Age of Conan

I hope AoC turns out to be a great game, but I wouldn't quit other games I was enjoying currently just because of the anticipation, unless you wanted to save a couple months subscription fees to help purchase the box when its released 2 months from now.

Currently, I'm unsubscribed from all MMO's, partly due to financial reasons (But I just got a new job so that's going away!) and partly due to boredom. Since I gave up my "hard core raider lifestyle", I've found most games don't cater to a casual player in any meaningful way. LOTRO was fun for a month, until I hit the "You must group to finish these 4500 quests" wall at about 35 (which they said they have fixed, but oh well too late for me). And WoW, fun to go back to from time to time to blast things, but my chars are so woefully undergeared at 70 that even thinking about a heroic instance kills me.

To op, I'm not in beta but have been awaiting this title just as you but my wife walked into the room during a prieview of the game on tv and said, "Why is it laggy?, Why are the horses moving like that?" I could only say well babe, it's beta. But if the game runs like that on those computers now and it's coming out when and some people have high end machines will it be the same? She want's to play, I want to play, and family wants to play but will it match the hype-factor.

Beta testers feel free to respond in detail :)

if i had a choice between AOC, and warhammer id pick AOC seems more my style and caters to the more realistic visuals of gameplay as well as environment in general. War just looks nothing more than a darker and gritter PVP centric version of WOW. not my cup of tea. but from what im hearing both are going to be near $20 a month so i may pass both up and continue playing EQ2.

Originally posted by nakuma

if i had a choice between AOC, and warhammer id pick AOC seems more my style and caters to the more realistic visuals of gameplay as well as environment in general. War just looks nothing more than a darker and gritter PVP centric version of WOW. not my cup of tea. but from what im hearing both are going to be near $20 a month so i may pass both up and continue playing EQ2.

AoC will be your standard $15 per month. You can pre-order gamecards for that price right now :)

Blizzard should be very concerned about the games coming out this year.   It should give the MMORPG community warm fuzzies knowing that Kaplan and Chitlon are losing sleep as they question whether they should have shifted WoW's focus to tedious Instance raids or hardcore guilds back when the game was still in beta.

They're realizing their mistake now and trying to fix WoW, but AoC should be one of those games with strong PvP making them lose sleep

Originally posted by andmiller

I can't believe someone who posts about over-hyped games, like in paragraph 1, would then post about the "awesomeness" of darkfall.  At least over-hyped piles of crap like Vanguard and Dark and Light actually got released!!

Agreed.  

Vanguard...*Shivers*

 I'm going to stay on wow for now, since is popular and best option for now. I do think WoW will get challenged this year the most. If not AoC, then Aion or Warhammer.

 But I think all of the mentioned games will have smooth releases.

 I can't wait ti play AOC, but I'm still at WoW for now. Not much else to play out there. I think WoW has done a lot wrong and they will lose a lot of subs because of it. But it's mostly entertaining.

I am waiting for AOC as well but frankly Im done with over anticipating a new game.  After being let down by VG and Tabula Rasa I will just take my time with AOC.  Ill play parttime at first, read the feedback and keep an eye on how the game develops.  I am currently playing WOW and raiding so I am in no rush to leave everything I have worked on behind. 

I truly hope AOC turns out to be all it says.  I do beleive Funcom has the no-how to pull off something successfully but then again so did McQuaid and Garriott .  We will just have to see.

That's about one of the badest idea's I've ever heard. What if you really don't like Age of Conan... But I do hope the game will be awesome beacuse I'm want it so desparetly.

AoC won't even come close to WoW...  If it gets EQ2 numbers, they will be lucky.  Remember Vanguard?  I hate to say it, but this game will be in worst shape then Vanguard when it will get released.