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Asheron's Call (AC) was a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows PCs, developed and published by Turbine Entertainment Software. Though it was developed by the Turbine team (with Microsoft's extensive assistance), it was published as a Microsoft title until 2004.
WB Games Boston (formerly Turbine Inc., then Turbine Entertainment Software Corp., and originally CyberSpace, Inc.) is an American video game developer.The studio is best known for its massive multiplayer online role-playing games, Asheron's Call, Dungeons & Dragons Online, and The Lord of the Rings Online.
As with most other MMORPGs of the era, Asheron's Call 2 was a subscription-based game, costing $12.95 USD/EUR per month to play. The Asheron's Call franchise was unique in providing complimentary monthly content updates or "events" that added new quests, skills, landmasses, monsters, gameplay dynamics and bug fixes to all subscribers.
Well-done online role-playing games tend to have a long shelf life, but the Asheron's Call series has lasted longer than most. It got started way back in 1999, and has lasted through three ...
Daybreak Game Company LLC is an American video game developer based in San Diego.The company was founded in December 1997 as Sony Online Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment, but was spun off to an independent investor in February 2015 and renamed Daybreak Game Company.
The game Asheron's Call is updated monthly and for the last few years this is the only site to document these content patches. The wiki contains 24,000 AC related articles with primary source documentation including archives of material no longer available from the period when the AC franchise was owned by Microsoft/The Zone.
Dark Age of Camelot launched smoothly four months later, introducing "Realm vs. Realm" PvP and other innovations, and quickly passed Ultima Online and Asheron's Call in popularity, and became EverQuest’s main rival.
Asheron's Call 2: Closed: 3D: Fantasy: Pay-to-play: 2002: 2005, 2017 [2] Ashes of Creation: Development 3D Fantasy Pay-to-play TBA Astonia III: Active 2D: Fantasy: Free-to-play: 2001: Originally pay-to-play until 2014 when the official servers shut down and the creator released the source code; thus, multiple fan-made communities emerged ...