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Originally posted by Inzra
People said the game was great, and got explained that sure the game is good up to lvl 20, then it sucks.
Well I've had fun past 20 as well, there's been enough questing to do, and although PvP xp hasn't been enabled, it's still fun to PvP.
Then didn't someone say: - just wait till you get past lvl 40 and see how shallow the game is.
Well, I'm now lvl 47, - I don't level fast, I'm more the casual player that can be offline for a day or 2 or 3 - and at this point I'm now really starting to feel that I'm playing an mmorpg:
- the levels doesn't come as fast anymore, naturally since it's higher lvl. I still haven't run out of quests, like I got the impression from others that I would. It hasn't been necessary to grind at all yet. It will be interesting to see if this continues past lvl 50 and up.
I trust less and less what other people tell me about the game, and more and more what I actually experience in it myself.
As for the bugs they have been very few, I've so far had 3-4 quest related bugs. One of them was serious in that I got stuck in a single player mode, but I contactd customer support, and that seemed to help. The other quests, I've been told can be done by entering epic mode when you enter the area.
There have been some bugs with grouping/guild windows, but it usually gets fixed after staying online for a certain amount of time.
As for the the customer service, I guess they are a little short handed, but my actual experience is this:
I petitioned a quest problem, about 1-2 hours later a GM appeared, - this isn't too unusual time compared to WoW, that I've also played and they took about the same time more or less -
the GM was friendly and helpful, and solved my problem in a few minutes, and that was that.
Since I started playing back at 17. may, I've only experienced serious disconnecting problems on 2 days, fearly recent. One of them they had to take the server down, the other they managed to have it online. A little annoying ofc, but only 2 days of 1,5 month of playing after release. Nothing game breaking for me anyway.
There are still occasional lagspikes, I have no idea what causes it, but I think it has to do with the server/gameclient, cause many are experiencing them, they only last for a couple seconds normally. So the important thing is that they don't interupt gameplay significantly. I'm not sure of the exact intervalls, but maybe every 30 min or so, maybe more rare. I hardly notice them most of the time.
So all in all I'm really starting to enjoy AoC, and this just goes to prove, - for me anyways - that if you want to find out wether a game is gonna be fun for you or not, you have to try it yourself. You can't have other people doing it for you.
So if you want to try AoC I would recommend it, - if you don't want to risk wasting money, wait for the buddy keys to be enabled, but realise that that might take a long time. I preordered the game, and I still see no signs of buddy keys I can share.
I get the feeling that this game might suit the casual player more, since it is faster leveling.
And although people have said that it's PvE focused, I still get the feeling it's more of a PvP game, with the more hands-on combat and fast leveling.
Well I'll stop here before this turns into another review
But remember, don't let anyone else but you make up your mind about a game you haven't tried yourself yet
well its nice that they can satisfy at least the most casual of gamers, because that's also about all they seem to be able to satisfy.
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