asheron’s call

Official Site: Asheron’s Call
Studio: Turbine, Inc./Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Launch Date: November 2, 1999
Sunset Date: January 31, 2017
Genre: Classic Fantasy Sandbox
Business Model: B2P (Maintenance Mode, One-Time Fee)
Platform: PC
See Also: Asheron’s Call 2

Turbine clarifies Asheron’s Call sunset times

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Turbine has clarified on the official forums the precise moment when Asheron's Call and its sister game, Asheron's Call 2, as well as the...

In appreciation for Dereth: The life and times of Asheron’s Call

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Imagine a game where magic was actually rare, complicated, and often underwhelming in terms of time vs. efficiency -- a game where players actually...

The Stream Team: Beginner’s luck in Asheron’s Call

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There's still a huge world in Asheron's Call to explore, and Massively OP's MJ hasn't quite made it out of the tutorial yet! Time...

The Stream Team: Trying out Asheron’s Call before it’s gone

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If you wait too long, sometimes you will miss out, and Massively OP's MJ almost missed out on seeing the world of Asheron's Call....

Asheron’s Call player preserves 50 towns in videos

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Tick-tock, tick-tock. The countdown timer for Asheron's Call is running out, as the fantasy title has a half-month until it shuts down for good....

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best races?

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The other night I had the opportunity to play Asheron's Call for the first time (and most likely, the last time). It was a...
Let's make this happen.

Betawatch: Project Gorgon gears up with high-level content (January 13, 2017)

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Is it fair to call Project Gorgon a spiritual successor to Asheron's Call? I'm going to go with yes, which means that this year...
Call and answer.

Check out one of the oldest Asheron’s Call players… in all senses of the word

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The impending shutdown of Asheron's Call is outright sad news. It's an old title with a lot of strange elements, the likes of which...

Asheron’s Call players reach out to WB to save their MMO

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Another player-led effort to save Asheron's Call from termination is attempting to raise funds from the community to buy or license the game outright....

The Soapbox: Asheron’s Call is dead, and Turbine killed it

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You'd think recent news about Asheron's Call 1 and AC2 would be easy to swallow. After all, we'd already been warned that Turbine was becoming a mobile...

Don’t miss The Game Archaeologist’s histories of Asheron’s Call

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The impending loss of Asheron's Call -- and Asheron's Call 2 again -- hit the MMORPG community pretty hard when the sunsets were announced...
Oh jeez.

Asheron’s Call and its sequel will sunset as part of the Turbine/Standing Stone split

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I'm sorry to report that Turbine announced today that it will be sunsetting Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call 2 as part of the transition...
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Turbine spins LOTRO and DDO teams out to new studio, using Daybreak as publisher

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Welp, didn't see this one coming. Turbine has just announced that it's spinning off the Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online...

Massively Overthinking: FOMO and time-limited events in MMORPGs

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Earlier this week, Daybreak told players it wanted to get back to time-limited events in DC Universe Online. "Events make logging in every day...

Massively Overthinking: The many ‘NGE’ moments across MMORPG history

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Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...

Massively Overthinking: Our five favorite MMORPGs of all time

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Earlier this week, Redditor maxpower888 started an epic thread on the /r/mmorpg sub asking everyone to chime in and name his or her top five...
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Massively Overthinking: The classes MMORPGs never do

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No one wants to play Uncle Owen, a certain MMORPG exec famously said -- except, you know, for all the people who really, really...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG soundtracks

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MOP's Justin Olivetti created the music-centered Jukebox Heroes column back on Massively-that-was and brought it along to us here, and to this day it's...
Avec les hommes et le Pokey.

Five IPs that could tackle ARG gameplay features Pokemon Go lacks

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Following the news that Niantic is now in fact working on a Harry Potter AR game, I realized that even as someone who enjoyed the...

One Shots: Gentlemen, to evil!

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There are some subtle signs that you can look for when you're trying to gauge if you've become truly evil. Conquering small nations for...

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