Sadly, this will be the last contribution I make to the AO Community. My wife passed away Jan 14 of this year, with the love of my life gone my mind was clouded every day and night. I needed something to occupy myself with, to soothe the pain somehow. I decided to write. What better than about the hobby that kept me entertained for over a decade?

So, weeks went by, months went by as I wrote the document. I must've re-written it at least a hundred times, revising it over and over. Today I reached the end, I'm out of gas. There is no more inspiration left, nothing more I feel I can write.

The document is titled "Anarchy Online, Funcom and the Potential Future of the IP". I think for the most part, only the hardcore AO fans will bother to read it. It is a long and detailed document. It's almost 40 pages long (you have been warned).

If anyone from FC decides to read it, wear a helmet because the words are brutally honest and not all is kind to the company (but still have hope in the people in it) in the Prologue.

In short, there is a prologue where I express my personal feelings about AO and FC and my point of view regarding the future of the IP in the form of either a prequel or sequel to it. I then move on to 3 parts. The first part about the prequel in a lot of detail and how I think would work, the second part about the sequel also in detail and finally in part 3 the things which applies to both regarding technology, features, community reach and marketing. The document will remain public until the end of time (or whenever goggle decides to no longer support goggle docs).

In the years I've been a part of the AO Community, I've had the honor and pleasure of collaborating with a lot of wonderful people, some even from FC and ARK. It was a good run, some of my best gaming years were in AO.

So, thank you to everyone I've crossed paths with here. I wish everyone the best and I hope you all continue to enjoy AO in one form or another.

This is goodbye.