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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 after ''15'' years and 4 expansions, and set on the desert planet of Rubi-Ka, where 2 factions fight for control of the planet and its resources.
 
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.
 
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 Clinique Plastique, where you pay 25 million credits to change your character's features, height and build.
** IP reset points, costing 250 million, with the release of Lost Eden.
* [[Nanomachines]]: Pretty much everything under the twin suns of Rubi-Ka has something to do with nanomachines—eithernanomachines -- either built by, maintained by, destroyed by or recycled by nanomachines. Nano Programs are used to tell the nano bots in the air around you what to do and how to do it. Much of the flavor text on many items also goes into how nanomachines are applied to the item in question.
* [[PVP-Balanced]]: While in the beginning this was the case, through 2 expansions pvp has been very unbalanced, only recently becoming rebalanced (to the woe of the former lovechildren) with Lost Eden.
* [[Product Placement]]: One of the ingame bars plays music recently released in [[Real Life]]. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the fact that although the game takes place over 27,000 years in the future, Rubi-Ka is on the far side of the galaxy from Earth—overEarth -- over 90,000 light-years away; thus allowing the presence of the music to be [[Handwaved]] as having been found in "broadcast signals still echoing in the deepest regions of space".
* [[Random Drops]]
** [[Rare Random Drop]]: Some of the lowest drop rates in game history.
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