Anarchy Online - Free to Play

[Hathe]

I'm back to a normal schedule now. Everyone still giving this game a shot? I may have a few more friends joining the crew as well.

[Hathe]

Anyone? I'm still playing nightly. Message me on "Hathes" if you want to group up!

[Zodiac]

Canceled my account when AoC came out, sorry mate.

[Hathe]

I have no idea if anyone is still interested in this game besides Suineg, but you can re-activate your account for 30 days for free before July 4th! I still dick around when I have free time. If anyone still wants to get together at a set time nightly, I'm all for it.

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[Sealody]

Didnt they give out free lifetime accounts? I know a long time ago they did. Trial accounts that never expired. I gave the game a try back then and couldn't figure anything out. One of my friends actually was wondering if his free account was still active. He downloaded and installed it 3 or 4 days ago and was able to log in. I assume whatever account I had then would still work if so.

[Hathe]

Yep, regular accounts are free. The expansions cost money, as well as a monthly fee. I believe the first expansion (Shadowlands) is only $5 a month.

[Sky]

hah - this thread kinda cracks me up. I played this game for a few years seriously. Beat most of what there was to beat and really had some fun times.

Anyone who played when the game wasn't free remember The Council / Tranquility / Midnight Reveries? Acambot? haha.. good times.. Lots of people didn't like how my guild played, but we got shit done and had a lot of fun.

[Elsebet]

Originally Posted by Sky

Anyone who played when the game wasn't free remember The Council / Tranquility / Midnight Reveries? Acambot? haha.. good times.. Lots of people didn't like how my guild played, but we got shit done and had a lot of fun.

I remember them but I played Clan, and was in Synergy Factor for awhile. MR used to have a picture on their front page with the entire guild decked out in Azure, I always thought that was a cool image back then. MR to me seemed like a smaller but exteremely tight-knit and well organized guild. SF was huge. In fact just before Arion broke up we were doing raids with the bare minimum of healing and we had to time CH's with nail-biting precision. In SF raids I probably could have gone AFK with all the other doctors present. Totally different experience.

[Ramp]

Oh definitely remember acambot and blowing it up

Legion Factor Good times, a long long time ago.

[Sky]

Originally Posted by Elsebet

I remember them but I played Clan, and was in Synergy Factor for awhile. MR used to have a picture on their front page with the entire guild decked out in Azure, I always thought that was a cool image back then. MR to me seemed like a smaller but exteremely tight-knit and well organized guild. SF was huge. In fact just before Arion broke up we were doing raids with the bare minimum of healing and we had to time CH's with nail-biting precision. In SF raids I probably could have gone AFK with all the other doctors present. Totally different experience.

It's a damn shame. I don't have any of my old screenshots left from back then. I don't even think I have any of the code from the bots that I wrote. I spent a whole lot of time on all that crap. Hell, I learned perl just to write acambot. I really miss being a college student and not working or doing anything other than gaming for 4 months out of the year.

Tight-knit... yep. I used to play 2-3 chars at a time at raids cause we didn't have that many people in the guild and it was easy enough to do. Lots of good laughs and hilarity from those times!