The
sci-fi genre in MMOs is on the verge of some major expansion, with
a long list of promising titles set to release later this year. This
summer also marks the 8th anniversary of the genre’s first
major release, Funcom’s href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/40"
target="_blank"> style="font-style: italic;">Anarchy Online. 
Ten Ton Hammer’s href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/features/final-frontier"
target="_blank">resident sci-fi captain,
Reuben “Sardu” Waters, recently took an updated
look at AO, making a few pleasant discoveries along the way:


Call it what you will,
but having an Advisor of Rubi-Ka offer to help
me learn the ropes of the game left a remarkably positive impression.
It also reminded me that AO harkens back to a time before hyper
bread-crumbing quest chains, when GM run events were common and social
bonds glued game communities together to a degree rarely seen in
today’s “massively solo-friendly” market.


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Last Updated: Mar 29, 2016

About The Author

Reuben "Sardu" Waters has been writing professionally about the MMOG industry for eight years, and is the current Editor-in-Chief and Director of Development for Ten Ton Hammer.

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