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• • Anarchy Online, Shadow of it former self

  • Yeah, I tried playing again this past summer since having left back during what some would call AO's heyday in 2003. It was depressing to see tumbleweeds blowing through what used to be heavily trafficked areas. My org, while still technically in existence, never had anyone on, where 40+ players being on at  any given time used to be a common thing (nowadays on RK1, it seems as if the server total isn't much more than that).

    It's sad, but that's the way things go. All good things must come to an end and all that. While AO might continue to limp along for who knows how long, it will never again be what it was.

  • Posted: 12/01/08 11:10 AM
    Anarchy Online
• • By christmas fc will be no more.

  • With the worldwide financial troubles sapping people's disposable income, what will be the first spending luxuries folks drop? I would say video games that cost a monthly fee to play will be among the first to go. World of Warcraft and maybe a couple of others will be the only ones to survive if things get much worse. Tiny companies like FC that are struggling as it is won't have a prayer.

  • Posted: 11/18/08 2:59 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Anarchy Online new engine

  • I find the animation to be almost as big a turn off as the graphics. Especially when you stand in one place and move in a circle, spinning around without moving your feet and legs like you were standing on a turntable.

  • Posted: 10/07/08 1:23 PM
    Anarchy Online
• • When is the grahpics update going live?

  • Originally posted by Spiritof55
    

    For those of you that care about eye candy and refuse to play a game that looks outdated or waiting for a graphical update to sub again you're as shallow as your excuse is stupid.   

     

    Your thinking is quite shallow. AO's surivival depends on getting and retaining new subscribers. Not only does AO look like crap to anyone who has grown used to modern graphics, it also runs like crap on modern hardware.

    As someone who has played AO for years and can fully appreciate the depth of the gameplay, I can't say I blame new players who bail on the game soon after logging in for the first time. I know that when I came back after being away for two years, it was almost jarring how awful the game looked compared to newer titles. It also ran worse on my newer PC than the old one I initially played it on.

    You can't expect folks to put up with the ugliness and bad performance when there are so many other games out there that look and run better. I certainly don't consider that shallow.

  • Posted: 9/06/08 1:27 PM
    Anarchy Online