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Conceivably the first 3-D [[Sci-Fi]] [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]], '''''Anarchy Online''''' is likely noteworthy for being one of the first MMO's to be able to produce content on demand in the form of missions the players can pull and run through. Still alive |
Conceivably the first 3-D [[Sci-Fi]] [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]], '''''Anarchy Online''''' is likely noteworthy for being one of the first MMO's to be able to produce content on demand in the form of missions the players can pull and run through. Still alive decades after launch and 4 expansions, and set on the desert planet of Rubi-Ka, where 2 factions fight for control of the planet and its resources. |
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That's the short tagline, the longer story is that [[Anarchy Online]] is a game that has managed a few firsts from when it was launched in 2001. The first game to have 'on demand' content (we'd call it instancing these days), the first MMORPG that allows for control of more than one pet by the respective [[An Adventurer Is You|Petmaster]] classes, the <s>first</s> [[Asheron's Call|second]] to step away from the traditional mold of what skills any given class is allowed to use: You have access to every skill, your only limit being skill points allocated upon leveling up. Also suspected to be the first game to survive the launch, notorious for the numerous bugs that abounded at the time. |
That's the short tagline, the longer story is that [[Anarchy Online]] is a game that has managed a few firsts from when it was launched in 2001. The first game to have 'on demand' content (we'd call it instancing these days), the first MMORPG that allows for control of more than one pet by the respective [[An Adventurer Is You|Petmaster]] classes, the <s>first</s> [[Asheron's Call|second]] to step away from the traditional mold of what skills any given class is allowed to use: You have access to every skill, your only limit being skill points allocated upon leveling up. Also suspected to be the first game to survive the launch, notorious for the numerous bugs that abounded at the time. |
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Survived and thrived, apparently. Two booster packs (Notum Wars and Legacy of the Xan) and three expansions (Shadowlands, Alien Invasion, Lost Eden, thought to be [[Vaporware]]) later, despite cries from the trolls that the game is dead, lo, it lives and breathes still. |
Survived and thrived, apparently. Two booster packs (Notum Wars and Legacy of the Xan) and three expansions (Shadowlands, Alien Invasion, Lost Eden, thought to be [[Vaporware]]) later, despite cries from the trolls that the game is dead, lo, it lives and breathes still. |
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The game is developed by the [[Norway|Norwegian]] studio [https://www.funcom.com/ Funcom]. |
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