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SyrusSyi · February 2011

Is this game still worth playing?

if so

How is the player base in it?

SyrusSyi · February 2011

Ok Thanks for Awesering

Hekel · February 2011

if you want to play on Crom(EU) then the answer is Yes.

the server is full of player,at everylevel minigame starts and there's a raid/istance every 5 minute.

on Fury or the RP servers the situation is much more different.kinda empty servers,a lot of people is moving from them to Crom.

i don't know the US servers situation,so i can't help,but if you want to play on the EU AoC then i assure you that if you play on Crom you'll find it full of players,at every hour.

chopstix906 · February 2011

The US servers are similar. If you're looking for a PvE server, like Wicanna, then you're in luck. It's thriving. If you're a pvp person, then I'm sorry to say you're out of luck. Cimmeria has a decent population but Tyranny (my server =/) is a ghost town. PvP for the game in general is not that great because the game Director insists on ignoring their pvp player base. I wouldn't completely ignore the game, though, because it is very promising.

exumafly · February 2011

well I recently subbed, and found only 1 newb person on cimmeria and 3 on wiccana, when I checked the official forums which I can only read, they are talking about how the population is dropping even further.

Wait till it goes F2P but with there model of being able to buy superior equipment that bugs me

Sarcose · February 2011

I feel like if they are going to go F2P they are going to wait as long as possible and squeeze as many subs out as they can, particularly because it has one of the cheapest subs on the market. F2P saved LOTRO's butt, but they didn't wait until the game was almost completely dead to do it. AoC isn't going to have enough people who are willing to say it's good when it goes F2P, unless Funcom pulls out all the stops in marketing.

And they're not going to do that, because I'm getting emails about their new DotA clone. They don't care about AoC anymore, which saddens me, because it will always be my favorite MMO.

eye_m · February 2011

I play on the Set server and the player base during my playtime hours is reasonable. It is not jam packed or anything, but there are always people running about and global chat is always active. I don't group a whole lot except for raids so LFG doesn't happen much for me. I would recommend finding a guild, as you then have people with a vested interest in helping you out if needed.

I am in one of the larger guilds and we have around 2500 toons in the guild, plus we have an alt guild with another 500+ toons in it. There are several guilds of similar size to ours as well.

End game raiding is still very big in AoC, I see hundreds of PUGS each week.

Worstluck · March 2011

Originally posted by ReallyNow10

Originally posted by Worstluck

No one can answer you because no one is playing........

No but seriously it's hard to get a good answer, some fanboys will come in here and tell you the population is great, and someone else will come in and tell you the game is dead. From what I have heard from friends that played it is that pop is not so great, but take that with a grain of salt. There appears to only be 2-3 servers currently.

Someone started a rumor that there was going to be a new server called the "Saddur Server". This true?

No idea sorry. I don't play AoC anymore. Saddur was that slavemaster boss right? I cannot remember. I only played AoC very briefly, I actually kind of liked the game, but got caught up with other games and quit. Don't know if I will ever go back though, not a huge fan of Funcom Might try it out if they do end up going F2P, something like Anarchy Online's freemium model.

Destiny2010 · March 2011

Originally posted by ReallyNow10

Originally posted by Worstluck

No one can answer you because no one is playing........

No but seriously it's hard to get a good answer, some fanboys will come in here and tell you the population is great, and someone else will come in and tell you the game is dead. From what I have heard from friends that played it is that pop is not so great, but take that with a grain of salt. There appears to only be 2-3 servers currently.

Someone started a rumor that there was going to be a new server called the "Saddur Server". This true?

No new servers coming, unless its the "Blood & Glory" pvp server coming in May. Name is unknown as far as I know.

finaticd · March 2011

Originally posted by chopstix906
The US servers are similar. If you're looking for a PvE server, like Wicanna, then you're in luck. It's thriving. If you're a pvp person, then I'm sorry to say you're out of luck. Cimmeria has a decent population but Tyranny (my server =/) is a ghost town. PvP for the game in general is not that great because the game Director insists on ignoring their pvp player base. I wouldn't completely ignore the game, though, because it is very promising.

The PvE servers are also having population issues. The expansion released two buggy bosses and called it tier 4 and nothing since, so PvE players have been leaving en mass since the expansion, PvPers already left but i do miss those monthly posts by craig saying that pvp is going to get addressed and farming rocks and trees for honor points and PvP gear was working well. Dang it has been a long wait for pvp stuff.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=2920605&postcount=4

Wicanna is like a ghost town now. Population has been halved in the last month.

http://forums.ageofconan.com/showpost.php?p=2920608&postcount=5

Set is the same way. Prolly a bit worse off than Wiccana.

quasar941 · March 2011

I just resubbed a couple of weeks ago just to see how much things have changed since I last played a year ago and Set is indeed a ghost town. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of other players I ran into while questing. If not for the channel chatter, it was like I was playing a single player game. Things might be a little better at the higher levels though since the pop seems to be top heavy. I dont know for sure since my highest toon is 64 but all those people on the channels had to be somewhere in the game and it wasn't anywhere I was ever at so I'm guessing endgame content areas.

I'm willing to bet real $$ that Rift is going to take a huge and permanent chunk out of AoC's population.

LuckyDucky · March 2011

Originally posted by onirim It's just a question of style, and 90% of the players prefer high-fantasy games.

90% of gamers prefer a generic high fantasy game environment? Then I am in the 10% minority because that is the least of my gaming preference. I am not sure which genre I have had the my fill of more, high fantasy or first person shooter.

Hekel · March 2011

Originally posted by LuckyDucky

Originally posted by onirim It's just a question of style, and 90% of the players prefer high-fantasy games.

90% of gamers prefer a generic high fantasy game environment? Then I am in the 10% minority because that is the least of my gaming preference. I am not sure which genre I have had the my fill of more, high fantasy or first person shooter.

/signed!

i do hate every other tipe of kiddy lore!

all this elfs,dwarf,gnome,shiny tiny stupid armor,blue trees with purple leafs and all this bullshits!

AOC is not dead,not even close to death!

i play on CROM(EU)and it's bloody full of people! 2 days ago i had to wait a lot of time a boss respawn because people continued to steal it from me!

Khemi's square is always full of people(at every hour),idem OT and Conarch.

minigame starts at everyhour(the lvl 80one)and with a little patiente even the lower one!

i don't know the US situation nor the PVP EU situation,but on CROM it's just a lot of fun!

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