Age of Conan

I like and hate AoC at the same time. The only reasons i still play till this moment is I paid 80 bucks for it and Im kinda force feeding my self to play it in hopes for it to turn into something i can stomach. The game is fun at first but then it fizzles. It is missing that hang out factor to it. coh you have atlas park, swg you have the cantinas, MxO had those nice clubs to hang out in and have fun in. What the heck is my drinking cape for? its also missing the /duel command i would like to spar with friends to try different things out. well i dont know maybe just maybe it will get better I will keep my hopes up

Whi is DX10 so important? excuse me for not being a techie! but the game runs fine for me without it, so is there any reason i need it to run DX10?

Same here only 56 so not played any large scale pvp.

pvp rewards should be a priority. no point otherwise.

drunken brawling could be fun if they added it :).

other than that is anything "broken" as some claim? i havent experienced anything broken other than minor bugs. though i agree new content should be high on thier list too.

Originally posted by shukes33

Whi is DX10 so important? excuse me for not being a techie! but the game runs fine for me without it, so is there any reason i need it to run DX10?

Same here only 56 so not played any large scale pvp.

pvp rewards should be a priority. no point otherwise.

drunken brawling could be fun if they added it :).

other than that is anything "broken" as some claim? i havent experienced anything broken other than minor bugs. though i agree new content should be high on thier list too.

The thing is it was PROMISED! A lot of people went and upgraded their computers to support DX10 yet theres no point now.

Ahh i see, doesn't apply to me though as DX10 is an upgrade for other things for me too. I play other games and do other things with my pc so DX10 was a waste for me :) oh ye and i upgraded too but for some reason AoC still works with a little dx9 patch and DX10 still works on other games.

I promised my missus id be back for tea but ended up late....still with her! glad shes more forgiving than most of us :)

I agree DX10 is no big deal but it was part of Funcoms hype for their game

AOC DX10 vs DX9

www.legitreviews.com/article/487/1/

Had 2 accounts, both cancelled due to unfixed bugs, new bugs and broken attempts at fixing balance issues, etc.

Will look again when they have stopped messing stuff up, i.e. in about 6 months time if the game is still there...

/cancelled

/cancelled

Originally posted by ajm563

I cancelled as well.  Not because of the bugs or the missing features, I cancelled for one reason....

It wasn't fun for me.

Bugs and missing features I'm used to with MMOs.  Lord knows it happens alot with newly released MMOs.  The first 20 levels of AoC were ok and some of the quests were good.  But I wasn't really happy with the classes, and the game is too melee focused for my tastes.

So, if you're enjoying it then more power to you.  It just wasn't right for me.  In fact due to my disappointment with AoC, I've decided the following: 

     - Never preorder a MMO again

     - Never buy a CE edition

     - Never play a new MMO until the reviews are in

This had to be one of the games I looked forward to the most... only to be disappointed by the game itself.

Same here.

I was more dissapointed with no leather map in CE (just a rubber map on piece of cloth).

I also hit the cancel button. I loved it the first 50 levels or so but it gets old and boring after that. Too many bugs and lag spikes for me to stomache. The crafting system is a total bust. This mmo will last for a year or 2, then prolly put funcom out of business because no one is paying to play this pos.

Originally posted by Hamrtime

I also hit the cancel button. I loved it the first 50 levels or so but it gets old and boring after that. Too many bugs and lag spikes for me to stomache. The crafting system is a total bust. This mmo will last for a year or 2, then prolly put funcom out of business because no one is paying to play this pos.

Seems you're not the only one to leave , If you are who I think anyway . If a bunch of old SWG customers can't stick it out there is definitely something wrong.

Originally posted by shukes33

Whi is DX10 so important? excuse me for not being a techie! but the game runs fine for me without it, so is there any reason i need it to run DX10?

Same here only 56 so not played any large scale pvp.

pvp rewards should be a priority. no point otherwise.

drunken brawling could be fun if they added it :).

other than that is anything "broken" as some claim? i havent experienced anything broken other than minor bugs. though i agree new content should be high on thier list too.

Tech-wise DX10 provides a number lightiing improvments and some other things as well but the lighting is one of the major things.  This is actually a fairly Big Deal as far as looks, especially in places like a forest.

Promise wise DX10 requires a Vista which is not only a different OS than people people have but Vista combined with AoC high demands means you probably need 4GB of ram and many people would probably seriously consider upgrading their computer.  So reneging on this promise very almost no warning had serious consequences for those people whom it affected.

DX10 is not necessary, but it does have it nice points.  For those people who are either habitual early adopters or really wanted to see the kind of graphics DX10 would pop they essentially got bent over and well you know the rest. 

Did everyone spend major money to upgrade their system? No.  But some people did and there were some decent reasons to want DX10.  And those people who did got Charlie Brown'ed by Funcom.

Here I will hold the football for you, just kick it *wink* *wink*

Personally I would not have upgraded my system for DX10 but I certainly see how some people would since they rate graphics higher than I do in importance.  They got screwed and really for no good reason except to maintain the hype that AoC was more revolutionary than it was.  AoC let them make expenisive purchases based upon their repeated promises to avoid bad press.

Certainly DX10 is a expensive investment that many people would not have done but DX10 does provide noticeable and unqiue lighting improvements which a subtle but powerful affect on ascetics.  So its not like some graphics upgrade where you say "Er there is no difference between 40 FPS and 60FPS you just want tot  turn it up to 11, Nigel".  And after all AoC is the steak of the MMORPG world.