First sorry if I make any mistake , english is not my natural language.

As the title say I have reach lvl 80 and now I see what's behind the so called story line and those beautifull graphique.

I am going to be hard but the game seems pretty much over when you reach lvl 80 , I grind a lot of ressources , try to up my job unfortunatly it was bugged so I could not do it.

Ho well not a big deal they will solve this with new patch in the future let's look for a lvl 80 map to grind a little and explore ......... there are none , not a single map lvl 80 woops ..... The only one I found was actualy from a quest but it was élite so could not go there alone but still it was the only one.

There are absolutly no content at lvl 80 guys nothing to do at all in a PVE server , in a PvP well FFA PvP is just not my cup of tea , ganking poeple all day must get boring anyway.

You are going to say what about instance ? I have tried 1 at lvl 80 but really did not enjoy it that much , didnt fell anything spécial.

I fell like I have been riped off with a nice front but behind it there is nothing.

Now go on and say whatever you want to defend the game but keep in mind I was one of the poeple who was looking forward to it , I played a lot of MMO and I was really hopping this one could be the best so I am falling from very high and I am so disapointed.

Last point there are very good idea in this game but it was only a front to attract poeple nothing more , well I had fun for about 2 weeks now and will be leaving  the game.

sounds like you got your moneys worth for buying the game - but not a mmo to make a home in

have a fun summer

Umm..no offense but you do realize its an mmorpg? What I mean by this is...you , in my opinion, played the game with the completely wrong mindset, you rushed to hit level cap. Why? YOu should have known the endgame wouldn't be ready for you if you are one of the first there. Endgame in mmorpg usually requires 10+ people.

I haven't even broken level 29 yet with my 4 characters and you come along and try to tell me its a slap in the face? Not to me my friend. I'm enjoying it. Are there things that can be improved, fixed, etc.? Of course. show me one mmorpg that doesn't have that. bah, i'm done, you rush to 80 and then blame them for making it a front end game. Please, don't play WAR when it comes out, I don't want to hear you there either.

i think more content will be added. Also guild wars and siege battle's. Building up a huge city with your clan. Of course they will add level 80 content later. But they got enough bug fixing atm to concentrate on it. Also they doesent concern about people with no life that sit all day long and reach level 80 before they expected it.

You really got too much time and too few friends if you play so much. Im sorry. But i follow you in you are bored if all you do is sit in there all day.

Patience. Quit and come back ½ year later. Rest of the players will take long time about reaching level 80. So we do not concern about something we do not reach before some time.

Try joining a Guild and concentrate on building it up to be more powerfull or something. Otherwise move on.

 Im only level 21. And i had this game since release. So if it gives you any idea about what normal people are at. You see there's a long time before we are at level 80. Sure i seen people at level 60 but i guess they are around the same type of people as you are. its summer. there is a sun out there and problaly a family or so to go to the beach with and have some fun with. You can always play Age of conan. But you can't always be with your family. and some day your parents are gone and you realize what a waste of time you had loving a game more than spending time with them.

I just do not understand people like you. But this is my opinion. and i hope you get a point out of reading it.

Have a nice day

I'm not sure how someone can get to lvl 80 without reading the quests & running around exploring. I've spent about 5 days on Tortage, reached lvl 21, then went to the mainland after that. I've now spent 2 days on the mainland doing quests. And now my character has only gained 1 level. 

How does someone get to lvl 80 in 2 weeks? I can only assume that you'd have to skip the reading part. However, I'm only new on the mainland, so who am I to say.

Originally posted by dolphin666

I'm not sure how someone can get to lvl 80 without reading the quests & running around exploring. I've spent about 5 days on Tortage, reached lvl 21, then went to the mainland after that. I've now spent 2 days on the mainland doing quests. And now my character has only gained 1 level. 

How does someone get to lvl 80 in 2 weeks? I can only assume that you'd have to skip the reading part. However, I'm only new on the mainland, so who am I to say.

Hehe your experience so far sounds so much like mine :D

Originally posted by dolphin666

 I've now spent 2 days on the mainland doing quests. And now my character has only gained 1 level. 

for me,

it was very easy to go from 20 to 25 in less than 8 hours

(doing solo quests - no grinding or grouping)

Apparently they are adding a content patch soon that will add more end game content. Such as 3 sets of armour per class to collect, better itemisation, and more quests.

Right now there probably is not any due to the fact that the average gamer is more than likely not even half way to 80 so it is better to prioritize the bug fixes, crashes etc first rather than worry about the very small minority that is level 80 after just a week.

I am not defending the game btw, the amount of bugs, crashes, and loading screens is really pissing me off at the moment, the game seems to have a lot of potential ( from the small gaming sessions I have before it crashes lol)  but it is hard to experience it with the amount of problems it has(majority have nothing to do with technical problems, but hopefully they will be fixed such as the poor UI for example, and lack of bag space).

They are deffinatly client errors btw because others on the technical forum are reporting the same things with better rigs than mine. Such as a memory crash that keeps happening, which I was hopping would be fixed when I upgrade my computer tomorrow, but I just read a 9 page thread with people complaining about the same problem and they have much better computers.

Oh, and since you played to 80 and it kept you occupied until then, then it probably was not a total waste of money.

Originally posted by Nadia

 

Originally posted by dolphin666

 I've now spent 2 days on the mainland doing quests. And now my character has only gained 1 level. 

for me,

 

it was very easy to go from 20 to 25 in less than 8 hours

When I mean 2 days, I guess I meant to say 5 hours per day.  I guess I also like to run around & explore also. So far from my limited experience, I can't imagine going to lvl 80 in 2 weeks.

Originally posted by dolphin666

I'm not sure how someone can get to lvl 80 without reading the quests & running around exploring. I've spent about 5 days on Tortage, reached lvl 21, then went to the mainland after that. I've now spent 2 days on the mainland doing quests. And now my character has only gained 1 level. 

How does someone get to lvl 80 in 2 weeks? I can only assume that you'd have to skip the reading part. However, I'm only new on the mainland, so who am I to say.

If that is the only toon he played I can see him making it in 2 weeks. I see him as being like me playing one and only one class at a time. Not making 4 toons and playing all them at the same time all you doing is repeating. If a game is released it should have something for it highest level to do not just oh we going to add it later that's stupid to me.

Originally posted by elocke

Umm..no offense but you do realize its an mmorpg? What I mean by this is...you , in my opinion, played the game with the completely wrong mindset, you rushed to hit level cap. Why? YOu should have known the endgame wouldn't be ready for you if you are one of the first there. Endgame in mmorpg usually requires 10+ people.

I haven't even broken level 29 yet with my 4 characters and you come along and try to tell me its a slap in the face? Not to me my friend. I'm enjoying it. Are there things that can be improved, fixed, etc.? Of course. show me one mmorpg that doesn't have that. bah, i'm done, you rush to 80 and then blame them for making it a front end game. Please, don't play WAR when it comes out, I don't want to hear you there either.

Actually there are 10+ poeple that has Nolife just like me and we have been in contact to do things together , some of them still have hope that new things will come out soon , and some others just see it as I do , the game came out at least 4 month too early.

Its always good to see poeple with so much faith as you do , I was one of them until I realize I was actually wrong , now dont get me wrong I did have fun playing the game it was cool.

You can say all you want about my life or whatever but it does not defend the game and as no point at all.

I dont know about your server but in mine , in about a month we will have at least 40+ lvl 80 easy maybe more so I really wonder what will keep them playing the game , no one will make me believe they will add that much content in 1 or 2 month when they have so much bug to deal with.

I play in Euro server and I had early acces 6 days before the actual launch , I have pretty much explore all I could , I did build a city with my guild.

Originally posted by nobion

You really got too much time and too few friends if you play so much. Im sorry. But i follow you in you are bored if all you do is sit in there all day.

Have a nice day

 

now i'm going to do something that people will flame for ... even if  most of them don't understand that we as humans  need a reference board .

I am going to use two really different kind of MMO's.

First SWG, in it's first instalment, a "sandbox" MMORPG, that really had low dev made content and where "leveling" was basicly done by grinding. In a way the scenario in AOC past lvl 55 or so reminds me of SWG, in the sense we get some really empty areas with mobs and nothing else. The difference is that on SWG we had "player content", a network of crafters and sociabilities. After maxed out I could go to theme parks, or cantinas to see entertainer players, change my appearance with image designers, equip myself  going to shops, be extravagant and ask tailors to create wicked cloths, start my own crafting or harvesting business, even explore all the POI (places of interest)  or simply go after that special place to build my player house. Raids on rebels cities and overall ganking/ zerging were also possibilities.

so after being maxed the players still had several things to do.

In AOC i'm very limited on what I can do at lvl 80 atm. Really, only the people that are already high level know there is really low content between 65 to 80, And deve made end game is almost non existant. with the mess that crafting is atm, only end game possible is to collect materials/resources/cash for the guild and/or ganking. and thats it.

the second comparison will probably get me even more flamed but,, it is unavoidable... yes WOW. Now WOW is like the inverse of SWG. Best items are droops or loot, there is like 0 player made content,

Now I have not played WOW in a long time... like +2.5 years, but yet i remember that there was not a shortage of quests, In fact I remember reaching 60 and having dozens of quest to do , with pretty good rewards (for that stage of the game)  .  And, there were 3 or 4 instances (no 40 man raid content at that moment).

Now,  conan is supposed to be quest driven, like wow in a way.  the "social" possibilities and autonomy of a sandbox game are not present. You either have content or you don't. 

AOC doesn't atm. It is irrelevant if content can be added after. I am sure it can, but I need the content now, not next month. By not having it, my playing experience as a paying customer has been affected.

The game is good. But it fails on the upper echelon. And i'm on the upper echelon. And as more people get on that upper echelon they will complain. what kind of effect that will have on the game, I don't know. Hopefully they will add content yes,

question is if  I and many others  will wait for it or not . They should not have realesed the game without upper level dev made content.  Because we will whine, with reason, about the lack of content.

While I dislike blizzard concept and it's current flagship, WoW,   fact is that same flagship was overall ready for launch. I might not have liked the content it had, but was there. Out of the box that cursed game was in terms of content, ready, and so it cathered for power players, meta players, causal players, normal players, slow players, fast players.... all of them had a  chance to really get a piece of the action.

 Thats why the game skyrocketed.

And it is getting really old this days many MMORPG's are being released in the state AOC is. And even worse that most of us even accept this with the excuse that "mmorpg evolve over time": OFC they will but the basics should be covered since release.

To use a methapor, it is like some of those IT corporations that spawned over last 3- 4 years: they try to sell the future, or their vision of the future, now, and expect us to pay, but forget one thing, the future has not happend yet. 

/end of rant

Ps: let me re inforce this ideia: the game is good. I am not an AOC hater. BUt i'm not a fanboi also. I am a 30 year old guy that due to health circunstances had the time to power level faster than the usual player. Only to find out that there was a void at the end of the road. And that shouldn't happen.  Because I paid at the moment i got the game. my payment was not added in the future like the promisse of content is.

^^ Exactly true. AoC has amazing potential but currently is not release ready even though its on the shelves.

Originally posted by elocke

Umm..no offense but you do realize its an mmorpg? What I mean by this is...you , in my opinion, played the game with the completely wrong mindset, you rushed to hit level cap. Why? YOu should have known the endgame wouldn't be ready for you if you are one of the first there. Endgame in mmorpg usually requires 10+ people.

I haven't even broken level 29 yet with my 4 characters and you come along and try to tell me its a slap in the face? Not to me my friend. I'm enjoying it. Are there things that can be improved, fixed, etc.? Of course. show me one mmorpg that doesn't have that. bah, i'm done, you rush to 80 and then blame them for making it a front end game. Please, don't play WAR when it comes out, I don't want to hear you there either.

They should have that done before launch. People will say the funniest things to defend something they like.

Your blaming the customer for playing the game he payed for, and telling him to accept the fact the game is not finished. That's amazing. wow, what some people say.

Originally posted by convict

 

Originally posted by elocke

Umm..no offense but you do realize its an mmorpg? What I mean by this is...you , in my opinion, played the game with the completely wrong mindset, you rushed to hit level cap. Why? YOu should have known the endgame wouldn't be ready for you if you are one of the first there. Endgame in mmorpg usually requires 10+ people.

I haven't even broken level 29 yet with my 4 characters and you come along and try to tell me its a slap in the face? Not to me my friend. I'm enjoying it. Are there things that can be improved, fixed, etc.? Of course. show me one mmorpg that doesn't have that. bah, i'm done, you rush to 80 and then blame them for making it a front end game. Please, don't play WAR when it comes out, I don't want to hear you there either.

Let me get this straight... We're now expected to play mmo's slow in order to give the devs time to "finish" or catch up on higher level content?

 

They should have that done before launch. People will say the funniest things to defend something they like.

Your blaming the customer for playing the game he payed for, and telling him to accept the fact the game is not finished. That's amazing. wow, what some people say.

Fair enough... Let me ask you this... Have you ever liked ANY MMO?

Has the OP?

The EXACT same threads get recycled for EVERY MMO.

In development you have the slavish fanboy types screaming about how ALL PREVIOUS MMOs will now be irrelevant.  You also have the eternal cynics saying "IT WILL FAIL"

Once it is released you have the guys who max out in 1 week complaining about lack of endgame followed by guys who defend the devs and say "NO LIFE LOSER!" and then guys like you who say "THE GAME IS UNFINISHED!"

Meanwhile, all along, people scream at the devs to have no bugs, fully finished game, get the thing out yesterday, etc.

If a game takes too long in development, people lose interest, stop caring, move on to the next hype, etc.

The real deal is that most of us are selfish, whining, short attention span, a-holes.  

A dev team would have to have a deal with the devil and a magic wand to please the type of person who posts about MMOs on an internet forum.

Blizard has kind of proven that they dont need to though.  They can just produce a fun game and ignore the types that are only happy when they are bitching.

Originally posted by mlambert890

 

Originally posted by convict

 

Originally posted by elocke

Umm..no offense but you do realize its an mmorpg? What I mean by this is...you , in my opinion, played the game with the completely wrong mindset, you rushed to hit level cap. Why? YOu should have known the endgame wouldn't be ready for you if you are one of the first there. Endgame in mmorpg usually requires 10+ people.

I haven't even broken level 29 yet with my 4 characters and you come along and try to tell me its a slap in the face? Not to me my friend. I'm enjoying it. Are there things that can be improved, fixed, etc.? Of course. show me one mmorpg that doesn't have that. bah, i'm done, you rush to 80 and then blame them for making it a front end game. Please, don't play WAR when it comes out, I don't want to hear you there either.

Let me get this straight... We're now expected to play mmo's slow in order to give the devs time to "finish" or catch up on higher level content?

 

They should have that done before launch. People will say the funniest things to defend something they like.

Your blaming the customer for playing the game he payed for, and telling him to accept the fact the game is not finished. That's amazing. wow, what some people say.

 

Fair enough... Let me ask you this... Have you ever liked ANY MMO?

Has the OP?

The EXACT same threads get recycled for EVERY MMO.

In development you have the slavish fanboy types screaming about how ALL PREVIOUS MMOs will now be irrelevant.  You also have the eternal cynics saying "IT WILL FAIL"

Once it is released you have the guys who max out in 1 week complaining about lack of endgame followed by guys who defend the devs and say "NO LIFE LOSER!" and then guys like you who say "THE GAME IS UNFINISHED!"

Meanwhile, all along, people scream at the devs to have no bugs, fully finished game, get the thing out yesterday, etc.

If a game takes too long in development, people lose interest, stop caring, move on to the next hype, etc.

The real deal is that most of us are selfish, whining, short attention span, a-holes.  

A dev team would have to have a deal with the devil and a magic wand to please the type of person who posts about MMOs on an internet forum.

Blizard has kind of proven that they dont need to though.  They can just produce a fun game and ignore the types that are only happy when they are bitching.

You got it wrong , poeple are only happy when they are bitching ? dont make me laught.

I did play the game and I did see what it's like , did you ? did you reach lvl 80 ? did you see the whole game witch is actually quite small when u see it from a lvl 80 point of view ? What I bring here is Fact it's not called bitching its simple fact.

The game was simply not ready to launch and that's it , what's so difficult to admit here ?

And since I was a part of poeple that was looking forward to this game you just cant say I am one of the type you are trying to describe above , or I would be a few of the them since my opinion changed.

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Originally posted by mlambert890

Fair enough... Let me ask you this... Have you ever liked ANY MMO?
Has the OP?

The EXACT same threads get recycled for EVERY MMO.

In development you have the slavish fanboy types screaming about how ALL PREVIOUS MMOs will now be irrelevant. You also have the eternal cynics saying "IT WILL FAIL"

Once it is released you have the guys who max out in 1 week complaining about lack of endgame followed by guys who defend the devs and say "NO LIFE LOSER!" and then guys like you who say "THE GAME IS UNFINISHED!"
Meanwhile, all along, people scream at the devs to have no bugs, fully finished game, get the thing out yesterday, etc.

If a game takes too long in development, people lose interest, stop caring, move on to the next hype, etc.

The real deal is that most of us are selfish, whining, short attention span, a-holes.

A dev team would have to have a deal with the devil and a magic wand to please the type of person who posts about MMOs on an internet forum.
Blizard has kind of proven that they dont need to though. They can just produce a fun game and ignore the types that are only happy when they are bitching.

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