Funcom announced that the free Anarchy Online offer has been a tremendous success and would be extended throughout 2006, into 2007. (This approach allows everyone tired of elves, fairies and gnomes to enter a futuristic RPG world full of fun action totally free of cost).

It's the long-term goal for Funcom to make sure that the removal of subscription fees, client costs and the need to have a credit card when registering for Anarchy Online remains a permanent offering. Now, and for the year to come, anyone curious about the heralded qualities of the ultimate sci-fi MMORPG can play without any financial commitments.

"The free initiative has been a great success," says Trond Arne Aas, CEO of Funcom. "More than 400.000 new players have signed up during the last ten months, and extremely few MMO titles can show a similar increase in registrations in the same time-frame. Seeing the great feedback from the free offer we are thus going to extend it into 2007 and beyond."

The offer has its limitations, as the free version does not include access to any of the three expansion packs. If you wish to upgrade to any of the expansion packs, monthly subscription and client fees will be added.

This is good news indeed and a blow to WOW players worldwide, which might change side just for the fun of it.

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