I think most of AoC's problems stem from the launch. And I'm not talking about bugs. They launched the game not just buggy, but incomplete. And not admitting it.
This lead to them trying to complete dev and continue new dev in a live environment. It lead to various game dynamics being either broken or gimped and because FC wouldn't admit it, no one could know if a given system was supposed to be that way, was broken and to be fixed, or just a place holder until they managed to get installed what was originally intended.
Not a confidence inspiring state of affairs in what was to be a top-shelf game.
most of the features wow promised were there at launch. Over 50% of the age of conan content was either not part of the launch or never existed in the first place.
Actually that isn't true Frostbite.
Blizzard initially said that the easy leveling curve was so players could get to 60 quickly to begin working on pvp and their hero class. Well the pvp was pointless until several months later when the (now old) honor system was put it with battlegrounds. Until then it was just grief here, gank there, with no gain or consequece.
Hero Classes were promised at release. They had originally said that you would get to 60, then become a <whatever>. For whatever reason, they never followed up on that and refused to even talk about hero classes until Wrath. At that time it was a hero class (read: singular) that required no effort to get.
Honestly thought, can't really compare AoC and WoW fairly. AoC it geared towards higher end PC's and mature gamers. WoW is going for mass market appeal with lower-res "cartoony" graphics and younger players.
Lol since when have boobies attracted mature gamers?
It's a myth that AoC has older players. Every guild I have ever been to has had tons of kiddies who lied that they were adults and who always refuse to come to vent because then they would be exposed. All you need is one look at public chat and you'll see how "mature" AoC community is.
First off, where did you get in my post that "mature gamers" equates to "boobies"? I would think the immature gamers would be going for the digital boobies as it were.
As for looking at public chat, there is technically no "public" chat, I will assume you mean Global? Many people actually disable that as there is a LFG channel if they need to find peopel for a pug. As for the "quality" of chat in Global it is no where NEAR as bad as the infamous Barrens Chat that WoW has. If you ask a legitimate question in Global you will rarely get a snarky reply (unlike in WoW).
When speaking of a mature game, it's more than the "boobies" as you put it. There is adult language and themes as well in many of the quests. Not to mention, AoC has fatalities....
Your skills of assumption are pretty amazing.
It's a known fact that both boobies and fatalities attract immature players, not mature. Adults and mature gamers don't generally get all excited if they see pixel boobies or someone decapitated. Adults like "deeper" games, not just cheap eye candy and fluff.
I don't know what kind of chat they have in WoW but I can tell you that AoC had the worst public chat I had ever seen in an MMO. That is of course only my own opinion, yours may be different.
Right now I am playing Fallen Earth and I could instantly tell that its community is much more mature than AoC's. People are actually nice and very helpful. In AoC I saw mostly frustrated kids who liked ganking.
Ah you never played WoW, which explains some. You don't have the comparison to understand my reference. Basically The Barrens was a 10-20ish zone, rather bland (oversized plains) so when people were off questing there, the general chat channel usually filled up with odd topics. Chuck Norris references, bad jokes, etc. They even make t-shirts now saying "I survived Barrens Chat" over at Jinx. I'ts gotten to the point that saying "barrens chat" is referring to something stupid and irrelevant. I've seen in CoH and AoC, someone making a comment about "gosh let's not turn this into barrens chat".
Now as for me assuming, you knowing for a fact that fatalities and boobies attract immature gamers... is a rather big assumption on your part. The boobies part, that I do agree with if it was just for the sake of "the boobies". As long as it's following the theme of the storyline, boobies don't bother me. An example is the Black Pyramid quest lines. The fatalities are different, since they are actually a short term buff, there is a practical reason to try and get one to go off. Mature themes are quite common in this game, which may or may not include fatalities and boobies.
Your last statement about "frustrated kids who liked ganking" tells me that you played the game early on and on a pvp server. On pve servers, there is no ganking.... period. Simply can't happen. Not long after release Funcom added a buff to prevent ganking upon rez called "shield of the risen". It even lowers the cast time of your Path to 1 sec should the ganker be standing there and you want to leave. Currently they have a criminal system so that if someone continues to grief lowbies, it will penalize them by making them difficult to go into cities (guards attack), having to pay 5 silver to zone elsewhere and having only 1 rez pad per zone to spawn at.
ThorgrimmAge of Conan CorrespondentMemberPosts: 274
Originally posted by Iplaytoomuch
Actually I have played very recently and on a PvP server. I know for a fact that there's a lot of mindless ganking going on and if you claim something else then maybe you haven't been playing since launch?
Okay, I'll bite... Which server do you play on? Don't need a character name, just a server. Cimmeria and Set are not that way. From what I hear Wiccana is not either. Your comment is very general and needs to based in FACT so it can be proven true. If you are not willing to admit which server is a gank-fest, then you are exaggerating again. Furthermore, if you and your alter-ego hate this game so much, why are you paying to play?
most of the features wow promised were there at launch. Over 50% of the age of conan content was either not part of the launch or never existed in the first place.
Actually that isn't true Frostbite.
Blizzard initially said that the easy leveling curve was so players could get to 60 quickly to begin working on pvp and their hero class. Well the pvp was pointless until several months later when the (now old) honor system was put it with battlegrounds. Until then it was just grief here, gank there, with no gain or consequece.
Hero Classes were promised at release. They had originally said that you would get to 60, then become a <whatever>. For whatever reason, they never followed up on that and refused to even talk about hero classes until Wrath. At that time it was a hero class (read: singular) that required no effort to get.
Honestly thought, can't really compare AoC and WoW fairly. AoC it geared towards higher end PC's and mature gamers. WoW is going for mass market appeal with lower-res "cartoony" graphics and younger players.
Lol since when have boobies attracted mature gamers?
It's a myth that AoC has older players. Every guild I have ever been to has had tons of kiddies who lied that they were adults and who always refuse to come to vent because then they would be exposed. All you need is one look at public chat and you'll see how "mature" AoC community is.
First off, where did you get in my post that "mature gamers" equates to "boobies"? I would think the immature gamers would be going for the digital boobies as it were.
As for looking at public chat, there is technically no "public" chat, I will assume you mean Global? Many people actually disable that as there is a LFG channel if they need to find peopel for a pug. As for the "quality" of chat in Global it is no where NEAR as bad as the infamous Barrens Chat that WoW has. If you ask a legitimate question in Global you will rarely get a snarky reply (unlike in WoW).
When speaking of a mature game, it's more than the "boobies" as you put it. There is adult language and themes as well in many of the quests. Not to mention, AoC has fatalities....
Your skills of assumption are pretty amazing.
It's a known fact that both boobies and fatalities attract immature players, not mature. Adults and mature gamers don't generally get all excited if they see pixel boobies or someone decapitated. Adults like "deeper" games, not just cheap eye candy and fluff.
I don't know what kind of chat they have in WoW but I can tell you that AoC had the worst public chat I had ever seen in an MMO. That is of course only my own opinion, yours may be different.
Right now I am playing Fallen Earth and I could instantly tell that its community is much more mature than AoC's. People are actually nice and very helpful. In AoC I saw mostly frustrated kids who liked ganking.
Ah you never played WoW, which explains some. You don't have the comparison to understand my reference. Basically The Barrens was a 10-20ish zone, rather bland (oversized plains) so when people were off questing there, the general chat channel usually filled up with odd topics. Chuck Norris references, bad jokes, etc. They even make t-shirts now saying "I survived Barrens Chat" over at Jinx. I'ts gotten to the point that saying "barrens chat" is referring to something stupid and irrelevant. I've seen in CoH and AoC, someone making a comment about "gosh let's not turn this into barrens chat".
Now as for me assuming, you knowing for a fact that fatalities and boobies attract immature gamers... is a rather big assumption on your part. The boobies part, that I do agree with if it was just for the sake of "the boobies". As long as it's following the theme of the storyline, boobies don't bother me. An example is the Black Pyramid quest lines. The fatalities are different, since they are actually a short term buff, there is a practical reason to try and get one to go off. Mature themes are quite common in this game, which may or may not include fatalities and boobies.
Your last statement about "frustrated kids who liked ganking" tells me that you played the game early on and on a pvp server. On pve servers, there is no ganking.... period. Simply can't happen. Not long after release Funcom added a buff to prevent ganking upon rez called "shield of the risen". It even lowers the cast time of your Path to 1 sec should the ganker be standing there and you want to leave. Currently they have a criminal system so that if someone continues to grief lowbies, it will penalize them by making them difficult to go into cities (guards attack), having to pay 5 silver to zone elsewhere and having only 1 rez pad per zone to spawn at.
Actually I have played very recently and on a PvP server. I know for a fact that there's a lot of mindless ganking going on and if you claim something else then maybe you haven't been playing since launch?
Ok last time I will reply to your comments as it it obvious you aren't reading and/or understanding what I am saying.
I DID say that you must of played on a pvp server, on PVE servers there is NO ganking. Ever. Now if you play on a PVP server isn't that the idea that ... there is pvp? Ganking isn't somehow unique to AoC it happens in every MMO that has pvp servers: DAoC, WoW, EQ1, etc. In case you haven't realized by now, I play on a pve server because I want to enjoy the quests and storyline. I went through my pvp phase back when I played DAoC with my nightshade.
Yes I have been playing since launch by the way.
The point I was trying to make is Funcom added features to reduce the amount of ganking. There will always be someone who will gank regardless of what the game penalizes them with, so that can't be helped. Now, you cannot be ganked right after you rez due to the Shield of the Risen buff as one example.
ThorgrimmAge of Conan CorrespondentMemberPosts: 274
Originally posted by DrowNoble
Originally posted by Iplaytoomuch
Actually I have played very recently and on a PvP server. I know for a fact that there's a lot of mindless ganking going on and if you claim something else then maybe you haven't been playing since launch?
I DID say that you must of played on a pvp server, on PVE servers there is NO ganking. Ever. Now if you play on a PVP server isn't that the idea that ... there is pvp? Ganking isn't somehow unique to AoC it happens in every MMO that has pvp servers: DAoC, WoW, EQ1, etc. In case you haven't realized by now, I play on a pve server because I want to enjoy the quests and storyline. I went through my pvp phase back when I played DAoC with my nightshade.
The point I was trying to make is Funcom added features to reduce the amount of ganking. There will always be someone who will gank regardless of what the game penalizes them with, so that can't be helped. Now, you cannot be ganked right after you rez due to the Shield of the Risen buff as one example.
Okay IPLAY, you are complaining because two PvP servers (Aquilonia and Fury) are a Gank-fest. This is Rich!!!
It really must be terrible that those servers are so active that there are so many people that play on that server, and they want to Gank you on sight. With the way you speak and act on Forums, and the aggressiveness of many European Guilds, I suspect you are on a Kill On Sight (KOS) list. I really would not be surprised. I guess, by your own words then, since you were REALLY there, that the population is strong and there are a lot of people running around to allow for ganking, in general. Thank you for the report of renewed populations on two of our European AOC PvP servers; this is REALLY GOOD NEWS. Thank you!
I play nearly daily on a US PVP-RP server, and I have been killed twice in the last two weeks on various questpoints. Honestly, the player did not camp my corpse and must have been passing through, since he killed my four-man team (mid-level 32-44) very quickly. I believe he was Stygian, and he attacked a group of Cimmerians in a Cimmerian zone. This may just be an example of RP, so I guess I have respect for him to a degree.
LIST OF MERGED SERVERS:
US Servers
Set (PvE)
* Damballah
* Bardisattva
* Dagoth
* Derketo
* Hanuman
Wiccana (PvE)
* Mannanan
* Ajujo
* Thog
* Zug
* Omm
Gwahlur (PvE - Oceaninc)
Tyranny (PvP)
* Scourge
* Bluesteel
* Stormrage
* Deathwhisper
* Doomsayer
* Shadowblade
Cimmeria (PvP-RP)
* Bane
Bloodspire (PvP - Oceanic) - merged on 7th January 2009)
Just let this thread die. LordBonezy is only trying to come off as a serius poster but all he want to do is try to make "the servers are dead" the truth.
Rumors has it that LordBonezy is the smarter one in the trio BlackFanaBonzers. Think they had a hit or something in the early -90`s....
Since Funcom were marketing "steaks" lets look at it from that perspective...
Yeah, lets make a wall of words based on that... or not
I agree, don't blame all of AoC's perceived problems on the launch. Move past it and enjoy the game for what it is now.
After the belief that the latest mmorpg's were gonna rock the mmorpg world, another generation of mmorpg gamers have been lead to disappointment. And considering the relative decline of the until now big mmorpgs (like wow etc).
Many of the until now Aion and [insert mmorpg here] players will have felt the lack of a semi-realistic world, and would like to give AoC a go.
Don't be afraid. You can still pretend that FC have betrayed you.
Coke and Pepsi both deliver good products and services, and they don't screw their customers by delivering half cans of soda with holes on the top but letting us all know it will be fixed in 2-3 months or maybe 4. To be fair I'm not the typical MMO player, never played WOW don't play AOC or any competion anymore because honestly nothing else currently appeals to me. I have given Aion some thought but I'm holding out for Mortal Online, I'm thinking that is going to be a pretty good game if they can get it off the ground. AOC is simply dying fast and I have no faith given the history of Funcom that there development team is going to build an expansion worth paying for.
Minus the launch of AO, did you ever play AO? And then thier follow up expansions? If anything, I turst thier expansions more than the originals. Shadowlands was a great addition, and Alien Invasion added elements to the game that were pretty revolutionary at the time, and I thought it was great. I was not around for the Lost Eden expansion, or whatever the name of it was, but I heard from many of my friends that it was well done as well.
I think you just have a pretty large bias against them for some reason, and would just rather assume that everything they have ever done, and will ever do is crap. Two bad launches. That sucks, but that is pretty much all. AO developed into quite the game, relished by many even to this day, and it added elements to the MMO genre never seen before, or really even after. AoC has not gotten there yet, but they are still on the right path. The game is doing much better as far as the fun factor, and if they keep building onto the base, they will get a great game. It is just a shame that it took so long.
I hope they take a que from AO, and once the expansion comes out, they make froob accounts for the normal AoC, and then you need to subscribe for the expansion content.
No. Pre-Shadowlands AO was one of the greatest MMO's ever, at least imo, after SL, it lost much of it's greatness. Shadowlands turned AO from a sandbox to a themepark, and made it so you had to grind billions of the same mobs over and over to level.
And Alien Invasion? Are you fucking nuts? That is possibly the worst pay for expansion in the history of MMO's, all it added was GAME BREAKINGLY overpowered armor and content that was only accessable to a small minority of the population (IE the orgs can could afford citys, and there was limited city spots and no way to pvp or contest a city spot, you had to buy them off ebay for hundreds of dollars no joke). Quite frankly AI ruined AO, at least for me. You needed to kill something like 50,000 aliens to get max alien level, and again most people couldn't even use the content because the vast majority of players didn't have a city. The alien armor added to the game would be the equivilant of adding epic armor in WOW that gave you 1000 points to every stat and damage type, and only 1-5% of the population even had the ability to farm it, which took months.
Fuck funcom expansions, though I do hope they do something nice with Rise of Godslayer, because despite my off and on anger towards Funcom, I still enjoyed AO and AoC.
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I think most of AoC's problems stem from the launch. And I'm not talking about bugs. They launched the game not just buggy, but incomplete. And not admitting it.
This lead to them trying to complete dev and continue new dev in a live environment. It lead to various game dynamics being either broken or gimped and because FC wouldn't admit it, no one could know if a given system was supposed to be that way, was broken and to be fixed, or just a place holder until they managed to get installed what was originally intended.
Not a confidence inspiring state of affairs in what was to be a top-shelf game.
Actually that isn't true Frostbite.
Blizzard initially said that the easy leveling curve was so players could get to 60 quickly to begin working on pvp and their hero class. Well the pvp was pointless until several months later when the (now old) honor system was put it with battlegrounds. Until then it was just grief here, gank there, with no gain or consequece.
Hero Classes were promised at release. They had originally said that you would get to 60, then become a <whatever>. For whatever reason, they never followed up on that and refused to even talk about hero classes until Wrath. At that time it was a hero class (read: singular) that required no effort to get.
Honestly thought, can't really compare AoC and WoW fairly. AoC it geared towards higher end PC's and mature gamers. WoW is going for mass market appeal with lower-res "cartoony" graphics and younger players.
Lol since when have boobies attracted mature gamers?
It's a myth that AoC has older players. Every guild I have ever been to has had tons of kiddies who lied that they were adults and who always refuse to come to vent because then they would be exposed. All you need is one look at public chat and you'll see how "mature" AoC community is.
First off, where did you get in my post that "mature gamers" equates to "boobies"? I would think the immature gamers would be going for the digital boobies as it were.
As for looking at public chat, there is technically no "public" chat, I will assume you mean Global? Many people actually disable that as there is a LFG channel if they need to find peopel for a pug. As for the "quality" of chat in Global it is no where NEAR as bad as the infamous Barrens Chat that WoW has. If you ask a legitimate question in Global you will rarely get a snarky reply (unlike in WoW).
When speaking of a mature game, it's more than the "boobies" as you put it. There is adult language and themes as well in many of the quests. Not to mention, AoC has fatalities....
Your skills of assumption are pretty amazing.
It's a known fact that both boobies and fatalities attract immature players, not mature. Adults and mature gamers don't generally get all excited if they see pixel boobies or someone decapitated. Adults like "deeper" games, not just cheap eye candy and fluff.
I don't know what kind of chat they have in WoW but I can tell you that AoC had the worst public chat I had ever seen in an MMO. That is of course only my own opinion, yours may be different.
Right now I am playing Fallen Earth and I could instantly tell that its community is much more mature than AoC's. People are actually nice and very helpful. In AoC I saw mostly frustrated kids who liked ganking.
Ah you never played WoW, which explains some. You don't have the comparison to understand my reference. Basically The Barrens was a 10-20ish zone, rather bland (oversized plains) so when people were off questing there, the general chat channel usually filled up with odd topics. Chuck Norris references, bad jokes, etc. They even make t-shirts now saying "I survived Barrens Chat" over at Jinx. I'ts gotten to the point that saying "barrens chat" is referring to something stupid and irrelevant. I've seen in CoH and AoC, someone making a comment about "gosh let's not turn this into barrens chat".
Now as for me assuming, you knowing for a fact that fatalities and boobies attract immature gamers... is a rather big assumption on your part. The boobies part, that I do agree with if it was just for the sake of "the boobies". As long as it's following the theme of the storyline, boobies don't bother me. An example is the Black Pyramid quest lines. The fatalities are different, since they are actually a short term buff, there is a practical reason to try and get one to go off. Mature themes are quite common in this game, which may or may not include fatalities and boobies.
Your last statement about "frustrated kids who liked ganking" tells me that you played the game early on and on a pvp server. On pve servers, there is no ganking.... period. Simply can't happen. Not long after release Funcom added a buff to prevent ganking upon rez called "shield of the risen". It even lowers the cast time of your Path to 1 sec should the ganker be standing there and you want to leave. Currently they have a criminal system so that if someone continues to grief lowbies, it will penalize them by making them difficult to go into cities (guards attack), having to pay 5 silver to zone elsewhere and having only 1 rez pad per zone to spawn at.
Okay, I'll bite... Which server do you play on? Don't need a character name, just a server. Cimmeria and Set are not that way. From what I hear Wiccana is not either. Your comment is very general and needs to based in FACT so it can be proven true. If you are not willing to admit which server is a gank-fest, then you are exaggerating again. Furthermore, if you and your alter-ego hate this game so much, why are you paying to play?
Actually that isn't true Frostbite.
Blizzard initially said that the easy leveling curve was so players could get to 60 quickly to begin working on pvp and their hero class. Well the pvp was pointless until several months later when the (now old) honor system was put it with battlegrounds. Until then it was just grief here, gank there, with no gain or consequece.
Hero Classes were promised at release. They had originally said that you would get to 60, then become a <whatever>. For whatever reason, they never followed up on that and refused to even talk about hero classes until Wrath. At that time it was a hero class (read: singular) that required no effort to get.
Honestly thought, can't really compare AoC and WoW fairly. AoC it geared towards higher end PC's and mature gamers. WoW is going for mass market appeal with lower-res "cartoony" graphics and younger players.
Lol since when have boobies attracted mature gamers?
It's a myth that AoC has older players. Every guild I have ever been to has had tons of kiddies who lied that they were adults and who always refuse to come to vent because then they would be exposed. All you need is one look at public chat and you'll see how "mature" AoC community is.
First off, where did you get in my post that "mature gamers" equates to "boobies"? I would think the immature gamers would be going for the digital boobies as it were.
As for looking at public chat, there is technically no "public" chat, I will assume you mean Global? Many people actually disable that as there is a LFG channel if they need to find peopel for a pug. As for the "quality" of chat in Global it is no where NEAR as bad as the infamous Barrens Chat that WoW has. If you ask a legitimate question in Global you will rarely get a snarky reply (unlike in WoW).
When speaking of a mature game, it's more than the "boobies" as you put it. There is adult language and themes as well in many of the quests. Not to mention, AoC has fatalities....
Your skills of assumption are pretty amazing.
It's a known fact that both boobies and fatalities attract immature players, not mature. Adults and mature gamers don't generally get all excited if they see pixel boobies or someone decapitated. Adults like "deeper" games, not just cheap eye candy and fluff.
I don't know what kind of chat they have in WoW but I can tell you that AoC had the worst public chat I had ever seen in an MMO. That is of course only my own opinion, yours may be different.
Right now I am playing Fallen Earth and I could instantly tell that its community is much more mature than AoC's. People are actually nice and very helpful. In AoC I saw mostly frustrated kids who liked ganking.
Ah you never played WoW, which explains some. You don't have the comparison to understand my reference. Basically The Barrens was a 10-20ish zone, rather bland (oversized plains) so when people were off questing there, the general chat channel usually filled up with odd topics. Chuck Norris references, bad jokes, etc. They even make t-shirts now saying "I survived Barrens Chat" over at Jinx. I'ts gotten to the point that saying "barrens chat" is referring to something stupid and irrelevant. I've seen in CoH and AoC, someone making a comment about "gosh let's not turn this into barrens chat".
Now as for me assuming, you knowing for a fact that fatalities and boobies attract immature gamers... is a rather big assumption on your part. The boobies part, that I do agree with if it was just for the sake of "the boobies". As long as it's following the theme of the storyline, boobies don't bother me. An example is the Black Pyramid quest lines. The fatalities are different, since they are actually a short term buff, there is a practical reason to try and get one to go off. Mature themes are quite common in this game, which may or may not include fatalities and boobies.
Your last statement about "frustrated kids who liked ganking" tells me that you played the game early on and on a pvp server. On pve servers, there is no ganking.... period. Simply can't happen. Not long after release Funcom added a buff to prevent ganking upon rez called "shield of the risen". It even lowers the cast time of your Path to 1 sec should the ganker be standing there and you want to leave. Currently they have a criminal system so that if someone continues to grief lowbies, it will penalize them by making them difficult to go into cities (guards attack), having to pay 5 silver to zone elsewhere and having only 1 rez pad per zone to spawn at.
Actually I have played very recently and on a PvP server. I know for a fact that there's a lot of mindless ganking going on and if you claim something else then maybe you haven't been playing since launch?
Ok last time I will reply to your comments as it it obvious you aren't reading and/or understanding what I am saying.
I DID say that you must of played on a pvp server, on PVE servers there is NO ganking. Ever. Now if you play on a PVP server isn't that the idea that ... there is pvp? Ganking isn't somehow unique to AoC it happens in every MMO that has pvp servers: DAoC, WoW, EQ1, etc. In case you haven't realized by now, I play on a pve server because I want to enjoy the quests and storyline. I went through my pvp phase back when I played DAoC with my nightshade.
Yes I have been playing since launch by the way.
The point I was trying to make is Funcom added features to reduce the amount of ganking. There will always be someone who will gank regardless of what the game penalizes them with, so that can't be helped. Now, you cannot be ganked right after you rez due to the Shield of the Risen buff as one example.
I DID say that you must of played on a pvp server, on PVE servers there is NO ganking. Ever. Now if you play on a PVP server isn't that the idea that ... there is pvp? Ganking isn't somehow unique to AoC it happens in every MMO that has pvp servers: DAoC, WoW, EQ1, etc. In case you haven't realized by now, I play on a pve server because I want to enjoy the quests and storyline. I went through my pvp phase back when I played DAoC with my nightshade.
The point I was trying to make is Funcom added features to reduce the amount of ganking. There will always be someone who will gank regardless of what the game penalizes them with, so that can't be helped. Now, you cannot be ganked right after you rez due to the Shield of the Risen buff as one example.
Okay IPLAY, you are complaining because two PvP servers (Aquilonia and Fury) are a Gank-fest. This is Rich!!!
It really must be terrible that those servers are so active that there are so many people that play on that server, and they want to Gank you on sight. With the way you speak and act on Forums, and the aggressiveness of many European Guilds, I suspect you are on a Kill On Sight (KOS) list. I really would not be surprised. I guess, by your own words then, since you were REALLY there, that the population is strong and there are a lot of people running around to allow for ganking, in general. Thank you for the report of renewed populations on two of our European AOC PvP servers; this is REALLY GOOD NEWS. Thank you!
I play nearly daily on a US PVP-RP server, and I have been killed twice in the last two weeks on various questpoints. Honestly, the player did not camp my corpse and must have been passing through, since he killed my four-man team (mid-level 32-44) very quickly. I believe he was Stygian, and he attacked a group of Cimmerians in a Cimmerian zone. This may just be an example of RP, so I guess I have respect for him to a degree.
LIST OF MERGED SERVERS:
US Servers
Set (PvE)
* Damballah
* Bardisattva
* Dagoth
* Derketo
* Hanuman
Wiccana (PvE)
* Mannanan
* Ajujo
* Thog
* Zug
* Omm
Gwahlur (PvE - Oceaninc)
Tyranny (PvP)
* Scourge
* Bluesteel
* Stormrage
* Deathwhisper
* Doomsayer
* Shadowblade
Cimmeria (PvP-RP)
* Bane
Bloodspire (PvP - Oceanic) - merged on 7th January 2009)
* Hyperborea
EU Servers
English Servers
Crom (PVE)
* Ymir
* Bori
* Bloodbrand (Ahriman)
* Dagon
Hyrkania (PVE-RP)
Fury (PvP)
* Battlescar
* Wildsoul
* Soulstorm
* Twilight
Aquilonia (PvP-RP)
* Corinthia
German Servers
Mitra (PvE)
* Ibis
* Asura
Aries (PvP)
* Titus
Asgard (PvP-RP)
French Servers
Ishtar (PvE)
Ferox (PvP)
* Strix
Stygia (PvP-RP)
Spanish Servers
Zingara (PvE)
Indomitus (PvP)
what is your point?
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Just let this thread die. LordBonezy is only trying to come off as a serius poster but all he want to do is try to make "the servers are dead" the truth.
Rumors has it that LordBonezy is the smarter one in the trio BlackFanaBonzers. Think they had a hit or something in the early -90`s....
Yeah, lets make a wall of words based on that... or not
I agree, don't blame all of AoC's perceived problems on the launch. Move past it and enjoy the game for what it is now.
After the belief that the latest mmorpg's were gonna rock the mmorpg world, another generation of mmorpg gamers have been lead to disappointment. And considering the relative decline of the until now big mmorpgs (like wow etc).
Many of the until now Aion and [insert mmorpg here] players will have felt the lack of a semi-realistic world, and would like to give AoC a go.
Don't be afraid. You can still pretend that FC have betrayed you.
Enjoy
"nerf rock, paper is working as intended."
- Scissors.
Head Chop
Minus the launch of AO, did you ever play AO? And then thier follow up expansions? If anything, I turst thier expansions more than the originals. Shadowlands was a great addition, and Alien Invasion added elements to the game that were pretty revolutionary at the time, and I thought it was great. I was not around for the Lost Eden expansion, or whatever the name of it was, but I heard from many of my friends that it was well done as well.
I think you just have a pretty large bias against them for some reason, and would just rather assume that everything they have ever done, and will ever do is crap. Two bad launches. That sucks, but that is pretty much all. AO developed into quite the game, relished by many even to this day, and it added elements to the MMO genre never seen before, or really even after. AoC has not gotten there yet, but they are still on the right path. The game is doing much better as far as the fun factor, and if they keep building onto the base, they will get a great game. It is just a shame that it took so long.
I hope they take a que from AO, and once the expansion comes out, they make froob accounts for the normal AoC, and then you need to subscribe for the expansion content.
No. Pre-Shadowlands AO was one of the greatest MMO's ever, at least imo, after SL, it lost much of it's greatness. Shadowlands turned AO from a sandbox to a themepark, and made it so you had to grind billions of the same mobs over and over to level.
And Alien Invasion? Are you fucking nuts? That is possibly the worst pay for expansion in the history of MMO's, all it added was GAME BREAKINGLY overpowered armor and content that was only accessable to a small minority of the population (IE the orgs can could afford citys, and there was limited city spots and no way to pvp or contest a city spot, you had to buy them off ebay for hundreds of dollars no joke). Quite frankly AI ruined AO, at least for me. You needed to kill something like 50,000 aliens to get max alien level, and again most people couldn't even use the content because the vast majority of players didn't have a city. The alien armor added to the game would be the equivilant of adding epic armor in WOW that gave you 1000 points to every stat and damage type, and only 1-5% of the population even had the ability to farm it, which took months.
Fuck funcom expansions, though I do hope they do something nice with Rise of Godslayer, because despite my off and on anger towards Funcom, I still enjoyed AO and AoC.