Asheron's Call

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Asheron's Call

Asheron's Call (AC) is a fantasy Massively multiplayer online role-playing game delevoped by Turbine, Inc. released on November 2, 1999.

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See the Returning Player Guide if you have to decided to come back.

Game Info

Major Updates and Expansions

See Patches for a list of all the regular updates made to Asheron's Call.

Early Game Development and Testing

1999 Asheron's Call Beta

Game Release and Expansions

1999 Release	2001 Dark Majesty	2005 Throne of Destiny

Major Updates

2008: 100th Update Ancient Powers	2009: 10th Anniversary Update Gears of Change	2012: Skill System Overhaul Master of Arms

Rules

By playing Asheron's Call, all players agree to the following documents:

History of Asheron's Call

1996 - 1999

Game Development

Development of Asheron's Call began in 1996 and Turbine and Microsoft had entered into a developer/publisher agreement where legal ownership of the property and subsequently-developed properties were owned by Microsoft.
All of the games Servers and the initial beta testing were also hosted on Zone.msn.com as part of the publishing agreement with Microsoft.

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1999

Beta Testing and Release

The AC Beta consisted of three phases which spanned from May until October of 1999.
- See the Asheron's Call Beta page for full details and links.

Other important events that occured before and during beta testing:
- Turbine's beta page, http://www.zogblaster.com/tweb/asherons-call, goes live.
  - See the ACCWiki's Zogblaster Archive to take a look back at the site.
- Microsoft's Asheron's Call page, http://www.microsoft.com/games/zone/asheronscall/, goes live.
  - See the ACCWiki's Microsoft Games Archive to take a look back at the site.

November 2, 1999 - AC goes retail, it is the third major MMORPG to be released at this time.

2000 - 2003

Microsoft Gaming Zone

In addition to the hosting of the game Servers, all AC announcements including patch teasers, rollout articles, letters to the players and patch notes were released onto the AC section of the Microsoft Gaming Zone.
- See the ACCWiki's Microsoft Zone Archive to take a look back at the site.
- See also Category:Microsoft Zone Archive and Category:Patch Announcements.

2003 - Present

Turbine buys Asheron's Call license back

Turbine bought back all franchise rights from Microsoft in 2003 and consequently took responsibility for server hosting. The servers remained at a facility in Washington State until 2008 when all server hardware was replaced and relocated to a facility in Massachusetts near Turbine headquarters. Due to various quality of service issues that caused extended downtime the servers were moved to a new facility on March 30th, 2009.