Anarchy Online getting desperate

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Anarchy Online getting desperate

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Hehe, just found this on Gamespot, seems like AO are getting REALLY desperate to get customers, now they offer 1 free year of playing.

http://dlx.gamespot.com/pc/anarchyonlin ... 15450.html
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fishing for customers...

free 1 year subscription, with fine print that if too many sign up and server load gets high, it will be cancelled with the option to buy.
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Post by Drolgin Steingrinder »

AO actually grew into a pretty good game after the looooooong stretch of unplayability due to bugs / crappy cs / server issues.

If I had time, I'd give it a whirl again, especially since it's free.
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It's only the basic game that is free, not the expansions. And not a bad PR trick really, especially considering the fact that the game is damn good now.
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Post by Cotto »

I worked with a guy who still played it (tried to get him on EQ but no joy :P ) he got me into it for a while, both online and the offline one, quite fun if you went through with it.
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The billboards really aren't too imposing. They also moved advertisements for NPC places around as well so that it all fits in. The only ad I got tired of were the Motley Crue ads.
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