AdventureQuest
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Loading ...AdventureQuest (also referred to by its website name BattleOn or abbreviated to AQ) is an online single-player RPG developed by Artix Entertainment in 2002. It was released on October 15 of that year. It is written in Adobe Flash, and features animation. The game follows the adventures of a character tied with the town of Battleon (the player) as he or she explores the game world while engaging in combat with various enemies. As of September 5, 2009, aq.battleon.com, the game’s hosting website, and www.battleon.com, the game’s homepage, have an Alexa rating of 1,818.
AdventureQuest and all related games are set within the world of Lore, formerly a tongue-in-cheek reference to the game’s original title, Lands of Rising Evil, which has since been explained to refer to Lorithia, a name of the goddess of creation in the game’s storyline. In June 2004, the number of AdventureQuest players had reached one million. By June 2005, the game had 5 million users, which increased to 40.3 million by September 2007. As of June 18, 2009, Battleon.com currently holds a database of more than 65 million users.
Guardianship, a measure introduced on February 23, 2003, to manage the costs of running the game, added a one-time fee-based character upgrade service. Ownership of the game transferred to the newly-formed Artix Entertainment in 2004, and a server population cap was added for non-Guardian players in May of that year. In October 2006, Artix Entertainment introduced a “special group” in which a player could log on at anytime, but could only get to level 50. Around June 23, 2009, Captain Rhubarb decided to dissolve this special group. On the forums, Captain Rhubarb said: “Due to changes being made for WarpForce, and the various exploits possible in AQ to get XP outside monster battles, I decided to dissolve that special group system.” As AdventureQuest grew, Artix Entertainment added new methods to pay for in-game content, such as X – Guardianship in October 2005 and purchasable Z-Tokens in June 2006, and released other related games, such as DragonFable (July 26, 2005), MechQuest (October 11, 2007), ArchKnight (now integrated into DragonFable) and ZardWars. In May 2008, AdventureQuest Worlds, a massively multiplayer game related to AdventureQuest, was created.
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