Age of Conan

Basically I am a dissatisfied WoW player.  I really enoyed the original WoW but TBC not as much.

Every patch WoW has become more and more casual.

I would say Blizzards current target market is bored housewives instead of real gamers.

Anyway I cancelled my WotLK preorder, and just placed an order for Age Of Conan Collector's Edition.

I have heard positive buzz about this game but have a few questions:

1)  Will there be a robust raid endgame?

2) Will there be real WPvP?

3)  Are they going to pander to bored housewives and other casuals?

I.E. does everyone get the best gear in the game for free? 

TIA

I am looking forward to having a place to go so I can leave WoW.

Originally posted by krinkled

Is this going to be a casual carebear game?

Hope so, some of us have lives outside of a MMO.

lol i wouldnt say this is gonna be a carebear game at all..  the endgame is focused alot around pvp  

yes there are raids

if you play on a pvp server then yes it will be open world pvp

i Highly doubt that bored housewives are going to be playing..    from wat ive seen most dont like blood and gore all to much but i could be wrong about that lol...

no i dont think everyone will get the best gear for free...                     but none of this is for sure till the game is released cuz   or you get into beta..

Well if decapitations=care bear...then yes!

Originally posted by krinkled

Basically I am a dissatisfied WoW player.  I really enoyed the original WoW but TBC not as much.

Every patch WoW has become more and more casual.

 

I would say Blizzards current target market is bored housewives instead of real gamers.

 

Anyway I cancelled my WotLK preorder, and just placed an order for Age Of Conan Collector's Edition.

 

I have heard positive buzz about this game but have a few questions:

 

1)  Will there be a robust raid endgame?

2) Will there be real WPvP?

3)  Are they going to pander to bored housewives and other casuals?

I.E. does everyone get the best gear in the game for free? 

 

TIA

 

I am looking forward to having a place to go so I can leave WoW.

Er, you really can't be playing WOW and call anyone or anything a Carebear you know.  Unless you're out here playing EVE, Shadowbane, or some other PVP game with strong consequences for death penalties you're best leaving the word out of your vocabulary.

But, no, I think AOC will be a broad spectrum game, with 80 regular levels to grind through, (probably a bit tougher than WOW was pre-TBC), 20 levels of PVP to acquire, plus the PVP servers are going to be a more vicious place, much more so than WOW is (I hope). 

As to whether everyone gets the best gear or not, why so elitist?  Who cares what gear people get, this is a game, let everyone have some fun.  Can't you just enjoy driving a Lexus and not worry if anyone else owns one too?

Originally posted by krinkled

 

1)  Will there be a robust raid endgame?

Yes, very much so.  Sieges, guild built cities, & a tiered Raid system.

2) Will there be real WPvP? 

There's supposed to be open pvp servers where it can happen everywhere and normal servers where its only in borderland areas.   Plus your PvP level is completely a seperate part of the game from your PvE level.  You never have to PvE if I understand it correctly or vice versa.

3)  Are they going to pander to bored housewives and other casuals?

Absolutely not.  This game is being geared for the Conan Fans & well in my view guilds, there's stuff for people to do guildless but the really cool stuff is all based around guilds.

I.E. does everyone get the best gear in the game for free? most definitly no.

 

I dont know to much indepth about Age of Conan since its not the kind of game I'm looking for but it sounds pretty hard core with some stuff for casual to do but the focus is most definitly not casual.  They'd be crazy to turn it around too since it'd peeve off the IP people & the Conan Lore fanatics (which is who this game is being made for more than anything. )

Originally posted by krinkled

Basically I am a dissatisfied WoW player.  I really enoyed the original WoW but TBC not as much.

Every patch WoW has become more and more casual.

 

I would say Blizzards current target market is bored housewives instead of real gamers.

 

Anyway I cancelled my WotLK preorder, and just placed an order for Age Of Conan Collector's Edition.

 

I have heard positive buzz about this game but have a few questions:

 

1)  Will there be a robust raid endgame?

2) Will there be real WPvP?

3)  Are they going to pander to bored housewives and other casuals?

I.E. does everyone get the best gear in the game for free? 

 

TIA

 

I am looking forward to having a place to go so I can leave WoW.

  Carebear has nothing to do with time spent. It's more arguable that houswives that pvp are less carebear then you. Raiders are the epitemy of carebear.

Shadowbane is far from Carebear, and yet it's casual friendly at the same time. EQ is a more carebear game, but it's not casual friendly.

With the advent of battlekeeps being obliterated after people spend many weeks building them up, there are going to be some very noncarebear elements to AoC. I can almost hear the WoW and EQ people crying already after losing all their stuff.

Originally posted by Kyleran

 

 

Er, you really can't be playing WOW and call anyone or anything a Carebear you know.  Unless you're out here playing EVE, Shadowbane, or some other PVP game with strong consequences for death penalties you're best leaving the word out of your vocabulary.

But, no, I think AOC will be a broad spectrum game, with 80 regular levels to grind through, (probably a bit tougher than WOW was pre-TBC), 20 levels of PVP to acquire, plus the PVP servers are going to be a more vicious place, much more so than WOW is (I hope). 

As to whether everyone gets the best gear or not, why so elitist?  Who cares what gear people get, this is a game, let everyone have some fun.  Can't you just enjoy driving a Lexus and not worry if anyone else owns one too? 

I'm with Kyle.  Maybe it's just the games I played prior to WoW, but I don't understand where people like the OP get their mentality from.  I am looking forward to the PVP aspect as well as having the ability to get lost in the world of Conan and I have not bothered even thinking about gear.  If the gear they had were just burlap sacks and wooden training swords that would be all fine with me as long as the pvp is fun, and the world is large and I can get lost in it.  I couldn't care less if there were bored housewives playing the game, or if Kyle is driving a Lexus that rich bastard