Turbine is offering a fourteen day free trial to it's Teen rated MMO Asheron's Call (1999) (download is 369MB, about 13hr 56K dial-up, 0.5hr DSL, 15min Cable.)
If you decide to stay after the '14 Day free trial' it subscribes you at us$12.95 per month. Billed through the account one has to create to play the trial.
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Once subscribed all of your friends that use the referal key and likewise subscribe will credit you a free month play.

3 month us$35.75, 6 month us$67.75, 12 month us$119.75 subscription plans.

No idea yet if/when Turbine will offer combined subscription with their other games Dungeon and Dragons Online or Lord of the Rings Online

Minimum System Requirements:
Processor: 733 MHz processor
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Graphics Card: 32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video adapter w/ hardware T&L
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Network Connection: 56K+ Internet connection
Software: Windows® 98SE/2000/XP
Disk Space: 4X CD-ROM 3 GB hard drive space

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Processor: 1 GHz processor
Memory: 512MB RAM
Graphics Card: 128 MB DirectX 9.0 w/ hardware T&L and vertex shaders
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Network Connection: 56K+ Internet connection
Software: Windows® XP, DirectX® 9
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Nice but if it was AC2 then i think it would be a hotter topic :) and i agree they should implement something along the lines of the station pass.

bugs me they ask for a credit card to try an ancient game =/

It shouldn't bug you.  When you sign up for the trial, you have to create an account.  If you don't cancel after 14 days, they will charge your credit card 13 bucks a month.  Sounds like an easy income; half the time people would forget to cancel and get dinged for 13 bucks.  Anyways, it IS an ancient game, but one I skipped so I might try it out...good thing to fill the time in May until Age of Conan comes out since they aren't having an open beta.

Originally posted by Sineath

It shouldn't bug you.  When you sign up for the trial, you have to create an account.  If you don't cancel after 14 days, they will charge your credit card 13 bucks a month.  Sounds like an easy income; half the time people would forget to cancel and get dinged for 13 bucks.  Anyways, it IS an ancient game, but one I skipped so I might try it out...good thing to fill the time in May until Age of Conan comes out since they aren't having an open beta.

You shouldn't forget to cancel an account with your credit card number on it.

It's not as good as it used to be, maybe it will be re-populated if turbine gets smart enough to combine subscriptions. Can't expect them to do what the fans of the game want though... the old devs would've but the new devs are crap until proven otherwise

A combined plan would help spread people around DDO and LotRO, but wouldn't help AC. I doubt many would move to an old game like AC after playing modern games like DDO and LotRO. AC players would be more prone to move to LotRO and DDO resulting in a further declining AC population.

As others and I stated numerous times before, the only real option to bring people is to make pre-DM/original AC free to play. Sadly, I doubt it happens.

Turbine cannot support a lot of new players. If a lot of people started playing again who knows how the game would handle it. There haven't been thousands of players on a single world in years. It's a lot of extra time and money to support the problems brought on by a surge of new free players.

It would require programming that the current AC team appears to be incapable of. They would have to reimplement the pre-DM checks on housing, portals, and items that were removed in subsequent years. A queing system that gives priority to paying subscribers may also be needed if a lot of free players joined since the AC servers can only support a finite number of players.