After much debate I've decided that AoC just isn't ready and at lvl 57 it just isn't fun.  I've posted a number of reviews and gone through the full spectrum of being a hard core fan to being a disallusioned player.  lvl 1-20 made me think this game was great.  Now not so much....

Maybe I'll check back in a month or two but for now I'm off to other games.  EQ2 is top of my list followed by Vanguard in August/Sept when they have a number of big enhancements and the new trial island launching.

So till then have fun!!

Bye ethion. Have fun in Eq2 and we may bump into each other in Telon in a few months, who knows. 

Folks still play eq2?

eq2 is actually a very good game.  I like it more then wow.

Take care Ethion sorry it's not working out for you. Hope you find a home elswehere or hope if you try back you find it more to your liking in a few months :).

EQ2 and Vanguard both suffer from a huge lack of players and SOE needs to merge some servers (With EQ2 at least).  Normally when I pick a server I get on at my prime time for playing and make a character on all the servers available and check with /who all, or find players, or whatever options the devs give to find the server that fits me best.

EQ2 at MY prime time (Weird time because I like the mornings more than nights) didn't have one server with over 350 people playing.  The PVP server my chars were on had 33-50 players the few times I checked.  At est nighttime I checked and I only found one server with over 500 people playing on it.

I'm sorry but with worlds that big that kind of population is unacceptable for an MMO.  They need to merge, and find a way to bring new blood into the game.

Originally posted by Precusor

Folks still play eq2?

yes there is a number of people still playing,  quite a few medium load servers and a heavy load.  its quite easy to group too!

With all the update that Funcom is doing I bet you will be back soon.

We don't care

Originally posted by Precusor

Folks still play eq2?

If you ever played it you can play it now for free next 2 months!!   I bought it and played for like a week before I started WoW but now IM gonna enjoy new content and expansions in EQ2 until something decent comes out !!!  And its totallly free !!

Originally posted by AOCtester

Originally posted by Precusor

Folks still play eq2?

 

If you ever played it you can play it now for free next 2 months!!   I bought it and played for like a week before I started WoW but now IM gonna enjoy new content and expansions in EQ2 until something decent comes out !!!  And its totallly free !!

.. and it's totally empty!!!  Are you really going to keep the name AOCtester??

Originally posted by twistedvenom

With all the update that Funcom is doing I bet you will be back soon.

sure, they're doing a lot of fixes. for example, they broke assassins today.

lvl 70 mobs got their HP doubled, good luck soloing now guys.

Originally posted by ProfRed

EQ2 and Vanguard both suffer from a huge lack of players and SOE needs to merge some servers (With EQ2 at least).  Normally when I pick a server I get on at my prime time for playing and make a character on all the servers available and check with /who all, or find players, or whatever options the devs give to find the server that fits me best.

EQ2 at MY prime time (Weird time because I like the mornings more than nights) didn't have one server with over 350 people playing.  The PVP server my chars were on had 33-50 players the few times I checked.  At est nighttime I checked and I only found one server with over 500 people playing on it.

I'm sorry but with worlds that big that kind of population is unacceptable for an MMO.  They need to merge, and find a way to bring new blood into the game.

I'm not sure what you are talking about.  There seem to be plenty of people to me.  What's most important to me is that reguardless of the population eq2 is like 100x easier to get a group then in AoC.  I've never had to wait more then an hour or so and while I wait there are lots of things to do.  In the last week I've been trying to get a group to do cistern and having no luck at all.  I even made a group which took over an hours and wasn't really functional in the end.

but anyway I'm not here to fight about it.  there is nothing wrong with eq2 if you want to do groups and run with other people.  I don't know anything about pvp so whatever you say there might be right on.