change in its final month (in-app purchases for premium currency will be disabled, for example.)
No meaningful reason was given for the game's closure, though it's not totally surprising in light of the fact that EA
shut down developer Mythic Entertainment just a few months ago.
It's worth noting that this leaves the original
Ultima Online as the last EA-operated
Ultima game standing come September, since the publisher
shut down the free-to-play browser game
Lord of Ultima back in May.
