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Dec 21, 2017 · 20m
When creating Ultima Online, Richard Garriott had grand dreams. Richard and Starr Long planned on implementing a virtual ecology into their massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It was an ambitious system, one that would have cows that graze and predators that eat herbivores. However, once the game went live a small problem had arisen...
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War Stories Season 1 premiered on December 21, 2017.
War Stories Season 1 has 1 episode.
The season opens with Season 1 Episode 1, "How Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology". It aired on December 21, 2017.
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