MMORPG Anarchy Online Free for one year!

Game on eh?

from JoeUser Forums
In what I can only imagine is a push to get players, Funcom has announced that their Sci-Fi MMORPG Anarchy Online will be free until January 1, 2006. The three expansion packs Alien Invasion, Shadowlands, and Notum Wars are not included, but can be added on for a price. The best part of the offer is that no credit card is required. If you elect to not put in any billing information your account will simply freeze on 1/1/06.

I haven't ever played an MMORPG simply because I don't have the time to play in order to make it worth the monthly subscription fee, but this looks like a pretty good deal to me. I have already signed up, will be using the nickname Jexxster (BlueDev was already taken) once I start playing. I haven't had a chance to give it a go yet, so I can't really tell you anything other than that, but this could be a fun chance for those who haven't played it before. It didn't score amazingly well, but a glance at reviews seem to show it getting pretty solidly in the high 70% low 80%. If anyone else already plays or signs up, let us know!

Go sign up here

Download the client to install the game here

If you prefer, you can get a torrent for the installer here
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
hmm, when I tried to register it told me they had made an error and not to panic. Too good to be true I guess
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Odd, I was able to without any problem. When did you get the error? I just checked my email and there was the email from them, pretty clear about it being free for one year. Hope it works for you.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I got the error about ten seconds before posting that reply. I'll try again, but I thought it was funny
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sorry, I meant when in the registration process did you get that error. It is funny though.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Right off the bat, I hit the button for registering and it gave me that error, but it worked when I tried it again just now. hehe, now to wait for it to download so I can decide it isn't worth playing
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
now to wait for it to download so I can decide it isn't worth playing


that is why I haven't started the download yet. But I will try it dangit, I will!!!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
With a year free, yeah, it is a rather tempting offer. I played it back in the open beta for a week or two, wasn't terrible impressive, but it had potential. Maybe I'll become addicted now and spend all my time in anarchy land
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
So... why would Bluedev be taken? To me it's a fairly out there name but maybe there's a reason why more than yourself would be using it perhaps.

To prove a point to my sister on her computer I agreed to set up an AIM account at home. I had to chose a screen name so I picked something from a story I'd written years ago: 700yearknight (ish... not giving my secrets away, precious...)

It was already taken. Frankly this boggled me. I ended up going with vapidotter (vapid otter - about my thirtieth pronoun-animal combination before I got one that wasn't taken). I'm still amazed at the scale of the internet and yet how similar a lot of our thinking is. I've been toying around with http://www.20Q.net recently and I think it's a good example of this. The real question is: if everybody used it would it become perfect, or become useless?
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
So... why would Bluedev be taken? To me it's a fairly out there name but maybe there's a reason why more than yourself would be using it perhaps.


I picked it because I am a Duke grad student and our mascot is the Blue Devils. Probably some other college student picked it back in the game's heyday.

When I tried to sign up for an AIM nickname I ran into the same thing with Jexxster. I thought it was pretty unique, but it was already taken as well.