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I know there's plently of features considered unfinished, and items as well. however, allow me to be the contrast and pour my heart out...

I like, I like it a lot. The graphics are very good when it comes to animated characters and monsters. some items they have had great success redoing, and some not.
The UI is right up my alley. It has a very powerfull macro system which actually makes it much easier for me to survive when fighting monsters. It's all new yes, when you get the the hang of it, it will fall natural. Key word for the new UI is also unlimited hotbars with close to unlimited macro's. The crafting menu is simply amazing.

Conclusion is though, they should have not made it gold yet.
there are many bugs, and the developers know. They tell us it will take lots of time to fix it all. Considering how many expansions this game has, houses of all sized and shapes, more clothing then all other mmorpg's combined and the amount of functions/skills they have my deepest sympathy. From a game developers point of view, managing this must be close to a nightmare. I was quite amazed that they bothered to develop the game at all, imho. The first years of ultima might be considered the beta for all future mmorpg's in the customer size above 100k, and there must be a sea of programming issues they must overcome.

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