MMORPG Anarchy Online Free for one year!

Game on eh?

Published on December 15, 2004 By BlueDev In MMORPG

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

Comments

Danny Bassette

on Dec 15, 2004

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

BlueDev

on Dec 15, 2004

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.

Danny Bassette

on Dec 15, 2004

I got the error about ten seconds before posting that reply. I'll try again, but I thought it was funny

BlueDev

on Dec 15, 2004

Sorry, I meant when in the registration process did you get that error.

It is funny though.

Danny Bassette

on Dec 15, 2004

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

BlueDev

on Dec 15, 2004

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!!!

Danny Bassette

on Dec 15, 2004

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

Frightlever

on Dec 18, 2004

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?

BlueDev

on Dec 18, 2004

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.

Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:

Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums.
Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
It's simple, and FREE!