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Origin Systems

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Richard Garriott's Ultima house — 'We Create Worlds' — and the studio where the graphical MMORPG was effectively invented: Ultima Online (1997) proved a persistent world could hold hundreds of thousands of subscribers. EA acquired Origin in 1992 and closed the studio in 2004; Ultima Online outlived it.

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Origin Systems games that are sunset, cancelled, or outside the curated catalog — an honest studio page includes the worlds that closed.