well not all true. the shard i was playing on (others did too) is ran and the server runs pretty smooth. the only thing that was annoying was the server saving (takes about 10 seconds of pausing and its not very often) and the server has been up and running for quite some time now. UO Hybrid. I dont play it myself but i did and it was a lot of fun pvp. but they have a few things that are gay. they got the stun mages, alchy mages, and heal mages. not just sword/fencing/maces mages.
but the ping times were fine, its a west coast server.