Well, I don't agree with you Antarious, but I have seen times when the things you talk about have popped up.  I've seen the most of it, surprisingly, on the Bossiney cluster.  A couple months ago my guild moved back over to Devon cluster and some things seem better.  But really, I have felt for several years that most of the "old" games suffer from similar problems to what you have described.  I don't think you could paste the label just on DAOC.

I quited DAoC for a far far far better pvp game, namely Age of Conan.

Originally posted by xxlilDevilxx

I quited DAoC for a far far far better pvp game, namely Age of Conan.

i almost choked on breakfast.

DAoC was my 2nd mmo after EQ, had a lot of fun in it. I actually stopped playing sooner than i wanted because my guild broke up (RL friends). Started up again after a year with new friends and quit several months later due to time constraints. Looking forward to RvR action in WAR more than anything.

Have to wonder when you played because the crafted items have always had much beter stat's specially after the spell crafting was added.  LGM (revered) Armor Crafter.

I quit DAOC for two reasons:

1)  I'm not all that into PVP.

2)  I mistakenly made the assumption that better games would be coming out from 2003 onward and have been wrong for 5 years.  By the time I recognized my error, I was too far behind to get back into the game and its population was flaggin from too many drastic changes.

However, I always admired the seriousness and beauty they put in the world's design and in-game music, plus the weapon and armor graphics were awesome and still superior to those found in many newer games today.

Dark age of Camelot was quite simply the greatest MMO to date.

Originally posted by Sain34

Dark age of Camelot was quite simply the greatest MMO to date.

It's all opinion, of course, but I'd give top MMO awards as follows:

Combat System:  DAOC

Weapon/Armor graphics:  DAOC

Music:  (tie) EQ/DAOC

World:  EQ (pre-Luclin, of course), but DAOC wasn't bad

I quit DAoC because it was losing too many members and I had friends playing CoH.  After a few months of CoH I went back to DAoC and there just wasn't enough people to make it as fun as it was.  I tryed WoW, Vanguard, and EQ2, but none of them were close to as much fun as Dark Ages, so instead of paying for a dying DAoC, I saved that 15 bucks a month to get a new laptop to play WAR with.

I played DAoC from Beta 1 through ToA. I remember exploring Forest Savauge and Snowdonia the very first day the Devs put them in play. For whatever reason, I was the only one there at the time, and I really enjoyed the solitariness of the experience. I had an excellent guild with genuinely thoughtful folks, and had a really good time (even when slaughtering thousands of trees out in Lyonesse to help others level to 50). It was a great game...until ToA. Then things just got weird.

Played from beta until just after TOA released and relealized the direction the game was headed was not for me.  I also had problems with the constant nerfs midgard seemed to get daily and hated area affect spells!  Must say i had a blast though and love how War is bringing back that RvR feeling that only DAoC had.

I played DAOC from launch until a few months after ToA. Then I came back when classic servers came out and played for another year or so. The biggest thing that killed it for me was cross-realming. I am ready for Warhammer Online and would play DAOC again off and on if they have a dual sub for both games.

Mythic chosing to nerf classes.   If developers are unable to balance their game without mindless nerfing, or cave into the whiners who lack skill and ability to develop strategy, then I cancel my subscription.

I think all MMOs built upon the foundation of PVP will suffer from this issue.   They are not about implementing a skill based game that rewards creativity and tactics.   The developers are about maintaining the largest population possible and this means dumbing their pvp down to give the masses a chance at winning.

Therefore the lowest common demoninator, the zerg, determines who wins in a skilless PVP environment.

Guild Wars or Eve have far better pvp environments.    So I cancelled DAOC and know that WAR will suffer the same fate.

Shitty 1999 interface and slow pace of game that bored me to tears in EQ duplicated with different skins..

*thumbs down*

Did I play DAOC? Yes

Why did I leave?  A wise man once said, "when you come to the end of a book, close the book"

Played it on and off since launch. Except for the lack of balance, I liked the game a lot. But lack of population on my servers caused me to finallt lay it to rest.

Lack of players, death of New Frontiers, servers merge, LoS casting exploits, radar.

Was fun before all that tho.

I played DAoC when it first came out and quit shortly after Trials of Alantis. I couldn't bear the thought of leveling items and whatnot. so I left for SWG/WoW/CoH. I think DAoC has the best RvR around and I have tried a ton of mmo's (more the above mentioned). If War is anything like DAoC, and I hope it is, then I think it will do fine. However I am a little peeved that "Greenskins" have only 1 flippin orc now (when I think of Greenskins, I think of orc's,  goblins are the farthest thing from my mind). Sorry I'll save my remarks for the correct post!

  Dark age had by far the best end game of any mmo to date imo.

I quit DAoC after 7 months of play because of the radar hacking/cheating. If you didnt cheat, you couldnt compete in RvR really. Mythic did nothing about it, so they lost me as a subscriber.