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Hi all,
Just wanted to briefly share my thoughts on this game.
I started playing two weeks ago and think that Funcom have done very well to create an immersive world with a challanging combat system.
My initial thought was that the game's combat system did not have much substance. However after giving it a good shot and getting involved in some PvP I realised that I didn't understand its intricate details.
I also can not believe the landscapes (particularly Cimmeria). Yes, graphics are not everything but this game just makes you want to venture out and explore every nook and cranny of the world.
I don't know what Funcom did in the past however judging by the reaction of the player base they made some pretty big mistakes - and paid for it.
I guess it pays to join when the dust has settled.
Having said all this, there is a major patch on the way that could totally destroy or improve the experience. I really do hope it turns out well as this game has a really good foundation in place and a top expansion could put it back on the map.
Is it perfect? I'm not sure. I'm probably too new to work that out. Maybe I'll come back and provide updates as I get closer to the end-game.
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It is already back, Subscriber are growing...but well, I think as well that there has to be a very good expansion or insane patches to put it back on a WoW-killer or even nearly like that
Im glad you like it, im affarid that like eveything that funcom works on gets hyped before release and the player base pays for the beta like state for quite awhile after the game is out. Also funcom has redirected advertizment toward The Seceret World and my guess has pulled staff from AO, AOC, the hype starts and fanbois post but the truth is they do not release a very good product and you pay for fixing it up. Im through supporting Funcom and will voice my opion on anything they try and put off on the public.
This is how i feel and im sure others feel the oppisite, time will tell but there track record is not very good.
MAGA
I joined the game around November or December and was also a little leary because of the experiences of many around launch. However, I had enough MMO experience to know that its always better to wait 6 months or so until a game settles in with the fixes before joining. It was the right thing to do, as I was not ridiculously mentally scarred requiring a pyschologist like a few of the people who post endlessly their experience months ago, or who write about the Finances of a company the average gamer cares nothing about. The reality of it is that this game has delivered a fun and immersive world with insane graphics. I was worried about what so many others wrote here with regard to how tortage was the only good part about the game and that when you leave tortage, your experience is so different with all these huge gaps between levels with no quests. That may have been the case before I joined, but so far I can barely keep up with the quests and to be honest, I was looking forward to getting out of tortage because I don't require voices to enjoy reading a quest. If anything my eyes read way faster then their voices and I was finding it distracting. I really don't care if the company lied at the beginning. Management changed and now they seem to be on the proper course with regard to content and listening to the community. Why should I care about what happened 6 months ago when all that has changed now? Should I deny myself a fun playing experience and play something else worse just because of something that happened months ago? Unless this was a cheating wife, I'm willing to forgive in order to have fun and I really don't care if the game has 10000 subscribers or 2 million subscribers, as long as I continue to be able to group (which is quite easy so far) and have fun. Unfinished and others like him who have nothing better to do then to write nonsense here, move on to something you enjoy or get some therapy. Until a better game comes out, Age of Conan has won me over. I'm in a great guild. To those who just can't get over what happened months ago, next time wait a few months before jumping into an MMO, because if you didn't learn from experiences like Vanguard, then you will just continue to have the same problem moving forward and you only have yourself to blame.
There Is Always Hope!
Thats exactly what i think mate, im glad you are having fun like i am, isnt that what really matters?
I've heard the same, and am glad that they got the bugs worked out. Still, the fact that Aion, a game that looks better and seems more polished, can run on my laptop, whereas you need a Beowulf cluster to play AoC, kills it for me. The reason so many here swore off going back to the game was, a lot tried the game in beta, and told them the issues they had, yet they released it without many fixes, such as higher level content, memory leaks, and siege failure, instead hyping the game and releasing it as an unfinished product.
There are just better options out there, that are less taxing for the average player.
1) I agree from what I heard in the past that needing a monster machine to play would eliminate a lot of players compared to others games like WOW or LOFTRO where you can play on just about any machine, but from what I hear the optimization they have done nows has greatly lowered the standard one needs to play the game. A friend of mine tried with a GTX 6000 series and was able to play fine on medium settings.
2) Who cares about comparing what game was more polished at released. What matters is what the game is like today. Regardless, like you I am greatly curious about Aion and don't know enough about it to say that the graphics are superior to this game (which I find hard to believe, but hope you are right because that would just mean it has incredible graphics). Look, an ancient video card should be upgraded regardless of the game.
3) What game that is available today is much better? I tried EQ2, that was boring. I tried WOW for 4 years and I just got tired of it. I tried Warhammer and though it was fun at first, it just grew tired at end game and didn't have a lot of depth. I tried Vanguard over a year after its release and though I loved the seamless world, found it dull to run around for 3 hours looking for a book..and there were still some inexcusible performance and graphical problems. I tried LOFTRO which actually was very polished at release. I enjoyed it to level 48, but there are just so many WARGS you can kill over and over again. Also, it just didn't have good magic classes for those of us who prefer magic classes. I would actually say after WOW that LOFRTO was my second favorite until I tired AOC a few months ago. I tried Guild Wars and just didn't like the instances. I really hope Aion is the next great game, but until then I don't see anything better then this game as it stands today and ignoring the history many of you are scarred with...I'm staying put.
There Is Always Hope!
AoC is a good game, but it's let down a lot by bad class balance and lack of content at mid-high level. Even though they have filled in some of the gaps now you still end up having to grind once you run out of quests in an area.
AoC would have been perfectly fine releasing it with a level cap at 40 along with highly polished content, then worked on higher level stuff for the next couple of years while the game takes off. I guess someone thought more levels = better so we ended up with a game that was rushed after the first 40ish levels.
you dont seem to have the same impression as those who play the game. Game is great until lvl 75 where you have some diffuculties finding quests. Your complaints were valid a year ago. Thats a long time in any mmo.
Originally posted by BishopB:
Are a lot of the trolls just angry kids with old gaming hardware?
While new players have nice things to say, it seems like a lot of the older players are becoming less and less enthusiastic.
forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php
Wow, I never realized it was so bad in the game until I read that thread. Only way that AOC can make it is if the new players are in greater number than all of the vets that are leaving.
Wow, I never realized it was so bad in the game until I read that thread. Only way that AOC can make it is if the new players are in greater number than all of the vets that are leaving.
That does sum it up. The game is fun while leveling, but you get to a point where there is just nothing to do. You could pvp, but if your unlucky enough to have picked a class that is useless in pvp you won't enjoy it.
The game just doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment, they have spent all the time since release trying to fix problems and fill in content gaps because of a rushed release. They set out to "kill wow", but the state they released the game (and state it's still in) is a joke. I really want to like AoC, but it just doesn't keep me interested
OK I'm not going to bash the game and as a matter of fact my parents did love me
I just wanted to check out some of the other games so I thought I'd download the trial, play abit and drop it.
After the first 25 hours of updating the launcher it says it's ready, so I hit play. After a while (took so long I didn't think it actually launched) I get a pop up that my video drivers aren't up to date. OK, thanks for telling me that and I update the drivers and hit launch again. Now it only wants to do a 2 hour update download. Wow, 5 min driver update = 2 hours more launcher info!
Finally get a play window and get go. Initial cut scene is a bit choppy so I'm thinking not good (my rig's only about 1/2 way between min and rec, video card is the big hit against me). After that scene I have access to the options and I drop my video setting down to low (THANK YOU for the intro sticky info in the threads). So I create a toon (female of course as I want to see what all the M rating hype is about ), get to the beach and ........ holy crap I'm missing parts!!!! Even the BBC is better at showing stuff, but oh well on to the game.
And off I go wacking things with my broken oar. End up with some croc teeth, a gold tooth from some dude, beer and a bloody arm stump - just the thing to go wack people with but I guess beating them over the head with the bloody stump isn't allowed.
Just from that little jaunt I'm already a level 3 and haven't even left the beach! Make's me think the focus on the game is really the level 80 Pvp end play, i.e. level fast to get to the end. PoTBS pretty much did the same concept and it wasn't for the best as there wasn't enough at max level to support it once you got there.
Now I never said I didn't like the game, in fact my wife and I were laughing our behinds off the whole time.
Thing's I'd like to figure out/see - binding the movement to the mouse and the up arrow as I never have gotten the hang of walking with the W,A,S,D buttons. Collision detection - nice feature but not if I'm hung up on a small piece of wood I could step over. This goes to the 1st item - can't walk
And finally just a few points. Their innovative combat of side hit's, over hand shot's and mounted combat? That was done by a game called Mount & Blade about 5 years ago.
SWG (pre-cu) - AoC (pre-f2p) - PotBS (pre-boarder) - DDO - LotRO (pre-f2p) - STO (pre-f2p) - GnH (beta tester) - SWTOR - Neverwinter
OK, this is the VERY FIRST time I have seen an almost positive response in one of your posts over the last 6 months or so. You admitted that new players have nice things to say. Good boy. On that note, I'm curious to know which MMO you are playing right now and enjoying?
In that thread you provided, this post was funny:.
"i find this thread really funny. I can just imagine the developers scratching their heads at a project meeting: "How the hell can we possibly include enough endgame content to keep people with no lives occupied for every single hour of the day for the next 10 years????"
I think in order for the developers to be successful they need to come up with the cheapest scheme for players to be able to busy themselves forever and ever. it takes to much time to write up quests and content in an expansion and implement them in game if people run through it in like 1 day. They should just give us repeatable raids with elite items with excruciatingly low drop rates so we can farm the fcking bosses day in and day out for the next 2 yrs, just like how a hamster busies himself by mindlessly running on a stationary hamster wheel all day.
Honestly, i think that the only way to have enough endgame content is to give obsessive players seemingly impossible, unattainable goals, that can be reached by playing the game 25 out of 24 hours of the day for the next year. Even then you will have some people that are actually able to do it and then later complain about there not being enough endgame.
Solution: get a job, go outside, play this game like any normal person would- as a hobby and not as a replacement for your real life.
Now I direct you to an informational picture that you should all take very seriously:"
http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscart...s/jlvn454l.jpg
There Is Always Hope!
I couldn't play it as I do not have enough computer nor fast enough connection.
AOC could give free sex, become a f2p and buy you dinner. It's never going to be a WOW killer.
And no I don't play WOW, I'm not a fan of the game. This is just fact.
excuse me, unless your using the computer for mmo's please get off.