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    Thumbs up Monthly Development Update - August 2016 (Steam Powered)

    Hello everyone! It has been a while. This month has required a fair amount of juggling plates, but progress has been made and I'm pleased to quickly announce some of these future updates.

    Steam
    Over the past couple of months, we have been working with Valve to enable Anarchy Online to run via Steam. In order to make this happen, some changes needed to happen with their platform, which took longer than we had expected. Truth be told, however, I am still a little starstruck that Valve made a change to Steam just for us. Fanboying aside, this week showed the first real signs of progress towards getting AO on steam, as we were able to log in and play without the previous issues we had encountered.

    Before the end of the year, we hope to have resolved all the lingering issues and have completed all the needed preparations in order to release AO on Steam for all to download and enjoy. Thank you everyone for your patience!

    Halloween
    This year we will be releasing new Halloween content, this time in the form of an instanced solo dungeon. The difficulty of the encounter will scale with the level of the engaging player, available for players of all levels, and will take players deep under the festering Pumpkin Patch. I'll have a better preview for this event before we kick it off in October!

    Thank You
    I look forward to showing off more of what's being worked on as it nears completion. It will be nice to have some new Halloween content. Our upcoming Steam release will also be a great help for the future and longevity of the project. Have a great September, everyone!
    Henry "Michizure" Senger
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    Great news that the Steam work continues.

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    Hope steam will bring in some new players (and they stay).

    Looking forward to the new Halloween content. Will the instance also give an opportunity to level up, something like daily missions but with Halloween theme? The Reck was good and it would be nice to see more similar stuff even if it is in a smaller scale.

    Keep up the good work!
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    Short, but I like it!
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    Excellent news on Steam, too bad it was so short (she said!)
    Now let's get a few patches out to test with new stuff/fixes
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    steam is a great step forward for the game, hopefully "before the end of the year" doesn't mean december. it could do wonders for the population with a bit of luck.
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    so all in all it's a fairly viable setup

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    Any additional explanation as to why MP rhiwen tiers 1-2 were nerfed?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Psikie View Post
    Any additional explanation as to why MP rhiwen tiers 1-2 were nerfed?
    Doubt he'll explain himself, but the reqs for t3 are not on pair with the rest of pet profs so i do hope this will get revised.
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    Steam looking like a go is the most positive news I've seen in months. Would make for a nice AO Xmas present.

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    i self t3 rather easy, is a endgame pet and i think it should require endgame items.
    the t3 is very good and it's just weird if it would be easy to cast on top of it. and yes engi pets is redicules, but thats another story, then the problem is there and not with the T3 rhiwen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michizure View Post
    Hello everyone! It has been a while. This month has required a fair amount of juggling plates, but progress has been made and I'm pleased to quickly announce some of these future updates.

    Steam
    Over the past couple of months, we have been working with Valve to enable Anarchy Online to run via Steam. In order to make this happen, some changes needed to happen with their platform, which took longer than we had expected. Truth be told, however, I am still a little starstruck that Valve made a change to Steam just for us. Fanboying aside, this week showed the first real signs of progress towards getting AO on steam, as we were able to log in and play without the previous issues we had encountered.

    Before the end of the year, we hope to have resolved all the lingering issues and have completed all the needed preparations in order to release AO on Steam for all to download and enjoy. Thank you everyone for your patience!

    Halloween
    This year we will be releasing new Halloween content, this time in the form of an instanced solo dungeon. The difficulty of the encounter will scale with the level of the engaging player, available for players of all levels, and will take players deep under the festering Pumpkin Patch. I'll have a better preview for this event before we kick it off in October!

    Thank You
    I look forward to showing off more of what's being worked on as it nears completion. It will be nice to have some new Halloween content. Our upcoming Steam release will also be a great help for the future and longevity of the project. Have a great September, everyone!
    Finally !! Now please Funcom, advertise everywhere and you'll get MUCH more money and this game will be active again !!!!!!

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    So it begins!

    Keep it up Michi
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    Bloody hell, someone at Steam is either an old AO player, or steam sees the potential in AO that FC doesn't.
    Good job Mitchi
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    Excelent news !

    Steam - very nice (for Michi - Valve is not changing it for us - is changing it for them - they saw the potential and if the game will be for sale one day guess who will buy it ? GabeN )
    Instanced Halloween solo dungeon - excelent idea ! Let's build those toons to perfection !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Caloss2 View Post
    ...or steam sees the potential in AO that FC doesn't.
    Hat sales?
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    Sayet - 220 Doctor

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    Very good news!

    cant u open a new server with steam intro, without Multiboxing. would for sure make a better experience for new players, and i for one would delete all i have on old servers and start over again

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    SHINY! WELL DONE!

    It's going to be "interesting" but mostly in a good way. Start prepping the newbie answers.
    Last edited by Literary; Sep 14th, 2016 at 18:44:04. Reason: smileys are broken :(

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    So, I got a question. Are you going to try make ao more "friendly" for new players? Because it aint no secret that AO is not very easily understood for new players.

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    AO was less friendly when i started back in 2001. I say its pretty easy for newcommers now days. Making things more lazy is another thing.

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