Because I don't like how the world is created, feels like I'm entering instances. I recall clicking on a gate and it asked if I wanted to enter the world on hard mode or somethign like that, or solo mode. Not sure the terminology but it feels odd.
I really liked the expansion. However they haven't fixed the Herold of Xotli bug where if one goes into demon form it changes my hair style.
Well, it could be fixed by now but I just wrote customer service to see if they did indeed fix it as well as comment on how horrible there site was for getting my password and they not only didn't answer my question they told me that I needed to supply proof that the account was mine.
Even though I explicitly said that I was just commenting on how their site handeld my password retrievel.
I've never had luck with their customer service.
They have really bad customer service, I got billed for 2 months after I canceled my sub and it took me caling visa. I had to call visa and do a charge back. I had to eventually cancel that card yes that is how bad that was.
Now for the hairstyle bug as of october it sill existed. I just thought it was me.
Man you guys are sour... I don't need naked 3d breast's or carnage, I'm just saying it's a nice game compared to allot of the crap that out there and I am surprised more people don't play.
Failcom did pretty much every mistake you could do in the Launch timeframe of an MMORPG. I was there. There was a ton of people for Launch. But due to Failcom's incompetence and denial of things, they lost us all.
Do forum searches for AoC going back to its launch. I won't list all the idiotic things Failcom screwed up on. It'll just raise my blood pressure when I'm on a good mood. But a search will show more than enough reasons as to why I would never go back to such a screwed up company and game.
For so much hype over it, it completely failed to deliver. Oh and the breasts? Pffft. That got censored too. It's fine to show limbs and heads getting lopped off, disemboweled and butchered corpses, but man, you can't show breasts. Hell, even the artbook in AoC's Collector's Edition box gave their justifications for censoring the game.
Failcom may very well have changed things and fixed the game up. But why would I ever go back to them and their game when I've been burned by them already? I forked out good money getting the Collector's Edition as well as several months of subscription. It was also a chore just trying to find a way to cancel (alot of obstacles in the way to do so). For me to go back to a company that provided that kind of service is foolish.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
Man you guys are sour... I don't need naked 3d breast's or carnage, I'm just saying it's a nice game compared to allot of the crap that out there and I am surprised more people don't play.
Maybe, but it got advertised as a carnagefest with naked breasts, and even your own OP mentions that stereotype again.
Not that many people are interested in carnagefests.
Man you guys are sour... I don't need naked 3d breast's or carnage, I'm just saying it's a nice game compared to allot of the crap that out there and I am surprised more people don't play.
Maybe, but it got advertised as a carnagefest with naked breasts, and even your own OP mentions that stereotype again.
Not that many people are interested in carnagefests.
That's probably true. As what the other poster indicated that they were not fans of the setting.
The one thing I think they did 'more right' was to make it bloody and more like the pulp fiction roots that conan grew from.
But then that does narrow their playerbase a bit.
Like Skyrim? Need more content? Try my Skyrim mod "Godfred's Tomb."
Ahh what the hell i will resub to it tonight. Nothing better to play anyways for another 4 to 5 months. This will keep me busy.
Who could have thought that WOW could bring super power like USA to its knees?
Originally posted by Arcken
To put it in a nutshell, our society is about to hit the fan, grades are dropping, obesity is going up,childhood the USA is going to lose its super power status before too long, but hey, as long as we have a cheap method to babysit our kids, all will be well no? Im picking on WoW btw because its the beast that made all of this possible
The main reason I stopped playing is because the game stopped being entertaining for me. The setting, while based on one that I enjoy reading about, falls far short of Howard's own universe. It is just missing that something that Howard's books had, and as a result the setting wasn't enough to pull me in. Followed with a game system that I didn't enjoy once past the novelty of it, ahd they stuck with the original design for combat it might've been something cool, but as it stands their design boiled down to taking that which has worked for years and added a nonsensical layer which detracted from my own personal enjoyment of the game as a whole.
Ahh what the hell i will resub to it tonight. Nothing better to play anyways for another 4 to 5 months. This will keep me busy.
Just be warned, it feels like playing in an empty world. I had 10 free days to play and while I enjoyed my time I hardly saw anyone else playing. Lovely world, just no one there
I played the game, but I didn't get the impression that I was in Conan's world if that makes sense. I found the world itself pretty interesting, but inconsistent. You would have interesting quests and characters, follows by uninspired plain old leveling. The graphics would alternate between really cool and really bad. The models or the textures used would make mobs look like cardboard cutouts in some areas. Also, it felt like it should have been a sandbox instead of a themepark. I don't play sandbox games much, but that's the impression I got from AoC.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
I don't know why more ppl don't play it... I know why I quit 2 times already, simply because they refused to revamp my class. Yeah I have 3 level 80's ... but my Guardian was always my personal favorite and despite all the guard players crying and begging in the forums they didn't nothing to improve them for a long time, well I've read the last patch notes and it seems the Guards got some new stuff but I don't know if it's as good as the revamp on Assassins was.
I love the game, I kept my sub for as long as I could but there's a limit to how much nerfing I can take and to me enough was enough so I quit, I actually thought on coming back for the 3rd time this month but instead I decided to go with FFXIV ( no flaming please :P ). Might return someday, but with all that's coming in 2011 I don't know if AoC has what it takes to pull me back.
I played on a PvP server and I did not feel like grinding to stay competitive. I bought the game originally for a game that put little emphasis on gear, and they turned it into precisely the opposite.
i have been actually keen on going back to aoc, and i am going to give it a try at some point ... before GW2 gets released. i got bored with the game before, thats why i left.. i was one of the hard core pvp guys who got burned at later on. so i had a break from the game. then i tried to come back only to see that no one is playing the game anymore ... i guess thats the reason why im not playing this game anymore... the fact that the world is empty... believe me when i say that i want to come back since im big fan of conan and the lore, and i think the game did lot of things right. combat is awesome .. i would love to see other games have the same combat with all those combos and stuff.
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Just before Xmas I just paid for another year sub and got a good deal. These days I do not play as often as I do some other games. The game has been loaded on my Hard Drive for like 3.5 yrs. Sometimes you just come to a natural end if the updates don't come regularly and they have slowed a little with AoC. Mainly due to back end stuff like updating engine and developer tools ironically to be able to provide quicker updates in the future. I love the lore and the setting and this is mainly what has kept me subbed. I have never seen a better looking game and soak up the atmosphere everytime I play. With the new expansion lands I find myself easily getting lost in exploring however, the grind is a bit meaty. If I am ever thinking about which game to play in spare time i'll fire this up and then log in
I just checked my account page and to date I have spend $446 in subscription fees to the game! holy smokes! Beats the $230 paid for lifetime sub to STO and the lifetime for LOTRO lol.
I would like to see AoC go F2P taking the best bits of LOTRO, DDO and STO benefits for those long term subbers. It has to be done right, with the right benefits and recognition for the existing people and be decent enough to lure in the F2P'rs. I don't think Funcom can slap a free Tortage with microtransaction in and be done with it - it has to be more than that. This would get more people playing. The launch definately put people off. But you know what I was reading somewhere, maybe it was Lord British who said it but from tracking they reckoned 90'000 new people are introduced to the world of MMO's every few months. With this in mind there are obviously more people out there that have not tried it than have. With the way the game looks and sounds it holds up very well in todays market, but that doesn't make a game complete, so I hope 2011 brings what the people want.
I love the game, It is really impressive. My primary issue is that No-One plays. Really boring when you are running into the same 20 level 80s in PvP events. Its a shame because the game is awesome.
I enjoyed it to max level. Then I got bored and quit. The graphics were great. I loved the combat and the blood. As far as boobs, I used to piss off my group mates because I wouldn't flash my tits at them. If they want to look at tits they can chase some bar maid around, I'm not slut (LOL).
The expansion is kind of interesting but not for me. I get bored quickly these days with faction grinds. Also, all my friends that I joined with quit so that put a damper on things. Ofcourse, I made some other friends in my guild...there were a cool bunch of guys. But in the end I just felt like a loner in the game. Everyone was either grinding pvp or raiding. I'm more of the home maker and explorer type.
My guild pretty much used ventrilo which was very handy in raids. But as far as RP goes, my normal male voice didn't really fit how my character looked and certainly not my female toon. So the rp fell on a kind of flat note for me.
I think like several games around here it has some great, unexplored potential. But ultimately either a lack of funding or ideas or some combination of the two prevents the game from greatness.
I don't play it because of the horrible launch. That and the fact that I have absolutely zero interest in going back, not even in the slightest pull. Unlike some other games where they have drawn me back expansion after expansion. I've been going back & forth between EQ and WoW in the past few years. Some games just draw you back and you miss it after awhile. I never had that feeling with AoC.
Why don't more people play Age of Conan ? I know it had a bad start but it's pretty nice now. It has the best grafix by far +Carnage, blood, fatalities, naked breast's, and in my opinion, the bet starting area, finest combat structure and least boring quest of all. The raids are fun and the expansion was nice. The planned content sounds good to. I have played Aion and beta tested Rift, DCU, and others but never found a replacement for this game......So my question is why don't you play? ....Poor PC ? Sour from launch ? Not enough advertising or hype ?
One word Funcom i will NEVER spend another dime of my gaming money with those crooks.Crap releases for quick cash grabs,worse customer service of ANY gaming company and I have about played all the mmogs on the market they are rude,conning thiefs the day funcom goes under will be the day I do a happy dance.
I played AoC at the start. Its release really wasn’t as bad as many games were. WoW actually had more issues than I remember AoC having. AoC at least kept a fairly stable network online during its release, which for me, can be the absolute killer on an MMO having a bad release (Look at Anarchy Online or WWII Online at release for examples).
The reason I stopped playing it was that around level 30 something, the game just decided to stop producing any kind of content. All the mobs were either too low to waste time on or too high to stand a chance against and all the quests ran dry.
The second that happened, I got bored. I tend to get bored pretty fast in an MMO unless they have something to grip me and AoC failed that part.
The other reason I no longer play is the reason I will no longer re-subscribe. They may have fixed and added features, but I will not join an MMO after its been released for a year or more.
For me, the enjoyment is in the journey. I enjoy the process of leveling a character up. Other players also doing the same make me feel like I am really in a living, breathing world. Hearing the newbie questions in chat, or seeing dozens of people gather in the town I’m walking through, trying to sell their scrap loot all make me feel “in the game”. New players also have that same sense as you and it feels like you are all exploring the world together.
An MMO that’s been out for a year+ loses that. The only chat spam are the experienced players talking about things you will never see or hear of for weeks to come. Any question you have has more than likely been answered and there’s no sense of exploration left in ether the world or the game play. Most of the players left at your low level are just alts with their other level 80 characters waiting to reward them with a bunch of gear and equipment later on. And these players just breeze throuh the quests or grind a spawn until they level up.
The only MMOs that get around this somewhat are the skill-based ones that have people constantly juggling their skills so that there’s almost always people slaughtering those bunnies outside the city wall in order to skill-up. At least those give the illusion that you aren’t alone. AoC has levels though. Thsi means that once you're done with an area, you're done with it. There's no reason to go back.
played it since beta, had a huge guild on a pvp server for along time. then the populations dropped because nothing to do at max level. tons of people left the game servers became ghost towns. quit like everybody else and allways knew this game had so much potential but failed to deliver.
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They have really bad customer service, I got billed for 2 months after I canceled my sub and it took me caling visa. I had to call visa and do a charge back. I had to eventually cancel that card yes that is how bad that was.
Now for the hairstyle bug as of october it sill existed. I just thought it was me.
Failcom did pretty much every mistake you could do in the Launch timeframe of an MMORPG. I was there. There was a ton of people for Launch. But due to Failcom's incompetence and denial of things, they lost us all.
Do forum searches for AoC going back to its launch. I won't list all the idiotic things Failcom screwed up on. It'll just raise my blood pressure when I'm on a good mood. But a search will show more than enough reasons as to why I would never go back to such a screwed up company and game.
For so much hype over it, it completely failed to deliver. Oh and the breasts? Pffft. That got censored too. It's fine to show limbs and heads getting lopped off, disemboweled and butchered corpses, but man, you can't show breasts. Hell, even the artbook in AoC's Collector's Edition box gave their justifications for censoring the game.
Failcom may very well have changed things and fixed the game up. But why would I ever go back to them and their game when I've been burned by them already? I forked out good money getting the Collector's Edition as well as several months of subscription. It was also a chore just trying to find a way to cancel (alot of obstacles in the way to do so). For me to go back to a company that provided that kind of service is foolish.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
Maybe, but it got advertised as a carnagefest with naked breasts, and even your own OP mentions that stereotype again.
Not that many people are interested in carnagefests.
i am not a fan of the setting.
Guild Wars 2 is my religion
That's probably true. As what the other poster indicated that they were not fans of the setting.
The one thing I think they did 'more right' was to make it bloody and more like the pulp fiction roots that conan grew from.
But then that does narrow their playerbase a bit.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Ahh what the hell i will resub to it tonight. Nothing better to play anyways for another 4 to 5 months. This will keep me busy.
Who could have thought that WOW could bring super power like USA to its knees?
Originally posted by Arcken
To put it in a nutshell, our society is about to hit the fan, grades are dropping, obesity is going up,childhood the USA is going to lose its super power status before too long, but hey, as long as we have a cheap method to babysit our kids, all will be well no?
Im picking on WoW btw because its the beast that made all of this possible
The main reason I stopped playing is because the game stopped being entertaining for me. The setting, while based on one that I enjoy reading about, falls far short of Howard's own universe. It is just missing that something that Howard's books had, and as a result the setting wasn't enough to pull me in. Followed with a game system that I didn't enjoy once past the novelty of it, ahd they stuck with the original design for combat it might've been something cool, but as it stands their design boiled down to taking that which has worked for years and added a nonsensical layer which detracted from my own personal enjoyment of the game as a whole.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
It's got nothing to do with the movies, homes. It's based on the original stories... unlike 90% of the movies.
Just be warned, it feels like playing in an empty world. I had 10 free days to play and while I enjoyed my time I hardly saw anyone else playing. Lovely world, just no one there
Tried it for the first month at launch but the launch problems were and issue and it just didn't pull me in.
I played the game, but I didn't get the impression that I was in Conan's world if that makes sense. I found the world itself pretty interesting, but inconsistent. You would have interesting quests and characters, follows by uninspired plain old leveling. The graphics would alternate between really cool and really bad. The models or the textures used would make mobs look like cardboard cutouts in some areas. Also, it felt like it should have been a sandbox instead of a themepark. I don't play sandbox games much, but that's the impression I got from AoC.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
the only reason i didn't play it or actually i did but my computer was a piece of crap at the time but i actually love the game
i Got artifacts from that game, and that game only. I used SLI enhancer and it still did nothing unless I turned shadows completely off.
To the caterpillar it is the end of the world, to the master, it is a butterfly.
I don't know why more ppl don't play it... I know why I quit 2 times already, simply because they refused to revamp my class. Yeah I have 3 level 80's ... but my Guardian was always my personal favorite and despite all the guard players crying and begging in the forums they didn't nothing to improve them for a long time, well I've read the last patch notes and it seems the Guards got some new stuff but I don't know if it's as good as the revamp on Assassins was.
I love the game, I kept my sub for as long as I could but there's a limit to how much nerfing I can take and to me enough was enough so I quit, I actually thought on coming back for the 3rd time this month but instead I decided to go with FFXIV ( no flaming please :P ). Might return someday, but with all that's coming in 2011 I don't know if AoC has what it takes to pull me back.
Playing:
RIFT, EU Blightweald Server
Waiting to see:
ToR, TERA, GW2
Gear/AA dependency.
I played on a PvP server and I did not feel like grinding to stay competitive. I bought the game originally for a game that put little emphasis on gear, and they turned it into precisely the opposite.
answering the OP here only
i have been actually keen on going back to aoc, and i am going to give it a try at some point ... before GW2 gets released. i got bored with the game before, thats why i left.. i was one of the hard core pvp guys who got burned at later on. so i had a break from the game. then i tried to come back only to see that no one is playing the game anymore ... i guess thats the reason why im not playing this game anymore... the fact that the world is empty... believe me when i say that i want to come back since im big fan of conan and the lore, and i think the game did lot of things right. combat is awesome .. i would love to see other games have the same combat with all those combos and stuff.
Just before Xmas I just paid for another year sub and got a good deal. These days I do not play as often as I do some other games. The game has been loaded on my Hard Drive for like 3.5 yrs. Sometimes you just come to a natural end if the updates don't come regularly and they have slowed a little with AoC. Mainly due to back end stuff like updating engine and developer tools ironically to be able to provide quicker updates in the future. I love the lore and the setting and this is mainly what has kept me subbed. I have never seen a better looking game and soak up the atmosphere everytime I play. With the new expansion lands I find myself easily getting lost in exploring however, the grind is a bit meaty. If I am ever thinking about which game to play in spare time i'll fire this up and then log in
I just checked my account page and to date I have spend $446 in subscription fees to the game! holy smokes! Beats the $230 paid for lifetime sub to STO and the lifetime for LOTRO lol.
I would like to see AoC go F2P taking the best bits of LOTRO, DDO and STO benefits for those long term subbers. It has to be done right, with the right benefits and recognition for the existing people and be decent enough to lure in the F2P'rs. I don't think Funcom can slap a free Tortage with microtransaction in and be done with it - it has to be more than that. This would get more people playing. The launch definately put people off. But you know what I was reading somewhere, maybe it was Lord British who said it but from tracking they reckoned 90'000 new people are introduced to the world of MMO's every few months. With this in mind there are obviously more people out there that have not tried it than have. With the way the game looks and sounds it holds up very well in todays market, but that doesn't make a game complete, so I hope 2011 brings what the people want.
I love the game, It is really impressive. My primary issue is that No-One plays. Really boring when you are running into the same 20 level 80s in PvP events. Its a shame because the game is awesome.
~D~
I enjoyed it to max level. Then I got bored and quit. The graphics were great. I loved the combat and the blood. As far as boobs, I used to piss off my group mates because I wouldn't flash my tits at them. If they want to look at tits they can chase some bar maid around, I'm not slut (LOL).
The expansion is kind of interesting but not for me. I get bored quickly these days with faction grinds. Also, all my friends that I joined with quit so that put a damper on things. Ofcourse, I made some other friends in my guild...there were a cool bunch of guys. But in the end I just felt like a loner in the game. Everyone was either grinding pvp or raiding. I'm more of the home maker and explorer type.
My guild pretty much used ventrilo which was very handy in raids. But as far as RP goes, my normal male voice didn't really fit how my character looked and certainly not my female toon. So the rp fell on a kind of flat note for me.
I think like several games around here it has some great, unexplored potential. But ultimately either a lack of funding or ideas or some combination of the two prevents the game from greatness.
I don't play it because of the horrible launch. That and the fact that I have absolutely zero interest in going back, not even in the slightest pull. Unlike some other games where they have drawn me back expansion after expansion. I've been going back & forth between EQ and WoW in the past few years. Some games just draw you back and you miss it after awhile. I never had that feeling with AoC.
So yes, a bad launch is just that devastating.
EQ1-AC1-DAOC-FFXI-L2-EQ2-WoW-DDO-GW-LoTR-VG-WAR-GW2-ESO
1st IMPRESSIONS!!!!!!!
After a bad launch most people that have a bad 1st impression will not try the game again.
This also works in the real world too. Think about a bad restaurant you tried you most likely will never go back.
Some day MMo companies will learn and release a game that is finished.
One word Funcom i will NEVER spend another dime of my gaming money with those crooks.Crap releases for quick cash grabs,worse customer service of ANY gaming company and I have about played all the mmogs on the market they are rude,conning thiefs the day funcom goes under will be the day I do a happy dance.
I played AoC at the start. Its release really wasn’t as bad as many games were. WoW actually had more issues than I remember AoC having. AoC at least kept a fairly stable network online during its release, which for me, can be the absolute killer on an MMO having a bad release (Look at Anarchy Online or WWII Online at release for examples).
The reason I stopped playing it was that around level 30 something, the game just decided to stop producing any kind of content. All the mobs were either too low to waste time on or too high to stand a chance against and all the quests ran dry.
The second that happened, I got bored. I tend to get bored pretty fast in an MMO unless they have something to grip me and AoC failed that part.
The other reason I no longer play is the reason I will no longer re-subscribe. They may have fixed and added features, but I will not join an MMO after its been released for a year or more.
For me, the enjoyment is in the journey. I enjoy the process of leveling a character up. Other players also doing the same make me feel like I am really in a living, breathing world. Hearing the newbie questions in chat, or seeing dozens of people gather in the town I’m walking through, trying to sell their scrap loot all make me feel “in the game”. New players also have that same sense as you and it feels like you are all exploring the world together.
An MMO that’s been out for a year+ loses that. The only chat spam are the experienced players talking about things you will never see or hear of for weeks to come. Any question you have has more than likely been answered and there’s no sense of exploration left in ether the world or the game play. Most of the players left at your low level are just alts with their other level 80 characters waiting to reward them with a bunch of gear and equipment later on. And these players just breeze throuh the quests or grind a spawn until they level up.
The only MMOs that get around this somewhat are the skill-based ones that have people constantly juggling their skills so that there’s almost always people slaughtering those bunnies outside the city wall in order to skill-up. At least those give the illusion that you aren’t alone. AoC has levels though. Thsi means that once you're done with an area, you're done with it. There's no reason to go back.
I gave it 3 chances, the last being when they screwed with my credit card in ways I don't much like.
2nd MMO company to do it, neither of which I repeat service with.
Nowadays it seems hackers and spammers are innudating all of us since we signed our accounts to BatleNet.
Pretty much wondering what legal action to take.
AoC, no. Don't mess with my funds.
played it since beta, had a huge guild on a pvp server for along time. then the populations dropped because nothing to do at max level. tons of people left the game servers became ghost towns. quit like everybody else and allways knew this game had so much potential but failed to deliver.