Ultima Online Character Names Are Getting Shorter Alongside Krampus’s Return

Ultima Online will be imposing a character limit on all character names in the grandfather of all MMORPG’s next update so don’t be shocked if you suddenly find your Ninja Paladin’s name changed to Percy Mearson.

The limit will be set at just 16 characters, and as you can see from the cleverly thought up example above it isn’t very long. Characters who’ve been given titles and extremely long family names by their owners will likely be the most affected by the new naming policy.

Developer Broadsword Entertainment has yet to clarify whether affected characters will be able to change their name for free, or if they’ll be stuck with whatever name the system, or God forbid, the developers come up with. Refer to the example above.

The next game update will also feature the return of Krampus and the annual holiday events along with the addition of IP restrictions to prevent free-to-play exploits. The update is expected to hit the live servers sometime this week.