Politics!

In my previous MMO's ingame politics hasn't really been an issue that has affected the general gameplay. Perhaps because many of those MMO's didn't have the element of PvP as AoC has, perhaps because those MMO's had a much younger target audience than AoC has.

Anyways, right now there's so much political bullshit on Aquilonia it's really starting to influence the general gaming experience in a bad, yet interesting, way.

The bad way is that you can't kill the people want to without hearing tons of whines about it. On a more interesting note, the current political situation can be used as a tool to lie and decieve, to create illusions and to create confusion. This is quite effective to piss people off beyond belief. Its extra-special fun when you can read about it on the forums the day after, where everyone is arguing their own and their guilds cause.

These stupid forum argument, it's a class of their own really. I read a survey somewhere stating that most of the internet arguments taking place on a forum, especially when it comes to MMO-games, always tend to relate to the second world war and the nazi-regime.

We all know, however, that: