I'm enjoying AoC still but only because I rerolled and am hoping the extra content will be in before I reach lvl 55 again. I don't mind the out of memory errors every few hours, the lag spikes every few hours and the population is fine on my server (Aquilonia). I've got more than my money's worth of entertainment but wish they'd add some level 80 content that doesn't require 24 people.
I do find this talk of an expansion a bit strange but maybe Funcom are trying to copy that from Guildwars too. They are quite open about borrowing ideas. I'll tell you exactly why the PVP patch and new content isn't available yet - it's the bait to steal people back from WAR...
I'll tell you exactly why the PVP patch and new content isn't available yet - it's the bait to steal people back from WAR...
well that is a horrible plan. make a game but forget to put in the things people bought it for and why???..... to wait till another new game releases THEN! put out the things they should of already had to get them to come back! HAHA! WORST PLAN EVER
who's taking odds that this expansion is going be just about all of the stuff that should have been there at launch?
The missing content from 50+, the pvp stuff etc, new zones / dungeons...
I know! rather than include that stuff in a timely fashion for your rapidly diminishing playerbase...
Lets label it an expansion and get the morons to pay for the game again! - failcom logic.
I digress... i quit after my months sub ran out. With a lvl 63 barbarian and some alts (the female ones got put on ice after the 'female characters do less damage' bullshit). I gave it a chance and was let down.
I just don't get all the hate against Funcom - if you lack the skill to play it, don't!
what the fu#$?! hahah lack the skill? what skill to playing AoC? Who ever can get off the best combos first skill? or the now who ever has the best gemmed gear skill?
I don't usually post on the forums, I just like to read them. That having been said; I kind of like AOC.
It runs really well on my computer (3.0e8400, 4gigram, 260gtx). I don't have any performance issues w/ all settings to max on a 1920x1200 monitor. I don't know what kind of rigs people w/ performance issues are playing on, but perhaps a new game requires new components. I do get 1 or 2 lag spikes on a 6-8 hour session, but thats livable. I do crash once or twice w/in the same period of time. Compared to most MMO's I've played, that's acceptable (to me) , and I've played 'em all.
This is some major bashing of a decent game. Just opinions i know, but geesh.
I don't usually post on the forums, I just like to read them. That having been said; I kind of like AOC. It runs really well on my computer (3.0e8400, 4gigram, 260gtx). I don't have any performance issues w/ all settings to max on a 1920x1200 monitor. I don't know what kind of rigs people w/ performance issues are playing on, but perhaps a new game requires new components. I do get 1 or 2 lag spikes on a 6-8 hour session, but thats livable. I do crash once or twice w/in the same period of time. Compared to most MMO's I've played, that's acceptable (to me) , and I've played 'em all. This is some major bashing of a decent game. Just opinions i know, but geesh. GL Failcom, I mean Funcom!
Read the tech forums sometime, maybe. People with comps better than yours can barely run the game, if at all. The "you comp sucks" argument fails in relation to this game.
I beta tested it and really had high hopes for it after the performance patch. I recently started playing it again and expected to see even more improvements since the release. But,it turned out i expected way too much of them. The memory leaks(gray map) along with the lag is still present. They continue to nerf the classes "for the sake of pvp". What PvP? Constant ganking? I can overlook all the technical issues of a new game. I,however, cannot overlook the lack of community and team based driven content. Guilds are practically useless and player cities serve no real purpose besides being a waste of space. No player housing at all. Did i mention that cities are instanced? Where the fuck is the fun in that? All in all, this is just another disappointing MMO title.
I'm enjoying AoC still but only because I rerolled and am hoping the extra content will be in before I reach lvl 55 again. I don't mind the out of memory errors every few hours, the lag spikes every few hours and the population is fine on my server (Aquilonia). I've got more than my money's worth of entertainment but wish they'd add some level 80 content that doesn't require 24 people. I do find this talk of an expansion a bit strange but maybe Funcom are trying to copy that from Guildwars too. They are quite open about borrowing ideas. I'll tell you exactly why the PVP patch and new content isn't available yet - it's the bait to steal people back from WAR...
The re-roll plan to fun in AoC has a limited lifespan. Trust me, I did this, too. I played my DT up to L55 and decided to shelf him when the only quest available was White Hand Officers. I then rolled a PoM and lo and behold, she got to L55 with the only quest available being White Hand Officers. I then rolled Guardian, but I really couldn't stomach going through Connall's Valley or the Wild Lands yet again, doing the same stuff. Oh, and did I mention that all this was done back in May/June when they first promised the additional L50+ content?
Failcom is the same as Wimpy from the old Popeye cartoons. Remember his famous line? "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." In case you couldn't guess, Tuesday never seems to come around.
Most the posters in this thread probably don't even play the game because their computer's aren't up to date. So, they simply decided to hop onto the hater band wagon after sitting there all day just trying to install the damn thing. The game just launced, almost every launch is not nearly as glorious as ya'll apparently think it is or should be. I agree that the game lacks end game content, and that there are bugs, but give funcom some time to address the problem, and other problems that may arise. Keyword being there is TIME. From reading most threads I get this feeling that you people believe a game should be perfect at launch, with barely any bugs and 25 man raids. All this flaming on AOC is unnecessary considering how young the game is. Oh wow, you say population is subsizing? AOC's current population is 3x that of WoW at launch, even with all the negativity AOC has to deal with it's kicking harder than Chuck Norris. I understand you guys have nothing else to do but cry and cry some more, and I also understand that it comes naturally, but STFU already, K THNX.
I'm curious to see how the community will react to WAR, because cearly MMO gamers are a tough crowd.
"Everything the light touches is our kingdom" -- Mufasa ---
Personally, my computer is 3 years old, and it ran the game just fine. Also, I have no expectation that the game would be perfect right at launch, but I would expect it to improve with each patch. That is where most of the player base has a beef with Failcom. Patches after launch for the most part dealt with things that were mostly insignificant to the core game itself (emotes? c'mon) or they made changes that made the gameplay suck (Cistern/Master System bosses, anyone?). Then there's a whole laundry list of issues that were known during beta, which were not addressed. I'd hazard a guess that many remain unaddressed.
Yeah, time is all anyone ever needs to evenually home in on a target, but Failcom's running out of it as players bail on this title. When you consider that they've been working on this title since 2003, the "they just need more time" argument doesn't really seem to fly all that well. At least with Anarchy Online, they had the decency not to charge players for the first few months of post-launch beta testing.
The only way to get people to "STFU already" as you so eloquently put it is for Failcom to actually walk their talk and resolve the issues that people complain about.
i don't wish to flame unabashed, nor to i wish to be deluded and not acknowledge the fact that the game is largely a disappointment. it's confusing to pay for and play a game with the issues AoC has, week after week the corrections/bug fixes/adjustments all focus on relatively inconsequential issues compared to what a person would expect to be top priorities.
i was fortunate to join a very good guild at release which spared me the hell of lack of content to level, i was simply power leveled. and the time at 80 has been spent raiding and open world pvping. it was great while it lasted. but my guild, and server, are loosing ppl everyday. the only way to survive in AoC is with a strong posse.
i tried out WAR and was reminded how much the real time combat in AoC meant to me. i don't really like WAR compared to what AoC could be, but you need the 'massive' to make it an MMO and my massive is moving to WAR for the most part.
for the record: my mmo resume is very short, but having been introduced to the genre by wow, i found it very disappointing that Hyboria was only as big as whatever zone you were in. i don't know if it's too much to expect the full continent environment you existed in when you were in wow, but that really detracted from the experience for me.
i can only guess that if some computers, of same general performance level, are having tech problems and some aren't, that it is driver compatability that is causing the trouble? I'm really only a novice when it comes to such things. Why else would my computer run the game fine, and another SIMILAR computer not??
I played VG for almost a year, suffered through MAJOR technical/performance issues because I liked the game, issues that put Conan's problems to shame.....So I ask myself, do I like Conan as much as I did VG. Not really, but I'm having no trouble with Conan. Where does this leave me? I'm gonna go give WAR a try.
I dont care if I get flamed for this but AoC has its issues like any other MMO but compared to the other dozen MMO's I have played the launch IMO was good enough and better than I expected and so far for 3 months the game has taken up all my gaming time and taken me away from EVE as well. The issues I have with the game are:
* Grouping - please introduce automatic grouping and summon. Its a simple fix and it would improve the game 100%. Its frustrating when you see people LFM's and you are too far away to join in even if you wanted to.
* Crafting items at your level or lower: Big issue with this as you can only craft items at your level or lower. I think it should be open for anyone at any level so a level 10 player can follow a crafter's life instead of
*Some CTD's but it comes and goes and mostly doesnt happen.
However there is a great deal more positives in this game for me and since my rig can run it at high spec and still get 40fps it looks amazing. I have 3x level 60 characters and still enjoy the leveling. On my server the population is more than enough, cant speak for others.
Fact is WAR will come out with the same bugs and issues and once again we will see it get flamed. The key factor is that any player who is enjoying the game isn't on these forums as they are too buys playing. I already feel sorry for WAR's launch.
Are these people takeing the piss, improved group content, what groups????
Most people have left already and it is nearly imposible to find a partner let alone a group, i'm currently on the Bloodrand server and was in one of the largest raiding guilds there but the guild is no more, people have left the game simple because Funcom don't fix whats broken.
This is a good game, Ooops, did I say is a good game, I meant to say was, you need people to play it first before you can even call it a game.
Don't get me wrong, I like this game, I have 3xlvl80's 2xlvl70's and the rest are between 30 to 50, and I don't realy care about DX10 or even a expansion, I simple want to be able to play with other people or even solo in a fairly bug free MMO, thats all I want.
After the last patch about 50% of the comments all contained the same line "Closeing my account" you would think that Funcom would take note.
I realy can't say how much more I can put up with myself before I leave the game as well but one thing is sure and that is if thay don't do anything major about the problems before War or WoTLK arrive I feel we can say goodbye to AoC.
Are these people takeing the piss, improved group content, what groups???? Most people have left already and it is nearly imposible to find a partner let alone a group, i'm currently on the Bloodrand server and was in one of the largest raiding guilds there but the guild is no more, people have left the game simple because Funcom don't fix whats broken. This is a good game, Ooops, did I say is a good game, I meant to say was, you need people to play it first before you can even call it a game. Don't get me wrong, I like this game, I have 3xlvl80's 2xlvl70's and the rest are between 30 to 50, and I don't realy care about DX10 or even a expansion, I simple want to be able to play with other people or even solo in a fairly bug free MMO, thats all I want. After the last patch about 50% of the comments all contained the same line "Closeing my account" you would think that Funcom would take note. I realy can't say how much more I can put up with myself before I leave the game as well but one thing is sure and that is if thay don't do anything major about the problems before War or WoTLK arrive I feel we can say goodbye to AoC.
I hear ya Bass and I left Vanguard because it was a ghost town just like PotBS and TR in the end. However so far the RP-PvP server I am on (aquillonia) is still pretty busy and I get a group or at least group up with a couple of player pretty easily. I think its more successful on the EU servers than anywhere else. Thing is I hear the same thing in my guild and other guilds and that is people are enjoying the game but there is a large majority waiting until WAR comes out and the rest are watching Funcom closely to see if they add / improve a lot of the game. Funcom needs to push out a lot of 'great' content and fixes quickly and get word of mouth going that the game is improving and quickly. I enjoy it a lot still but I know post 65 I am going to get frustrated with not being able to play the best dungeons because the players may not be there.
2nd - as a crafter at heart I hate working on my skills to find out there is no one there to buy my freakin goods!!! I was so mad with Vanguard because I maxed out crafting and made several server unique items only to see them rot on the market...very sad.
An average game is a great game with loads of people playing.
Well I personally have had no memory errors or crashes of any kind... so far. I did upgrade my PC in late April mostly for being able to play this game, also becuase my last major upgrade was Nov 2004.
It's amazing how everyone whines about what Funcom hasn't done but won't speak about what they have done.
More voiceovers have been added, since many complained that after Tortage there were no more.
Certain dungeons were revamped to make them more challenging. The "inspired by WoW" boss they mentioned is not a tank-n-spank. If you don't have 2 high dps players keeping the minions from sacrificing themselves he is unkillable. Course doing that you have 2 less dps on the boss himself. Loot tables were upgraded as well.
They made resource gathering a bit easier, especially in the resource zones.
Those are just a few examples. Is the game perfect? No of course not. WoW wasn't perfect at launch either and took Blizzard months to get things relatively stable (stuck while looting bug, server's crashing, queues, etc). So ok you're bubble been burst and AoC isn't the Gem of Perfection you all hoped it would be. There are enough people enjoying it now so it's not going to the bargain bin anytime soon.
Why does Funcom have to be such.. well you know, douches? I really wanted to like Age of Conan when it was first coming out. With every word out of their mouths another nail goes into their coffin. Some one really needs to buy them out.
Suprised Woody or Avery aren't here leading the crusade to defend the failure, unless I missed them when scrolling through. It could have been an amazing game. They screwed the pooch in my opinion, no expansion with just one area and a couple new dungeon techniques that pissed me off when they were implimented on WoW.
--------------------- Sniper is another term for unorthodox surgeon.
The paid for expansion will be when the DX10 gfx show their face.
For me, the PvP system is one of the main reasons I left. i am all for being able to PK anyone you choose, but, having max level players camping the entry level zones and PKing everyone is just pathetic.
A lack of a consequence system from the word go is a fault for this one.
Most of the problems the game is suffering from could/should have been resolved in Beta.
I have enjoyed my time in AoC. I have several characters at level ~60. Warhammer is where I am going. I am unlikely to go back to AoC. There are too many other MMOs out there that I have promised myself I will return to (WOW, EQII, Vanguard).
Did you ever see that drunken pirate walk from the pub/ship in Tortage and take a leak in the Sea? Gotta be a classic MMO moment
the announcement that Funcom currently has a small team working on the game's first expansion.
Orly? How can you throw even more resources to try and sell what has proven a completely failure. I doubt Funcom will ever manage to clear their name and that of Conan ever. Who is going to buy this expansion? What are they thinking?
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I'm enjoying AoC still but only because I rerolled and am hoping the extra content will be in before I reach lvl 55 again. I don't mind the out of memory errors every few hours, the lag spikes every few hours and the population is fine on my server (Aquilonia). I've got more than my money's worth of entertainment but wish they'd add some level 80 content that doesn't require 24 people.
I do find this talk of an expansion a bit strange but maybe Funcom are trying to copy that from Guildwars too. They are quite open about borrowing ideas. I'll tell you exactly why the PVP patch and new content isn't available yet - it's the bait to steal people back from WAR...
well that is a horrible plan. make a game but forget to put in the things people bought it for and why???..... to wait till another new game releases THEN! put out the things they should of already had to get them to come back! HAHA! WORST PLAN EVER
who's taking odds that this expansion is going be just about all of the stuff that should have been there at launch?
The missing content from 50+, the pvp stuff etc, new zones / dungeons...
I know! rather than include that stuff in a timely fashion for your rapidly diminishing playerbase...
Lets label it an expansion and get the morons to pay for the game again! - failcom logic.
I digress... i quit after my months sub ran out. With a lvl 63 barbarian and some alts (the female ones got put on ice after the 'female characters do less damage' bullshit). I gave it a chance and was let down.
Here's hoping Mr Ragnar Tornquist's 'Secret World' mmo doesn't share AoC's shortcomings.
What was a 'must buy' for me after 'Dreamfall' etc... is now a nervously optimistic wishlist item.
I just don't get all the hate against Funcom - if you lack the skill to play it, don't!
Great game even though the game is not what was "promised", but should be the promised land within a year or so.
Haters should go and hug WAR instead and enjoy the "content".
what the fu#$?! hahah lack the skill? what skill to playing AoC? Who ever can get off the best combos first skill? or the now who ever has the best gemmed gear skill?
Expansions only ruin level based fames.
I don't usually post on the forums, I just like to read them. That having been said; I kind of like AOC.
It runs really well on my computer (3.0e8400, 4gigram, 260gtx). I don't have any performance issues w/ all settings to max on a 1920x1200 monitor. I don't know what kind of rigs people w/ performance issues are playing on, but perhaps a new game requires new components. I do get 1 or 2 lag spikes on a 6-8 hour session, but thats livable. I do crash once or twice w/in the same period of time. Compared to most MMO's I've played, that's acceptable (to me) , and I've played 'em all.
This is some major bashing of a decent game. Just opinions i know, but geesh.
GL Failcom, I mean Funcom!
Read the tech forums sometime, maybe. People with comps better than yours can barely run the game, if at all. The "you comp sucks" argument fails in relation to this game.
I beta tested it and really had high hopes for it after the performance patch. I recently started playing it again and expected to see even more improvements since the release. But,it turned out i expected way too much of them. The memory leaks(gray map) along with the lag is still present. They continue to nerf the classes "for the sake of pvp". What PvP? Constant ganking? I can overlook all the technical issues of a new game. I,however, cannot overlook the lack of community and team based driven content. Guilds are practically useless and player cities serve no real purpose besides being a waste of space. No player housing at all. Did i mention that cities are instanced? Where the fuck is the fun in that? All in all, this is just another disappointing MMO title.
The re-roll plan to fun in AoC has a limited lifespan. Trust me, I did this, too. I played my DT up to L55 and decided to shelf him when the only quest available was White Hand Officers. I then rolled a PoM and lo and behold, she got to L55 with the only quest available being White Hand Officers. I then rolled Guardian, but I really couldn't stomach going through Connall's Valley or the Wild Lands yet again, doing the same stuff. Oh, and did I mention that all this was done back in May/June when they first promised the additional L50+ content?
Failcom is the same as Wimpy from the old Popeye cartoons. Remember his famous line? "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." In case you couldn't guess, Tuesday never seems to come around.
Most the posters in this thread probably don't even play the game because their computer's aren't up to date. So, they simply decided to hop onto the hater band wagon after sitting there all day just trying to install the damn thing. The game just launced, almost every launch is not nearly as glorious as ya'll apparently think it is or should be. I agree that the game lacks end game content, and that there are bugs, but give funcom some time to address the problem, and other problems that may arise. Keyword being there is TIME. From reading most threads I get this feeling that you people believe a game should be perfect at launch, with barely any bugs and 25 man raids. All this flaming on AOC is unnecessary considering how young the game is. Oh wow, you say population is subsizing? AOC's current population is 3x that of WoW at launch, even with all the negativity AOC has to deal with it's kicking harder than Chuck Norris. I understand you guys have nothing else to do but cry and cry some more, and I also understand that it comes naturally, but STFU already, K THNX.
I'm curious to see how the community will react to WAR, because cearly MMO gamers are a tough crowd.
"Everything the light touches is our kingdom" -- Mufasa
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Personally, my computer is 3 years old, and it ran the game just fine. Also, I have no expectation that the game would be perfect right at launch, but I would expect it to improve with each patch. That is where most of the player base has a beef with Failcom. Patches after launch for the most part dealt with things that were mostly insignificant to the core game itself (emotes? c'mon) or they made changes that made the gameplay suck (Cistern/Master System bosses, anyone?). Then there's a whole laundry list of issues that were known during beta, which were not addressed. I'd hazard a guess that many remain unaddressed.
Yeah, time is all anyone ever needs to evenually home in on a target, but Failcom's running out of it as players bail on this title. When you consider that they've been working on this title since 2003, the "they just need more time" argument doesn't really seem to fly all that well. At least with Anarchy Online, they had the decency not to charge players for the first few months of post-launch beta testing.
The only way to get people to "STFU already" as you so eloquently put it is for Failcom to actually walk their talk and resolve the issues that people complain about.
i don't wish to flame unabashed, nor to i wish to be deluded and not acknowledge the fact that the game is largely a disappointment. it's confusing to pay for and play a game with the issues AoC has, week after week the corrections/bug fixes/adjustments all focus on relatively inconsequential issues compared to what a person would expect to be top priorities.
i was fortunate to join a very good guild at release which spared me the hell of lack of content to level, i was simply power leveled. and the time at 80 has been spent raiding and open world pvping. it was great while it lasted. but my guild, and server, are loosing ppl everyday. the only way to survive in AoC is with a strong posse.
i tried out WAR and was reminded how much the real time combat in AoC meant to me. i don't really like WAR compared to what AoC could be, but you need the 'massive' to make it an MMO and my massive is moving to WAR for the most part.
for the record: my mmo resume is very short, but having been introduced to the genre by wow, i found it very disappointing that Hyboria was only as big as whatever zone you were in. i don't know if it's too much to expect the full continent environment you existed in when you were in wow, but that really detracted from the experience for me.
i can only guess that if some computers, of same general performance level, are having tech problems and some aren't, that it is driver compatability that is causing the trouble? I'm really only a novice when it comes to such things. Why else would my computer run the game fine, and another SIMILAR computer not??
I played VG for almost a year, suffered through MAJOR technical/performance issues because I liked the game, issues that put Conan's problems to shame.....So I ask myself, do I like Conan as much as I did VG. Not really, but I'm having no trouble with Conan. Where does this leave me? I'm gonna go give WAR a try.
I hope its a joke, cause they have ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT of work to do already with the original game, this makes me discusted... OMG
I dont care if I get flamed for this but AoC has its issues like any other MMO but compared to the other dozen MMO's I have played the launch IMO was good enough and better than I expected and so far for 3 months the game has taken up all my gaming time and taken me away from EVE as well. The issues I have with the game are:
* Grouping - please introduce automatic grouping and summon. Its a simple fix and it would improve the game 100%. Its frustrating when you see people LFM's and you are too far away to join in even if you wanted to.
* Crafting items at your level or lower: Big issue with this as you can only craft items at your level or lower. I think it should be open for anyone at any level so a level 10 player can follow a crafter's life instead of
*Some CTD's but it comes and goes and mostly doesnt happen.
However there is a great deal more positives in this game for me and since my rig can run it at high spec and still get 40fps it looks amazing. I have 3x level 60 characters and still enjoy the leveling. On my server the population is more than enough, cant speak for others.
Fact is WAR will come out with the same bugs and issues and once again we will see it get flamed. The key factor is that any player who is enjoying the game isn't on these forums as they are too buys playing. I already feel sorry for WAR's launch.
Are these people takeing the piss, improved group content, what groups????
Most people have left already and it is nearly imposible to find a partner let alone a group, i'm currently on the Bloodrand server and was in one of the largest raiding guilds there but the guild is no more, people have left the game simple because Funcom don't fix whats broken.
This is a good game, Ooops, did I say is a good game, I meant to say was, you need people to play it first before you can even call it a game.
Don't get me wrong, I like this game, I have 3xlvl80's 2xlvl70's and the rest are between 30 to 50, and I don't realy care about DX10 or even a expansion, I simple want to be able to play with other people or even solo in a fairly bug free MMO, thats all I want.
After the last patch about 50% of the comments all contained the same line "Closeing my account" you would think that Funcom would take note.
I realy can't say how much more I can put up with myself before I leave the game as well but one thing is sure and that is if thay don't do anything major about the problems before War or WoTLK arrive I feel we can say goodbye to AoC.
I hear ya Bass and I left Vanguard because it was a ghost town just like PotBS and TR in the end. However so far the RP-PvP server I am on (aquillonia) is still pretty busy and I get a group or at least group up with a couple of player pretty easily. I think its more successful on the EU servers than anywhere else. Thing is I hear the same thing in my guild and other guilds and that is people are enjoying the game but there is a large majority waiting until WAR comes out and the rest are watching Funcom closely to see if they add / improve a lot of the game. Funcom needs to push out a lot of 'great' content and fixes quickly and get word of mouth going that the game is improving and quickly. I enjoy it a lot still but I know post 65 I am going to get frustrated with not being able to play the best dungeons because the players may not be there.
2nd - as a crafter at heart I hate working on my skills to find out there is no one there to buy my freakin goods!!! I was so mad with Vanguard because I maxed out crafting and made several server unique items only to see them rot on the market...very sad.
An average game is a great game with loads of people playing.
Well I personally have had no memory errors or crashes of any kind... so far. I did upgrade my PC in late April mostly for being able to play this game, also becuase my last major upgrade was Nov 2004.
It's amazing how everyone whines about what Funcom hasn't done but won't speak about what they have done.
More voiceovers have been added, since many complained that after Tortage there were no more.
Certain dungeons were revamped to make them more challenging. The "inspired by WoW" boss they mentioned is not a tank-n-spank. If you don't have 2 high dps players keeping the minions from sacrificing themselves he is unkillable. Course doing that you have 2 less dps on the boss himself. Loot tables were upgraded as well.
They made resource gathering a bit easier, especially in the resource zones.
Those are just a few examples. Is the game perfect? No of course not. WoW wasn't perfect at launch either and took Blizzard months to get things relatively stable (stuck while looting bug, server's crashing, queues, etc). So ok you're bubble been burst and AoC isn't the Gem of Perfection you all hoped it would be. There are enough people enjoying it now so it's not going to the bargain bin anytime soon.
Why does Funcom have to be such.. well you know, douches? I really wanted to like Age of Conan when it was first coming out. With every word out of their mouths another nail goes into their coffin. Some one really needs to buy them out.
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'Cry Havoc, and Let Loose the Dogs of WARRRRR!!!'
Suprised Woody or Avery aren't here leading the crusade to defend the failure, unless I missed them when scrolling through. It could have been an amazing game. They screwed the pooch in my opinion, no expansion with just one area and a couple new dungeon techniques that pissed me off when they were implimented on WoW.
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Sniper is another term for unorthodox surgeon.
The paid for expansion will be when the DX10 gfx show their face.
For me, the PvP system is one of the main reasons I left. i am all for being able to PK anyone you choose, but, having max level players camping the entry level zones and PKing everyone is just pathetic.
A lack of a consequence system from the word go is a fault for this one.
Most of the problems the game is suffering from could/should have been resolved in Beta.
I have enjoyed my time in AoC. I have several characters at level ~60. Warhammer is where I am going. I am unlikely to go back to AoC. There are too many other MMOs out there that I have promised myself I will return to (WOW, EQII, Vanguard).
Did you ever see that drunken pirate walk from the pub/ship in Tortage and take a leak in the Sea? Gotta be a classic MMO moment
Orly? How can you throw even more resources to try and sell what has proven a completely failure. I doubt Funcom will ever manage to clear their name and that of Conan ever. Who is going to buy this expansion? What are they thinking?