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Asherons Call 2 has been a great gaming experience
broly
Member Posts: 10
Ac2 has given me a great experience. I love the great combat system, and teh great graphics for a MMORPG, i like the crafting system, Maybe solo hunting can get a little boring some times. I like how u can join a allegaince and a kingdom. Sure there will always people that will keep on trying to make this game look bad when it isnt. U guys wanna know why the low population. Its because Asherons Call 2 hasnt advertise since it was released, intill now. Im sure SWG, DAOC wouldnt have near its amout of people playing it if i wouldnt have ever advertise.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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Crafting 2.0 should do a great deal for the economy of the game (which is pretty much nonexistant, currently).
It will introduce crafted items that are 99% as good as the best possible loot items (which are extremely rare) thereby insuring people will want crafted equipment, without removing the thrill of finding that 'uber leet death sword'.
Combined with their always awesome graphics, monthly content, and fantastic community. More than ever, now is the time to try out AC2
If Turbine can truly take what Microsoft destroyed and turn AC2 into what it should of been... then I will say it's a good game...
I've seen this game hit rock bottom... and I was playing it then...
What will he do next?
One thing that I really enjoy about AC2 that isn't often mentioned is the complete lack of elves. Honestly, I'm tired of seeing them all over the place and the hordes of them named as closely as possible to Legolas.
Played AC2 for quite a while, then took a break for a few months. Tried some other games, but eventually came back to AC2. I'm a pretty casual player these days, and AC2 does me just fine. Most of my time is spent questing.
Ac2 was my first mmorpg and I gotta say I loved every minute before the level 30 grind lol but it was still great just too bad too little people play it. I find myself going back every now and than to play this is one of the best mmorpg ever made in my opinon ,but i dont know if its my comp. or if its something else but it would lag sometimes and i mean really bad lag ,but anyways this is deffinatly one of the best out there
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Vendor buy us all a decent MMORPG bank guards recdu recsu
Vendor buy us all a decent MMORPG bank guards recdu recsu
Don't dislike a game because the people aren't friendly. I have yet to play a MMORPG where at least 50% of the people are nice. I don't judge the games by the people that play them but by the game itself. Otherwise I would never play another online game. You have to be able to enjoy solo and then the community seeps into you and a few nice people become your friends. I personally enjoy the fact that these games reflect the pesonalities of real world people. Most people in real life aren't nice either.
If you want to talk about advertising, AC2 did indeed have advertising. In fact it had MORE advertising than SWG, and DAoC.
- AC2 got a coverstory in a major computer magazine.
- AC2 is the ONLY MMORPG to ever give away a free CD/CD code inside every issue of a major magazine. Like force feeding the game to the readers LOL!
- AC2 also had a TWO PAGE interview story in a major magazine.
- AC2 also had TWO PAGE advertisements in every major computer magazine. The ad showing the nerdy, geeky, lonely, young white guy, with an old outdated "bowel" hairstyle, in bad need of a haircut, all alone at his job after everyone else left, playing AC2. Outside his window is an AC2 dragon.
- AC2 had roughly 50,000 accounts the first 3 months it was out. 1 year after release it sunk to 6,000 to 12,000 accounts. Right now it still has the same numbers. What will happen when the rest of the big boys get released?
AC2 has low account numbers because the older MMORPGs are just as good. Because AC2 was horribly incompleted the first 6 months. And it is still incompleted right now! (One of the most major features of the game is still not in it!). And during the first 6 months players found some super-major exploits and never got punished aka got to keep ALL gains they made after the exploits were taken care of. New players playing the PvE part of the game are affected less by the players who made good off the exploits. But new players playing the PvP part of the game are in bad straits if they fight another player who made good off the exploits.
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I agree. I think we should be given the names and addresses of everyone who plays so that we can go round and kick the shit out of them when they KS us, or whatever.
M.
As soon as I posted that last message, I logged onto AC2, found an alliegance of very nice and helpful people, and got into a fellowship in New Arwic Mines that stayed there killing drudges until every member got the hammer to finish the quest with. A level 30 character was there buffing us and answering our questions about the game and stuff too, and when we went back to town she gave me a spiffy suit of yellow armor that made my HP regen rate go up by a lot. Then I got with some more people and did the Arwic, Lost Wish, and Esper vaults. Since there are so many lowbies coming in now, all of us that were doing the same quests kept in touch with tells and helped each other find stuff.
I feel really dumb now. All of a sudden I like the game a lot, and I might stick with it after the trial expires.
Vendor buy us all a decent MMORPG bank guards recdu recsu
Vendor buy us all a decent MMORPG bank guards recdu recsu
Ok, since this topic has come back up yet again, I wanted to share a post in a previous thread again on my entire AC 2 experience, this is just a repaste of a post I did some time ago. Oh and btw, as for the comments on why the population is so low is becasue of lack of advertisement, thats actually very untrue since I was there to witness the server and population numbers go farther and farther down and witness 2 server merges. They had a rather large client base to start for an unadvertised game and then lost 90% of that client base due to game problems. Anyways, here is what I had to say...
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I thought I would give my take on AC 2 since I have played it at several different times, those times starting at release and lasting about 3 months, then ending and since then, about every 6 months I load it back up (with great pains to my hard drive space since I run SCSI and a planned install and patch while I sleep). I am posting this and parting from the thread, I wont be coming back to read follow ups or reply to anything, this is just MY AC 2 experience as it stands. So if you wanna flame, fine, everyone else but me can read it.
When I first got into the game I thought it absolutely fantastic. Some people will say the graphics are horrible in it, I beleive those are the same type of people that only want more realistic and not more immersive. The starting quests I thought were excellent after a satisfying character creation. I got all my stuff, the initials quests at the time took you til about level 6ish before you actually had to think and really LOOK for objectives on your quests. No problem, I do try to engage my mind from time to time, however, around level 11 you were sunk. there was a huge quest gap from it til 15 and then another one after that leaving you wondering what to do with very little knowledge of the land. About this time it got miserable. Spawns weren't enough to keep going where I was, there was too little people in game to try to find a fellowship to go along with and basically there was no one to talk too. The chat systems were lacking (this was before the huge chat system glitch that left players unable to chat at all for months) and the interface wasn't good enough to just make it easy for you to figure out what all there was for chat availbility. The interface to me lacked in other ways, yes, I know you can have 4 chat windows, you can make them whever opacity you like, etc etc etc. And those chat windows were horrible to configure, easy to knock around, and a real PAIN if you messed them up to get them back right.
They were releasing "episodes" monthly adding content to the game. Firstly from a development perspective this is an insane concept, by doing so you ARE admitting that you are going to beta test with your paying user base. You can NOT develop a large patch monthly and make sure it meets all the requirements of all patches to fix your last patch/episode and make sure it runs smoothly. Its bad business and so turbine found that out when they were stacking problem ontop of problem with episiode releases. This got so bad it got to the point where players lost all chat except local "say" ability for atleast 2 months I beleive. Not to mention these little story lines at the beginning of each new episode for you to watch which was their answer to a continueing story line and content were so elementary it was insulting. A 5th grader would enjoy it, me at 33 found it rather insulting that that lowsy little script and a few still images were their content updates. I was very dissapointed.
As I continued to level trying to get myself high enough to do my next quest, which the game left me VERY short of being able to do, even in a fellow I started realizing I was getting very bored. Then as time went on I began to realize WHY. There is nothing but hunting or going to do a dungeon so you can see one of those really lowsy little movie productions. You dont even go bank, there are no banks, there isn't even a town to go hang out, do alittle shopping, look for a new item you wanna buy, NOTHING. All you got is what you loot and when you loot it you can cash it in for gold right there on the spot. Tell me how this is supposed to be appealing? Nowhere to go, one dead town looks like another dead town, you cant even enter any building on the map. By now this may have changed, but I am sorry, this rebuilding thing at startup was horrible, if they wanted the players to see the rebuilding happen before they could intereact with the towns and use buildings and see / shop off NPC's, they REALLY should have made that more an interactive process. You had 1 npc in a town that was the town warden or something of that manner. It got really old exploring the map, the only thing new was the mobs that were abundant and made it impossible to travel the roads since run was no longer a skill you could put points towards. OH an d using the portal system like in AC1 was rather nightmarish as well because of the way much of it was labeled, and the map on the game was not very good or friendly to use, it was extremely slow and clumsy.
The game had its strength's, such as the graphics, second to none. The sound was impressive as well. The quests were reminiscent of AC 1 and entertaining, but once again. However the quests go dry rather quickly on you, you go from having purpose every level to no purpose at all and then get into the level grind, in a place that doesn't feel like home, its just another chunk of woods on the map, all of which you feel you have no centralization in.
All in all, I feel Turbine failed horribly in AC 2 as a whole. They made an engine for no car so to speak. They do however make fantastic engines, they just have no concept of what players truly do want (that is obvious from the gross level of player loss, you can try to argue it if you wish, but the facts state themselves), and instead of correcting it they insist on keeping it how it is. AC 2 COULD be a remarkable game, but it would take a complete concept redo to me to get it there, which is a shame, I did love playing it visually.
I did keep up with the forums some in between times I would leave it and come back and still some now. I have seen they have done some rather drastic class balancing and fixed alot of the gaps. I don't know much on specifics anymore on what has changed.
I hope this is helpful to someone or atleast understood. You don't have to agree with everything I am saying, alot of it is opinion, but you do have to acknowledge alot of the fact in it as well.
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