M&C's Walk-n-Shop...
That is the name of me and my brother's aspiring business on Anarchy Online. If you've never heard of Anarchy Online, you can either look it up on GameSpot, or listen to my descrpition. Either way, I'll tell you here. Anarchy Online is a Massive Multiplayer game where thousands of people role-play in the giant world of Rubi-Ka. Communities are built, friendship's are made, and glitches are found. (And exploited!) But, before I can go on with the description, I will describe how I came upon this game...
Well, I was looking on Gamespot for Massive Multiplayers and after many searches over quite a long time, the best ones were Dark Age of Camelot and Anarachy Online. I could get a free trail for both, and Anarchy Online's lasted until January 2007! Dark Age of Camelot didn't work out and a eventually, back in the beginning of September, I gave Anarchy a try. At first, it was confusing, and the frame rate was slooow around other users. I tried (in vain) to understand the interface, but only after a long time did I finally understand it, although I'm still learning even more to this very day. After testing around and making sure it worked with a "test user", I made my real character, a wanna-be-thug Cloyyd. My brother created a user named Mevikk, a aspiring syndicate leader. We joined force's and I was his thug, and he owned a syndicate, so our plan started to take shape. Once we got through the training, we both chose to be neutral and entered Bolerias, the beginning city for neurtrals. We went to get our apartments, but couldn't find out how. After trying for quite some time, and getting help from a friendly user, we got our apartments.
I won't go into detail, but eventually we started selling stuff we didn't need to users around the city, by going up and talking to them. Apperently this was an unusual idea, because some people were surprised, and others that it a cool idea. We sold a good number of wares, but alot of money came from higher-leveled users who could pass on thousands of credits without effecting them at all. Trying to make an honest living, we enventually stopped excpeting so much help, and try now to do things on our own. The store became our main thing and we got our name, M&C's Walk-n-Shop. We're currently level 10, and have quite a bit of money, and have just found out that with our computer's it's impossible to go exploring because our computers go veeeery slow in the wilderness.
Well, yet again the free trial for Anarchy Online has been delayed once more until January 2008. (Before it was delayed from 2006 to 2007.) So that gives is free players another year before we have to start paying. They're also including one of the expansion packs for free, because if you want the rest of the expansions, you have to start paying a monthly subscription fee.
Something I was surprised with on Anarchy Online was the community. Most of the people are very friendly and offer helpful advice, giving away free money and gifts, and helping the new players along their way. Although the infamous players to me and Mevikk are the PvPers. (PvP = Player Vs. Player) They always run up to you wanting to fight you, and beat you, even when they're a lower level, because they always do it when they have some special power that lasts a limited time. One day we'll beat one... one day...
Well, I've been writing a while, so I won't go any deeper into the gameplay of Massive Multiplayers, so I will close with one piece of advice. Give Anarchy Online a try. It's free.
"attack me."
-A PvPer out there somewhere, Anarchy Online