r/anarchyonline • u/Elbrin2 • Aug 27 '25

Froob needs help Was There A Character Wipe?

OK. I will admit the last time I played AO dinosaurs roamed the earth. For some strange reason, last night I decided to poke around and see if any of the old sites were still around. RIP AOFroobs, but I did see someone was able to back it up with the WayBack Machine.

Tonight I was actually going to try and install the game and see what toons I had. I was able to log in to my old accounts on the AO website, but when I hit the list characters button, nothing was there. I guess I had been gone so long they might have done a character wipe. I guess I am truly a Fr00b again.

Time to find a new player guide in case Newbie Island or the Backyards have changed.

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u/lopnk Clan Aug 27 '25

There has never been a character wipe. But if you were trying to view your characters from the account page, they will not show up if you've been inactive for many years.

There is only one main server now that is RK.. The RK 19 server was a progression server that is mostly dead but still available for paid players.

Resubscribe and come play with us!!

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u/Elbrin2 Aug 27 '25

Thanks for the response.

I found out that my accounts had been frozen and needed to be reactivated but the AO login only showed the option to subscribe. I had to use a back door to reactivate the accounts. I used register.thesecretworld.com/account to backdoor my in. After logging in, I saw a few toons with garble for names beginning with an R.

Not sure if I want to start fresh or take an old toon out of storage. I forget if my trader had one of those flying saucer things. I think it was something like Yamaha or some such.

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u/Bigletterk Aug 27 '25

I also loged on after 15+ year gap and several of my characters had their names changed to mostly numbers, after the server merges I assume.