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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: esuna on December 16, 2004, 04:22:25 AM

Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: esuna on December 16, 2004, 04:22:25 AM: http://www.anarchy-online.com/free/ad_campaigns/freecampaign (http://www.anarchy-online.com/free/ad_campaigns/freecampaign)

AO are offering, for free, the client and a year's subscription to AO (Not including expansions) free of charge and all they require is that you sign up for an account before the 15th Jan, but that doesn't matter, as it's free. :)

Other conditions being that you'd have to pay for the expansions if you want them, it only lasts until 1/1/2006 and they reserve the right to terminate the thing at will, but who cares, it's still free. :D

So get downloading. The client's only 800mb, and it's free. :)

Did i mention it's free? :p
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: Anarki3x6 on December 16, 2004, 06:08:31 AM: whoooooooa. i am... so downloading this right now. ive tried to stay away from mmorpgs since theyre the games i get uber addicted to mostly >_> but winter break starts soon so :) /me downloads
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: lolfighter on December 16, 2004, 07:57:04 AM: Hmm, hmm. I tried a one week (or was it fourteen days?) free trial of AO once. What AO needs is a guide telling you where the fun's at.
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: Legionnaired on December 16, 2004, 08:21:49 AM: Downloading now, what the hell.

I hate bittorrent. 2 kbps.
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: sonic on December 16, 2004, 08:30:30 AM: May aswell give it a shot, not played it before :)
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: Geminosity on December 16, 2004, 10:01:51 AM: Does it still need your credit card number for your account? That's what stopped me dead in every other freebie they've run =P
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: rad4Christ on December 16, 2004, 10:14:17 AM: I just downloaded, and I told it no payment option, so no CC required. However, BT is TERRIBLY slow. If anyone has a way to host the file, go for it, or I'll host it once I get it.
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: Guest Bacon on December 16, 2004, 07:25:55 PM: Quote
Does it still need your credit card number for your account? That's what stopped me dead in every other freebie they've run =P
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no.
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: @gentOrange on December 16, 2004, 07:49:58 PM: I know you all want some of that sweet free AO. But now that I'm a much sought after comodity I must increase my rates. We're looking at $10 an hour now people, and I might not last that whole hour if you're good :D
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: A Boojum Snark on December 16, 2004, 08:21:18 PM: Well... I think I wasted my time downloading it, and can't figure a damn thing out, and the game is ugly :p
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: duherman on December 16, 2004, 08:27:46 PM: Looks intresting. I'll give it a try.
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: Malevolent on December 17, 2004, 04:21:10 AM: Quote
Well... I think I wasted my time downloading it, and can't figure a damn thing out, and the game is ugly :p
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Of course the game is ugly.
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: Guest Bacon on December 17, 2004, 07:22:35 AM: Quote
Hmm, hmm. I tried a one week (or was it fourteen days?) free trial of AO once. What AO needs is a guide telling you where the fun's at.
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so, any pointers for the nubs here?
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: lolfighter on December 18, 2004, 09:26:31 AM: Except that you'll have trouble finding the fun? Not really. I have a hard time remembering anything. It's been years, literally. Only thing I remember is that I played a monk or martial artist or something, and a friend of mine who played a marksman or shooter or something was jealous because I could deal more damage without weapons than he could with, and I didn't even have to worry about maintenance/upgrades. But those were the early levels, I guess it'd have evened out later on.
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: Anarki3x6 on December 19, 2004, 01:36:14 AM: hmm... i must'v played 30+ hours of AO over the past 2 days *rubs eyes* time to get some sleep tonight, graphics arent that bad, me and a friend made 2 hot chick characters that kick ass :) so its fun doin missions and killing stuff in general, nice mmorpg to waste more of my life on :)
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: SheenaYanai on December 19, 2004, 05:57:04 AM: i dont know..its not a really userfriendly game.. the interface is not very intuitive , the netcode is ugly.... you dont really get any feedback in fights...you just stare at your stupid health meter, and the one of the enemy... its really more like a pen and paper game with visualisation, not really a beauty,but handy. its not a nubfriendly game.
(i think ive asked 200 times how to change the zones ingame... i was in zone 200something, and someone ive wanted to met was on the same place than me, just in zone 900 something. we were not able to see each other) i dont really see why this game is hyped like that...sure, it got lots of features... but this features kinda squish you under their pure mass. i dont feeld good playing AO ,i got more work to do with my interface, and shortcuts, than with the game itself. uhm.. ive liked neocron kinda more.. it wasnt that feature heavy. i mean..it have lots of features..but they dont try to crush you like in ao.the interface is more intuitive , and even nubs understand the game mechanic fast.

neocron performs at the moment its final, and maybe last suicide attempt. lots of long time players already went off, because of still existing bugs, and still not working new features. this game was so nice to play. but now its puplihers diggin its grave... no fair
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: Fewlio on December 22, 2004, 01:35:56 AM: Well, I used to pay for AO when it was new, I dislike how they killed off the old start, it was much easier to figure out where to go. Once you get off the newbie island they dump you in the middle of nowhere so it gets frustrating real fast. I had a mission that was to the next zone over but I didn't know where it was until I ran around for two hours and found some random NPC who told me where nearby cities were, as in, go southeast.

The whole game is based on missions. If you need a specific item, generate missions until you find it. If you need some extra cash, do a mission. Need some quick XP, do a mission. Want to explore, do a mission. The game is nothing but missions.

The name is also "Anarchy Online" although there was no real PVP system in place until the second expansion was released and there was/is forms of government for multiple factions. Although in a game like this you wouldn't see any difference between having a government and not having one due to the lack of anything.

Sticking to what is suggested for your specific class/race doesn't work out too well either, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

The crafting is more of "guess and check" until you go download a program that takes all the steps out of crafting for you besides getting credits and buying the components.

The game is still laggy, much like it was years ago.

I have to agree with sheena on Neocron being a better game, although Neocron was unstable and buggy as hell, at least it had a game underneath the rotting pile of poo. Anarchy Online doesn't really have anything, every improvement they make just makes the game worse which also doesn't make any sense.

I would rather go play EQ. I think I am going to uninstall this piece now.
Title: Anarchy Online Free for a year
Post by: Narfwak on December 23, 2004, 02:12:49 PM: Meh, I already paid for WoW and PS this month.