I’ve started my mmorpg playing Anarchy Online and i remember how interesting that game was to me. It was very difficult to master, very complex, but it was a rewarding experience to learn it.

From that time, i tried many new mmorpg, hoping to find something like “AO improved” but it simply does not exist. All new games are made so simplistic that it hurts.

Anyway, i’ll enjoy AO once again now, since im returning to it again.

It’s only sad that community is almost dead there and graphics is really outdated. But with that in mind its still much better choice for me then those new mindless games.

I only hope that after this great mmorpg hype, there will rise some developers that will aim for players like me and original poster and create game that will have nice graphics, ai, but with AO depth.

I am not looking for the next mainstream game with dumb pvp, they are too many on the market and few are worth mentioning, i want a good PVP, with balanced looses, rewards, and persistent damage, similar to EVE. Not WOW II, that doesnt mean that the other games’s PVP is bad, I just find it horrible.

Basically if i won a fight, i want to inflict physical damage to my opponent as in money, items and so on, in a balanced matter, EVE did it well with insurances, but other developers dont have the balls to make a proper PVP system because it wont sell as much as without it, so we go back to money and not gameplay…

As for the rest of features, man.. they need reinvent the quests system, raids, instances, WAR did a nice job here with public quests, failed with high-end content.

Play Planetside or Qualke III if you want PvP, MMORPGs focus correctly more on PvE environments. That being said, do not forget that many games since EQ are simply clones of EQ. (Eve Online, as you mention, is not.) I hate to say it, but Anarchy Online uses very similar mechanics to all other mmorpgs.