anarchy online

Official Site: Anarchy Online
Studio: Funcom
Launch Date: June 27, 2001
Genre: Sci-fi Sandbox
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

So secretive!

Choose My Adventure: The truth is out there about Secret World Legends

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Oh, Secret World Legends. What are you? Are you a Frankensteinian change forced upon an existing beloved game that sucked some of the life...
Community organization is painful.

Halloween events across the MMORPG verse, 2017 edition

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Hey, you. Yeah, you, dude leeching candy from the bucket you bought "for the neighborhood kids." And you, lady still trying to decide between...

Massively Overthinking: Is open-world housing really a ‘failed’ MMORPG experiment?

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Massively OP's Justin Olivetti has a provocative article on his personal gaming blog, Bio Break, this week on MMORPG housing. "I once again wonder why...

SMITE 4.1.9 Departure to the Afterlife brings back the Halloween arena and new skins

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Halloween is taking over SMITE this month -- and every other MMO and MOBA, of course, but that's OK because it's the best holiday...
Into the unknown.

Perfect Ten: MMOs obsessed with the floating islands trope

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One of the fun things about this hobby is that certain tropes repeat themselves constantly. And they're usually weirdly specific tropes, too. Poop quests,...
Into the unknown.

Perfect Ten: MMOs in limbo

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The one thing that I thought we could all count on forever was that the MMO life cycle was pretty easy to understand. A...

Anarchy Online celebrates its sweet sixteen

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Maintenance mode or no, Anarchy Online is going to celebrate its birthday in style. The MMO, which launched back in 2001, turns 16 this...

Funcom is working on a ‘tactical turn-based strategy’ game

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Funcom is apparently keeping itself busy with a new partnership and game. The company's investor relations site has a brief press release with the...

The MMOs of the Steam Summer 2017 Sale

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After some ups and downs this afternoon -- everybody loves the "try again later" message, right? -- Valve's summer Steam sale is finally underway...

Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!

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After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...
Stop asking me what is best in life, I answered that.

Funcom Q1 2017 financials: ‘Most profitable quarter ever,’ Secret World Legends delayed on Steam

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Conan Exiles performed beautifully for Funcom, at least during the first part of this year, the company's investor report for the first quarter revealed...

Perfect Ten: Exploring MMORPGs from the far corners of the world

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Have you ever noticed that while there's an entire world out there, most all of the MMORPGs we discuss and play tend to either...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has seen the most improved graphics over the years?

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In each of our articles about Black Desert's upcoming graphics upgrade, there have been a slew of comments about how the game doesn't really...

Massively Overthinking: It’s the end of The Secret World as we know it

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I think I can speak for most of our staff in saying that in November when Funcom first promised a "major upgrade to both retention and...

Perfect Ten: Memories of an Anarchy Online noob

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My initial foray into MMORPGs was, to put it nicely, quite ungraceful. I wasn't even aware that they were a thing until about the...

Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #24-19

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What are the best and most popular MMO theme songs of all time? A couple of weeks ago I posed this question to the...
I'm cutting it down.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 107: Dark Knight rises

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, WoW, Torment, Black Desert, Age of Conan and Anarchy Online maintenance mode, WildStar, Darkfall Rise of Agon, Path of Exile, and Revelation Online's soft launch, with mailbag questions on console vs. PC MMO fans and dealing with immersion-breaking mounts.
That's not the problem.

The Daily Grind: Do you wait for MMOs to arrive on Steam?

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You might have noticed that last week, Anarchy Online finally joined the whole Steam crowd. It was weird to look at that story and...

Funcom is ‘relaunching’ The Secret World in 2017, but it’s maintenance mode for Anarchy Online and Age of Conan

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Funcom's fourth quarter 2016 financial report for investors landed this afternoon, and it's a doozy, especially for MMORPG players. Of most interest is the...

The Game Archaeologist: Earth and Beyond

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Personally, I prefer science fiction over fantasy nine times out of ten, even though most of the MMOs that grace my desktop are fantasy...

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