i've played UO for years and have been waiting for this. WoW (which isn't really new now, been around for 10 yrs) wasn't as exciting and i didn't play it at all. i really hope those guys will deliver, but i'm skeptical.

skill based and complex games end up being a niche, but a mmo needs a lot of people. UO was very complex and allowed so much griefing, only some tryhards lasted.
not having authoritative servers might end up splitting the already small player pool.

hoping some UO oldschoolers will pop up and bulid a few decent shards looks super suspicious to me. If the playerbase is small, there will be a lot of pressure on the shard admins to deliver new content, because there won't be enough players to generate it on their own. I've seen this happen again and again and it never ends too well.

it looks like they are just riding the UO hype train. I expect to see some diablo/wow/random pve shards
and grind and nothing interesting.

also adding things all the time without causing insane inflation or imbalance in pvp seems close to impossible.

i just hope i'm wrong.