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This a Sci-fi game NOT FANTASY!
ghostsaman
Member Posts: 48
Hello.
I started AO some months after SL was released. That's bad because I wanted to be there from the beginning, when it was pure Sci-fi. I rember an add, a fantasy geek was dressed as an Elf and a sci-fi geek was just standing there next to him. The fantasy geek said his Elf name and the sci-fi geek tought "Gaaaayyyyy...." 
. Then it stood something like this "Trade that girly bow into a sniper rifle, come and play Anarchy Online"
I say they released SL because the most MMORPGs was set in a fantasy world and fantasy is so hyped now.. Well ok, theres good exp, good perks, cool places that you can see. But it just destroys the game. Science Fiction and Fantasy should not be mixed. The funniest thing was today, as I was talking with my org, a guy from there said "man RK is not SCI-FI" What!? Lol RK is Sci-fi! It's a shame that the keepers can come to RK. It looks like they are taken directly from a fantasy movie. When SL was released FC stopped thinking about RK..Sure they added Alien Invasion but every player city there is a f*ckin ghost town.
Still AO is a great game but it could have been better. And I don't hate fantasy I just don't like when they mix it with sci-fi, there's so little left of science fiction these day....
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i think ao need more dragons...or they will lost last customers
That's what they tought when they made Shadowlands.
"Well.. Everquest is doing so good, maybe we can create something new in that style?" "Yeah! Let's add some dragons a..and a knight!" "A knight, hmm isn't that just too much?" "Noooo.. It will sell!"
But what happend? I heard that many people left just because of Shadow Lands. So no AO doesn't need more dragons.
Nano-technology=spell casting.When i started playing shortly after launch i saw a LOT of players come over from EQ.The main thing they saw when self buffing?They saw it as spell casting.
Im sorry man but AO was designed from the get go to attract scifi fans AND fantasy fans there is just no 2 ways about that.They put all the weapons any scifi and fantasy fan would want into the game.They put dungeons into it etc etc.
Why not space exploration?If it was a true scifi game that would have been implemented a long time ago.Anyway AO is about to have a very short shelf life very soon.The whole game needs an upgrade,from the graphics to adding more classes,to adding even more professions.They need to add more noobie content as well.
Want to ENJOY an mmo?
Dont start a guild and dont be a leader or volunteer to be coleader or captain.
Just play the damn game:)
I have played AO from almost the start. One thing I have noticed that EQ and AO have in common is they are both dying. What makes me think so is there are very few new people in either game. In AO I see level 10 people offering millions of credits for items. Can you say ALT. That is the only way that a low level character can have that much in game money. I think AO knows also that they are no longer going to get many new players. I think AI is a thinly veiled attempt to hold on to their high level players as that abortion errr expansion offers nothing to low level players.
Another thing that I see happening is some of the high level players are selling their characters. Recently a level 200 engi was asking how to cast a pet. If you played AO you understand what I mean. Yes people are bailing.
To me SL started the downhill slide of AO. SL has nothing to do with the original AO. Funcom dumbed down the game to try to increase the number of players. (HECKLER NOOBS). There is nothing wrong with trying to increase your market share but at least Funcom could have come up with something that fit the original game better. Instead they came out with EQ v 1.5
AO was fun at one time but I think its time is over.
That which does not kill you only makes you stronger.
That which does not kill you only makes you stronger.
I know exactly what you mean.How could a level 200 engineer NOT know how to produce a pet?Ive seen a rumor here and there indicating that funcom (secretly)working on another mmo and they will be shutting down AO within the next year.
When you start seeing level 10 players offering millions of credits for items it spells disaster.That is excatly what screwed up the EQ economy.
Want to ENJOY an mmo?
Dont start a guild and dont be a leader or volunteer to be coleader or captain.
Just play the damn game:)
yeah its a secret project
kinda ao...but with more real dragons...and hobbits
and some horror inside...like ugly lags bugs etc
funcom knews how to make lag perfect
and they need more cosmics lol
for dirty jobs
yeah its a secret project
kinda ao...but with more real dragons...and hobbits
and some horror inside...like ugly lags bugs etc
funcom knews how to make lag perfect
and they need more cosmics lol
for dirty jobs
lol you are such a retard
Maxxatron - Anarchy Online
yeah its a secret project
kinda ao...but with more real dragons...and hobbits
and some horror inside...like ugly lags bugs etc
funcom knews how to make lag perfect
and they need more cosmics lol
for dirty jobs
lol you are such a retard
Maxxatron - Anarchy Online
lol was u born with teh brain damage
or endless hecklers camping damaged ur little brain?
Well, Yes Anarchy Online is the best mmorpg out there right now. But it will not be for so long. And the first time I played Anarchy Online I didn't go to jobe. I started as an Omni in Rome. That was the moment I tought Anarchy Online was the best game in the world. And when I explored RK (I didn't have a yalm so I ran) I felt like I was in the game. It was so fun running away from high level mobs and to see the first big bronto, Clan camps, etc. So it was RK not SL..
I saw another, add it went like this : Does "Every Quest" feel the same? Didn't "Asheron Call" ?. Play Anarchy Online. I guess It's all about making money.
@ FC office.. "Arrgh EQ is doing so well!" "I think RK is getting kind of boring, let's create something new" "Yeah, a new world would be cool" "Let's make it more fantasy style!" "Yes! We need a new proffession, a..a knight!" "Hmm a knight isn't that just too much?" "No it will sell!" "Well, let's add another proffession too.." "Okay and pick a fantasy name" "Shadowlands sounds cool" "Yup!".
I agree with u ghostsaman! IT was a great game!
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Originally posted by lev-27
This information is incorrect. AO have more then 150,000 subscribers. It is a fact.
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When I first played Anarchy Online I loved it. This was before Shadowlands and even before Notum Wars. I loved the world, the Clan vs. Omni war. Both Omni 1 and Tir being filled with people looking for groups, hanging out, buy and selling items. I thought the addition of the Notum Wars was nice since it allowed players and guilds to have areas that could be fought over which make for more Clan vs. Omni fights. I wish they had continued in that direction. Making the war between Omni and the Clans even greater but it seems they keep introducint outside sources to take away from that story, like the whole Shadowlands area and the Alien Invasion which puts the focus on the Aliens. If have to deal with mystical areas like Shadowlands I'd rather it be in a real fantasy game.
I would have liked to have seen the Omni vs Clan war spread to other planets in some way. Following the multi planet idea of Star Wars Galaxies. Not a lot but maybe a planet or a moon or a combination like that.
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