I have been playing this game for a while now and have had to solo 4 characters to max level and am in the process of leveling another one but I have had to solo that one too. Yeah the new servers have an influx of lowbies to group with but most will be players from the other servers that already exist. I did make a character on the new Rage server but was disappointed when I realised I couldnt level using the Instanced Mini games and really cant be bothered PVEing another character to max on a PVP server.
I will continue to play the game on and off because the graphics are awesome until one of the other MMOs im hanging out for get released.
I think its a great game. Granted....I don't PvP much (though i did start a toon on the new server) and almost never raid. Maybe that's why I always thought the population was fine. I never needed to raid but always found people for group quests and the chat was always flying by at a decent pace. So ..at least on SET...it seemd the population was there. For now.... It's even better imo.Plus..at some point...all I need to buy is any additional content they add or open up storage.character slots...or fluff. It would be really nice if they...not at once but maybe over time...added voice to all the NPCs. Of course this F2P venture would have to provide some decent cash flow for that....oh well..I can dream.
I play the game for PvE, but I don't really get all the love for the NPC voice overs. The frequency they make their appearance post Tortage is plenty for me. The only time I find them especially entertaining is when they are acted out very well and are peppered with humor and innuendo. For the most part when it comes time for a NPC to communicate, reading text is fine.
I wouldn't say that it blows, it's just very boring and lacks any sort of depth. It's a good looking game, it's just not a very well designed game.
In fact, it's the sort of game I might find myself playing for a couple of hours a month just to take a break from my main game (Vanguard: SoH). I simply can't justify playing a subscription fee (again) to play though since I would never get my money's worth out of it.
Too all the negativities, i simply can not understand what you think blows in this game? I have been playing for somewhere around 2.5 years, and i consider this game to beat all other similar mmorpgs, don't get me wrong there are mmos that are better but not in the same genre. I didn't buy the game at release since im the type of guy that likes to wait for responses before I buy games. At mid 2009 i decided to give it ago and i got past tortage blown by the experience, but got eventually dissapointed in the afterlife of tortage. So i decided to take a deep breath and atleast play it untill i reach the max level and discover the end-game. Under that timeline the game got very good balancing patches, still not perfect but enough i'd say, and new content releases, bigger bug fixes (still not 100%) etc, and any questing and/or adventures after lvl 40 was a dream due to the engine and some other stuff. At lvl 80 i can say this one with big words NEVER experienced a better end game, The raids were fun, community grown, ROTGS Hardmodes extremly fun, PVP was a scale until it got fun and the socialization, wow.
I can see that some people thinks that the game is kinda slow, that because they can't land any combos or they don't know that some spells inflict in others providing greater dmg etc. puzzles puzzles. Anyhow if the game was released at this current state it would rule the mmo market or atleast be in top 3 chain (assumption worth trolling i guess). And i can somehow see why the community is grown and lacks of "wow-players" because it's a game that takes some consideration and some patience before it realy gets good, and when people get to that point where it's fun then you will be in my situation, simply loving the game
And this is where you and I differ from the OP. We made an effort. Here's a news flash: Age of Conan is more of an old-school MMO. If you don't have the attention span to get past a day then you will uninstall. Thankfully, for us adults who desire some richer game play than the average gold fish, there is lots to learn to get into the game and jump the hurdles. I hated this game in the beginning, it's very unforgiving towards mistakes and lack of insight, but by Crom, once you learn the kinks the combat turns from hit and miss to an art form.
I will agree this is not a PvP game though. And that's what I expected years ago. Returning 3 months ago I knew I was in for a great PvE experience instead, and that is what changed my disposition to a positive one. Age of Conan takes a bit of playing to get into, and that is how it is designed. It doesn't coddle the unwashed masses or handhold the WoW reject.
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Jaghammer, lvl 80 Bear Shaman
Enjoying the richest PvE endgame in an MMO on the market.
I quit playing this game after about a month when it first came out. There were many weaknesses in the game including terrible class balance, horrible instancing and incomplete game world.
Today, I logged onto my old character for free. I had read over the years that the game had improved a lot.
Today, I found out the truth. The game is exactly the same. It still blows.
Coming back to my level 65 demonlogist was like remembering a bad dream. Everything was exactly the same except that an item mall window pops up when I first logged on.
Battlegrounds are still the same unbalanced tomfoolery. Not fun in any way.
After playing this today, I have decided that I will never play a Funcom MMO again, they are not serious about finishing their games or making sure they have sensible rulesets. Just dumb one-off game for grubbing money.
I agree 100%. For all the clowns that come here and tell us the game has changed, the problems are fixed, and it is solid now... WHAT are they talking about? The game is almost identical to the bad joke it was a month after launch. It's so bad that Funcom would have to pay ME to play it.
Such a cool IP, so many possibilities that they squandered...
I just don't understand how people can devote so much time in their ONE life on Earth playing such a garbage game... It's almost like Stockholm Syndrome. Amazing.
I quit playing this game after about a month when it first came out. There were many weaknesses in the game including terrible class balance, horrible instancing and incomplete game world.
Today, I logged onto my old character for free. I had read over the years that the game had improved a lot.
Today, I found out the truth. The game is exactly the same. It still blows.
Coming back to my level 65 demonlogist was like remembering a bad dream. Everything was exactly the same except that an item mall window pops up when I first logged on.
Battlegrounds are still the same unbalanced tomfoolery. Not fun in any way.
After playing this today, I have decided that I will never play a Funcom MMO again, they are not serious about finishing their games or making sure they have sensible rulesets. Just dumb one-off game for grubbing money.
I agree 100%. For all the clowns that come here and tell us the game has changed, the problems are fixed, and it is solid now... WHAT are they talking about? The game is almost identical to the bad joke it was a month after launch. It's so bad that Funcom would have to pay ME to play it.
Such a cool IP, so many possibilities that they squandered...
I just don't understand how people can devote so much time in their ONE life on Earth playing such a garbage game... It's almost like Stockholm Syndrome. Amazing.
I think the game has changed a lot since launch. Classes have had revamps and it does run a lot better now. The clip advertising the game on the main website makes it look like a freakin awesome game. The thing is you still have to grind to max level by yourself unless you have RL mates to force to play with you and then at max level you need to spend 3 months training AAs before most will even consider taking you to any end game content. Then theres PVP which unless you roll on the new servers where theres no Bori (thank god) you wont have a chance to even compete.
I quit playing this game after about a month when it first came out. There were many weaknesses in the game including terrible class balance, horrible instancing and incomplete game world.
Today, I logged onto my old character for free. I had read over the years that the game had improved a lot.
Today, I found out the truth. The game is exactly the same. It still blows.
Coming back to my level 65 demonlogist was like remembering a bad dream. Everything was exactly the same except that an item mall window pops up when I first logged on.
Battlegrounds are still the same unbalanced tomfoolery. Not fun in any way.
After playing this today, I have decided that I will never play a Funcom MMO again, they are not serious about finishing their games or making sure they have sensible rulesets. Just dumb one-off game for grubbing money.
I agree 100%. For all the clowns that come here and tell us the game has changed, the problems are fixed, and it is solid now... WHAT are they talking about? The game is almost identical to the bad joke it was a month after launch. It's so bad that Funcom would have to pay ME to play it.
Such a cool IP, so many possibilities that they squandered...
I just don't understand how people can devote so much time in their ONE life on Earth playing such a garbage game... It's almost like Stockholm Syndrome. Amazing.
Hmmm that's weird. That sure is a long list of content added since launch.
It doesn't matter how much content was added. They'll just argue that the whole list should have been present at launch.
I found it funny that people were still complaining on chat ..yesterday...that the voiceovers ended after Tortage. Come on. Just read two reviews or forum threads about the damn game. I guarantee one or both will have one or many people bitching...still...about this very fact. A little research before you decide to play might ease the "pain". How much would you bet ...that the same people who bitch about the voiceovers ending after Tortage are the same people going "Big Freaking Whoop!!!" to the fact SW:TOR will be 100% voiced.
Most of my complaints about AoC have to do with core design issues such as the way quests are presented on the screen, the guitar hero inspired combo system, the boring, easy-mode pve, the ugly gear, the dull and barely worth mentioning crafting system, the lack of player housing, and the lackluster quests that have utterly failed to pull me into the game world. Then there's the absolutely horrid community (and I'm talking about the PVE servers, Set in particular, not the PVP servers). The most damning issue for me is the fact that the game "feels" and plays more like a single player console game than it does an MMORPG. Obviously this is highly subjective as there are plenty of people that like these things (or, at least, aren't bothered by them) but I'm not trying to convince people that /do/ like the game, not to play. The MMO community is vast and it's a good thing that we have so many games to choose from, even if they're ones that I don't particularly like Like my grandmother used to say, "To each their own, said the man that kissed the cow".
As for the voice-overs, Honestly, I never understood the complaints about the lack of them. Personally, I hate them. I wish they didn't even have them in Tortage. I do not find them immersive, I find them disruptive and annoying because they are so bad. There are many times while playing the game that I turn off the sound rather than listen to them, such as when I am inside the inn in Tortage. Again this is a very subjective thing and I am overwhelmingly in the minority given the number of people that seem to genuinely like them.
Age of Conan is just as good as any other MMO out there right now. Not one of the MMOs can do it all, they all have strong points and short comings. It all comes down to appreciating the games strong points, which AoC does have. If you don't enjoy the games strong points and would rather focus on the gameplay or features AoC doesn't have, of course you will think the game sucks.
But to come on the AoC board and declare that the game is exactly the same as it was when it launched, hasn't changed or improved at all since then, is nothing but trolling. It is so obviously BS, that I wonder if they may be disgruntled PvPers from the Blood and Glory server that have had their head handed to them on a platter a few too many times, and they are in a sour mood about it.
AoC is an MMO, like all the rest. If you have even the slightest interest in its setting and theme, then try it. Try it out for yourself. Don't listen to anyone else.
Its free, and its waiting to be tried. Two things that appeal to me alone, right there.
Wow, all the hate. This game was my top MMO before it went F2P, but you know I think it is still great. I don't get why people hate it so much when it's obviously the best thing out there right now.
MisterSR: May I aks since you seemed to be a subscriber what has changed for you, apart from them having a cashshop now?
Obviously I can be mistaken but isn't the cashshop more meant for those who only play the F2P version and a sub has almost all acces to the game apart from some fluff stuff that aint that important?
Seems to me AoC needed a population boost which it seems to be getting with Unchained, doesn't that mean it's better for those who already enjoy the game with subs?
I agree 100%. For all the clowns that come here and tell us the game has changed, the problems are fixed, and it is solid now... WHAT are they talking about? The game is almost identical to the bad joke it was a month after launch. It's so bad that Funcom would have to pay ME to play it.
Such a cool IP, so many possibilities that they squandered...
I just don't understand how people can devote so much time in their ONE life on Earth playing such a garbage game... It's almost like Stockholm Syndrome. Amazing.
agree, saw it went F2P so figured WTF. I Dl'ed played it an hour on old toon, made a new toon played another hour then deleted it and boiled my hard drive in alcohol to make sure no remnents were left. Two more hours of my life wasted on this pile of monkey dung
I'd don't post much on MMORPG but I figured I should throw out my 2 cents to show there are still other rational posters in the MMORPG world of Hate threads.
OK, , so Age of Conan...
It had a HORRIBLE launch.
Was unfinished and required lots of grinding of MOBs to level to 80th.
The game consistent crashed for me every 30 mins, it was filled bugs, it has broken quests, and some unfinished character classes
Sieges couldn't support more than a handful of people fighting at a time and frequently crashed and many times produced the wrong result and left Keeps owned by Defenders even thouh they lodt the Seige.
So now 3 years have passed....
The game had am engine updgrade and runs GREAT, granted you need a decent systems but a top of the line system from 3yeras ago can run it on MAX. Its is easily the single best looking MMO on the Market and that art assets are 3 years old
The game is very stable, it doesn't crash and performs really well, even in complex and crowded zones.
The broken quests are fixed and there are hundreds of new quests and even new entire zones.
The character classes have been reworked andrebalanced at least twice, although there will always be posts about one class being better than another.
Seieges are better, they can still have some performance problems if you leave your settings on Max. The seiges can still haev crashing problems and honestly Funcom needs to put alot more work into them to sure them up.
Basically AoC is a PvE, questing, level based MMO. There is certainly PvP, Battlegrounds and Seiges but they are a small portion of the game. The grahpics are amazing, the storyline quests are great but the majority of the quests are like every other MMO.
The Game play is smooth, there is no auto attack and the melee combat uses a combo system that many people find difficult.
Crafting was never fully developed, it is unctional but that is about it. It isn't fun, for the most part the items aren't very useful and the gathering of resources is similar to standrd MMOs with the slight twist of Mobs spawniung on top of you while you harvest to apparently discourage botting.
If you simply didn't like Age of Conan beyond it's troubles at launch then you will probably still not like it but at least now it runs well and is a complete MMO.
For each their own when it comes to playing games...
For me AOC wasnt what funcom had hyped it up to be back in the day and even after an F2P revisit i still feel strongly that this game isnt worth 15 bucks a month but i also feel strongly that making AOC instead of AO2 was a really bad mistake by failcom..
However with that said its just my opinion as some really dig the game and as an F2P it is certainly worth the DL to find out if you like the game or not but if you played it in the day and it didnt mesh well then the chances are you still wont like or appreciate it now..
I agree 100%. For all the clowns that come here and tell us the game has changed, the problems are fixed, and it is solid now... WHAT are they talking about? The game is almost identical to the bad joke it was a month after launch. It's so bad that Funcom would have to pay ME to play it.
Such a cool IP, so many possibilities that they squandered...
I just don't understand how people can devote so much time in their ONE life on Earth playing such a garbage game... It's almost like Stockholm Syndrome. Amazing.
agree, saw it went F2P so figured WTF. I Dl'ed played it an hour on old toon, made a new toon played another hour then deleted it and boiled my hard drive in alcohol to make sure no remnents were left. Two more hours of my life wasted on this pile of monkey dung
Same here I figured well its free to play now. But the new model restricts you and gimp your player down. I was able to unlock my one toon that was in its 40's but its gimp not and the only way to ungimp your toon is to sub.
Same here I figured well its free to play now. But the new model restricts you and gimp your player down. I was able to unlock my one toon that was in its 40's but its gimp not and the only way to ungimp your toon is to sub.
There is zero difference between a subbed level 40 toon and a F2P one so i really don't get where your gripe in all this is. The differences between the two models don't appear until max level other than the class restrictions and a couple of minor things that don't affect leveling. You unlocked your lvl 40 probably meaning its one of the subsciption classes so the only difference between you and a sub player right now is bank space and only being able to hold 2G, which is more than enough at that level.
I'm not entirely enamoured of the F2P model either but it sounds like you're just hopping on that band wagon.
Same here I figured well its free to play now. But the new model restricts you and gimp your player down. I was able to unlock my one toon that was in its 40's but its gimp not and the only way to ungimp your toon is to sub.
There is zero difference between a subbed level 40 toon and a F2P one so i really don't get where your gripe in all this is. The differences between the two models don't appear until max level other than the class restrictions and a couple of minor things that don't affect leveling. You unlocked your lvl 40 probably meaning its one of the subsciption classes so the only difference between you and a sub player right now is bank space and only being able to hold 2G, which is more than enough at that level.
I'm not entirely enamoured of the F2P model either but it sounds like you're just hopping on that band wagon.
Let me explain something to you, as free to play you don't get to use your advancement tree. Before ftp I had this too you had advancement trees. When it went free to play you loose all that. So anything that you could do to add to for attacks and what not is now locked to you unless you sub back up. That makes your toon gimp, I know it sure had an effect on my DT, and I kind of thought it was funny because they said that DT were supposed be sub only, but it let me unlock it anyway.
I don't know about your definition of gimp but not having access to the trees means a free to play toon will not be as good as a sub toon.
Now if you want to come back and discuss that point to prove me wrong them im willing to listen.
Same here I figured well its free to play now. But the new model restricts you and gimp your player down. I was able to unlock my one toon that was in its 40's but its gimp not and the only way to ungimp your toon is to sub.
There is zero difference between a subbed level 40 toon and a F2P one so i really don't get where your gripe in all this is. The differences between the two models don't appear until max level other than the class restrictions and a couple of minor things that don't affect leveling. You unlocked your lvl 40 probably meaning its one of the subsciption classes so the only difference between you and a sub player right now is bank space and only being able to hold 2G, which is more than enough at that level.
I'm not entirely enamoured of the F2P model either but it sounds like you're just hopping on that band wagon.
Let me explain something to you, as free to play you don't get to use your advancement tree. Before ftp I had this too you had advancement trees. When it went free to play you loose all that. So anything that you could do to add to for attacks and what not is now locked to you unless you sub back up. That makes your toon gimp, I know it sure had an effect on my DT, and I kind of thought it was funny because they said that DT were supposed be sub only, but it let me unlock it anyywa.
I don't know about your definition of gimp but not having access to the trees means a free to play toon will not be as good as a sub toon.
Now if you want to come back and discuss that point to prove me wrong them im willing to listen.
For you to have access to AA's you'd have to have had a level 80, you said you unlocked your one level 40. Level 40's don't have any access to AA's whatsoever other than being able to get 2 points in Gateway that you cant use 'till 80.
Yes the differences at 80 are vast, but you were talking about a level 40.
Any class made whilst subbed is automatically available for unlock on F2P, hence you being able to play your DT. You just cant create the sub classes is all.
I played this game at release for 2 months, I quit because of low population when everyone started quitting mainly because of performance issues.
I came back a month ago, decided to sub instead of going f2p. I don't regret it one bit. It's running just fine at the highest setting possible (I just got a very high end computer built). I am enjoying my necro and sin. I do think that a lot was worked on since the release, and if you don't see that, then you are blind and are here just to troll.
This game is not for everyone, that I know, but it is a great game. In my opinion, if the population was higher, it would be one of the top games, but people just aren't giving it a chance.
Age of Conan is just as good as any other MMO out there right now. Not one of the MMOs can do it all, they all have strong points and short comings. It all comes down to appreciating the games strong points, which AoC does have. If you don't enjoy the games strong points and would rather focus on the gameplay or features AoC doesn't have, of course you will think the game sucks.
But to come on the AoC board and declare that the game is exactly the same as it was when it launched, hasn't changed or improved at all since then, is nothing but trolling. It is so obviously BS, that I wonder if they may be disgruntled PvPers from the Blood and Glory server that have had their head handed to them on a platter a few too many times, and they are in a sour mood about it.
Quite true. I would say that trolling is the result of frustration coming from people that bought the game in the beginning.
For f2p I don't see where you can get better than AoC.
In the p2p model there are some good games, but AoC is different enough to get my monthly euros at this point; I am tired of elfs and orcs or emo and hentais, guns and flying machines and all that kind of stuff...
I will remain in this game at least until the release of SWTOR (and TSW).
Wow, all the hate. This game was my top MMO before it went F2P, but you know I think it is still great. I don't get why people hate it so much when it's obviously the best thing out there right now.
I played the game and I did not even last the first month. Best thing out there? Sure, when it comes to put ppl to sleep. This was the most boring MMO I ever came across. Trust me on several ocasions I literally fell asleep on my keyboard, just like that. Obviously? What's so obvious? The only obvious thing for me is this game beeing the most monotonous boring tedious dull game ever created. I mean it.
Wow, all the hate. This game was my top MMO before it went F2P, but you know I think it is still great. I don't get why people hate it so much when it's obviously the best thing out there right now.
I played the game and I did not even last the first month. Best thing out there? Sure, when it comes to put ppl to sleep. This was the most boring MMO I ever came across. Trust me on several ocasions I literally fell asleep on my keyboard, just like that. Obviously? What's so obvious? The only obvious thing for me is this game beeing the most monotonous boring tedious dull game ever created. I mean it.
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I think its a great game. Granted....I don't PvP much (though i did start a toon on the new server) and almost never raid. Maybe that's why I always thought the population was fine. I never needed to raid but always found people for group quests and the chat was always flying by at a decent pace. So ..at least on SET...it seemd the population was there. For now.... It's even better imo.Plus..at some point...all I need to buy is any additional content they add or open up storage.character slots...or fluff. It would be really nice if they...not at once but maybe over time...added voice to all the NPCs. Of course this F2P venture would have to provide some decent cash flow for that....oh well..I can dream.
I play the game for PvE, but I don't really get all the love for the NPC voice overs. The frequency they make their appearance post Tortage is plenty for me. The only time I find them especially entertaining is when they are acted out very well and are peppered with humor and innuendo. For the most part when it comes time for a NPC to communicate, reading text is fine.
"The Pen Is Mightier Than The Demo"
I wouldn't say that it blows, it's just very boring and lacks any sort of depth. It's a good looking game, it's just not a very well designed game.
In fact, it's the sort of game I might find myself playing for a couple of hours a month just to take a break from my main game (Vanguard: SoH). I simply can't justify playing a subscription fee (again) to play though since I would never get my money's worth out of it.
And this is where you and I differ from the OP. We made an effort. Here's a news flash: Age of Conan is more of an old-school MMO. If you don't have the attention span to get past a day then you will uninstall. Thankfully, for us adults who desire some richer game play than the average gold fish, there is lots to learn to get into the game and jump the hurdles. I hated this game in the beginning, it's very unforgiving towards mistakes and lack of insight, but by Crom, once you learn the kinks the combat turns from hit and miss to an art form.
I will agree this is not a PvP game though. And that's what I expected years ago. Returning 3 months ago I knew I was in for a great PvE experience instead, and that is what changed my disposition to a positive one. Age of Conan takes a bit of playing to get into, and that is how it is designed. It doesn't coddle the unwashed masses or handhold the WoW reject.
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Enjoying the richest PvE endgame in an MMO on the market.
Really?? Have you even played it recently?
Try this for size:
http://www.ageofconan.com/news/new_content_since_launch
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Hmmm that's weird. That sure is a long list of content added since launch.
I guess you are wrong you guys at least in regards to amount of content.
I think the game has changed a lot since launch. Classes have had revamps and it does run a lot better now. The clip advertising the game on the main website makes it look like a freakin awesome game. The thing is you still have to grind to max level by yourself unless you have RL mates to force to play with you and then at max level you need to spend 3 months training AAs before most will even consider taking you to any end game content. Then theres PVP which unless you roll on the new servers where theres no Bori (thank god) you wont have a chance to even compete.
It doesn't matter how much content was added. They'll just argue that the whole list should have been present at launch.
I found it funny that people were still complaining on chat ..yesterday...that the voiceovers ended after Tortage. Come on. Just read two reviews or forum threads about the damn game. I guarantee one or both will have one or many people bitching...still...about this very fact. A little research before you decide to play might ease the "pain". How much would you bet ...that the same people who bitch about the voiceovers ending after Tortage are the same people going "Big Freaking Whoop!!!" to the fact SW:TOR will be 100% voiced.
Most of my complaints about AoC have to do with core design issues such as the way quests are presented on the screen, the guitar hero inspired combo system, the boring, easy-mode pve, the ugly gear, the dull and barely worth mentioning crafting system, the lack of player housing, and the lackluster quests that have utterly failed to pull me into the game world. Then there's the absolutely horrid community (and I'm talking about the PVE servers, Set in particular, not the PVP servers). The most damning issue for me is the fact that the game "feels" and plays more like a single player console game than it does an MMORPG. Obviously this is highly subjective as there are plenty of people that like these things (or, at least, aren't bothered by them) but I'm not trying to convince people that /do/ like the game, not to play. The MMO community is vast and it's a good thing that we have so many games to choose from, even if they're ones that I don't particularly like
Like my grandmother used to say, "To each their own, said the man that kissed the cow".
As for the voice-overs, Honestly, I never understood the complaints about the lack of them. Personally, I hate them. I wish they didn't even have them in Tortage. I do not find them immersive, I find them disruptive and annoying because they are so bad. There are many times while playing the game that I turn off the sound rather than listen to them, such as when I am inside the inn in Tortage. Again this is a very subjective thing and I am overwhelmingly in the minority given the number of people that seem to genuinely like them.
Age of Conan is just as good as any other MMO out there right now. Not one of the MMOs can do it all, they all have strong points and short comings. It all comes down to appreciating the games strong points, which AoC does have. If you don't enjoy the games strong points and would rather focus on the gameplay or features AoC doesn't have, of course you will think the game sucks.
But to come on the AoC board and declare that the game is exactly the same as it was when it launched, hasn't changed or improved at all since then, is nothing but trolling. It is so obviously BS, that I wonder if they may be disgruntled PvPers from the Blood and Glory server that have had their head handed to them on a platter a few too many times, and they are in a sour mood about it.
"The Pen Is Mightier Than The Demo"
^ Everything this guy just said.
AoC is an MMO, like all the rest. If you have even the slightest interest in its setting and theme, then try it. Try it out for yourself. Don't listen to anyone else.
Its free, and its waiting to be tried. Two things that appeal to me alone, right there.
Wow, all the hate. This game was my top MMO before it went F2P, but you know I think it is still great. I don't get why people hate it so much when it's obviously the best thing out there right now.
MisterSR: May I aks since you seemed to be a subscriber what has changed for you, apart from them having a cashshop now?
Obviously I can be mistaken but isn't the cashshop more meant for those who only play the F2P version and a sub has almost all acces to the game apart from some fluff stuff that aint that important?
Seems to me AoC needed a population boost which it seems to be getting with Unchained, doesn't that mean it's better for those who already enjoy the game with subs?
agree, saw it went F2P so figured WTF. I Dl'ed played it an hour on old toon, made a new toon played another hour then deleted it and boiled my hard drive in alcohol to make sure no remnents were left. Two more hours of my life wasted on this pile of monkey dung
I miss DAoC
I'd don't post much on MMORPG but I figured I should throw out my 2 cents to show there are still other rational posters in the MMORPG world of Hate threads.
OK, , so Age of Conan...
It had a HORRIBLE launch.
Was unfinished and required lots of grinding of MOBs to level to 80th.
The game consistent crashed for me every 30 mins, it was filled bugs, it has broken quests, and some unfinished character classes
Sieges couldn't support more than a handful of people fighting at a time and frequently crashed and many times produced the wrong result and left Keeps owned by Defenders even thouh they lodt the Seige.
So now 3 years have passed....
The game had am engine updgrade and runs GREAT, granted you need a decent systems but a top of the line system from 3yeras ago can run it on MAX. Its is easily the single best looking MMO on the Market and that art assets are 3 years old
The game is very stable, it doesn't crash and performs really well, even in complex and crowded zones.
The broken quests are fixed and there are hundreds of new quests and even new entire zones.
The character classes have been reworked andrebalanced at least twice, although there will always be posts about one class being better than another.
Seieges are better, they can still have some performance problems if you leave your settings on Max. The seiges can still haev crashing problems and honestly Funcom needs to put alot more work into them to sure them up.
Basically AoC is a PvE, questing, level based MMO. There is certainly PvP, Battlegrounds and Seiges but they are a small portion of the game. The grahpics are amazing, the storyline quests are great but the majority of the quests are like every other MMO.
The Game play is smooth, there is no auto attack and the melee combat uses a combo system that many people find difficult.
Crafting was never fully developed, it is unctional but that is about it. It isn't fun, for the most part the items aren't very useful and the gathering of resources is similar to standrd MMOs with the slight twist of Mobs spawniung on top of you while you harvest to apparently discourage botting.
If you simply didn't like Age of Conan beyond it's troubles at launch then you will probably still not like it but at least now it runs well and is a complete MMO.
For each their own when it comes to playing games...
For me AOC wasnt what funcom had hyped it up to be back in the day and even after an F2P revisit i still feel strongly that this game isnt worth 15 bucks a month but i also feel strongly that making AOC instead of AO2 was a really bad mistake by failcom..
However with that said its just my opinion as some really dig the game and as an F2P it is certainly worth the DL to find out if you like the game or not but if you played it in the day and it didnt mesh well then the chances are you still wont like or appreciate it now..
Playing GW2..
Same here I figured well its free to play now. But the new model restricts you and gimp your player down. I was able to unlock my one toon that was in its 40's but its gimp not and the only way to ungimp your toon is to sub.
There is zero difference between a subbed level 40 toon and a F2P one so i really don't get where your gripe in all this is. The differences between the two models don't appear until max level other than the class restrictions and a couple of minor things that don't affect leveling. You unlocked your lvl 40 probably meaning its one of the subsciption classes so the only difference between you and a sub player right now is bank space and only being able to hold 2G, which is more than enough at that level.
I'm not entirely enamoured of the F2P model either but it sounds like you're just hopping on that band wagon.
Let me explain something to you, as free to play you don't get to use your advancement tree. Before ftp I had this too you had advancement trees. When it went free to play you loose all that. So anything that you could do to add to for attacks and what not is now locked to you unless you sub back up. That makes your toon gimp, I know it sure had an effect on my DT, and I kind of thought it was funny because they said that DT were supposed be sub only, but it let me unlock it anyway.
I don't know about your definition of gimp but not having access to the trees means a free to play toon will not be as good as a sub toon.
Now if you want to come back and discuss that point to prove me wrong them im willing to listen.
For you to have access to AA's you'd have to have had a level 80, you said you unlocked your one level 40. Level 40's don't have any access to AA's whatsoever other than being able to get 2 points in Gateway that you cant use 'till 80.
Yes the differences at 80 are vast, but you were talking about a level 40.
Any class made whilst subbed is automatically available for unlock on F2P, hence you being able to play your DT. You just cant create the sub classes is all.
I played this game at release for 2 months, I quit because of low population when everyone started quitting mainly because of performance issues.
I came back a month ago, decided to sub instead of going f2p. I don't regret it one bit. It's running just fine at the highest setting possible (I just got a very high end computer built). I am enjoying my necro and sin. I do think that a lot was worked on since the release, and if you don't see that, then you are blind and are here just to troll.
This game is not for everyone, that I know, but it is a great game. In my opinion, if the population was higher, it would be one of the top games, but people just aren't giving it a chance.
I played the game and I did not even last the first month. Best thing out there? Sure, when it comes to put ppl to sleep. This was the most boring MMO I ever came across. Trust me on several ocasions I literally fell asleep on my keyboard, just like that. Obviously? What's so obvious? The only obvious thing for me is this game beeing the most monotonous boring tedious dull game ever created. I mean it.
What game(s) are you playing?