By the way, ya know those traps that they're mentioning? Yeah, they're not new.  My wife and I left AoC over 3 weeks ago, and we had been in those dungeons/experienced those traps over a month ago.  I love how they try to impress the non-players with news that players (that lvl beyond 50) know/have experienced.  AoC was my wife's and I largest disappointment this year.  AoC started out pretty fun, but it didn't take long for the sheen of the combat to lose it's luster in the smoke/dust of bugs, crashes, memory leaks, lack of content.  We headed back to WoW because Blizzard seems to be about the only MMO out there that brings the best of all MMO's to players.  I for one want to *play* a game, not *work* my butt off to the point where it feels like...well...*work*.  I work 5-6 days a week.  I don't want to spend my *off-time* doing 2-hour corpse runs or having my hard-earned experience *stolen* from me by the imminent death of my toon.  :P  Enjoy whatever game you choose to play, I say.  Mine just happens to be World of Warcraft...with my wife :P.

Funcom killed my wife and raped my dog and fed my babies to a devil. In truth all I did was lost 50$ and little of my time but I'll still hold grudge forever and dedicate my e-life to hating Funcom.

lol I have never seen so delusional dev company as Funcom....only semi polished content in AOC is noobie island of Tortage rest is epic unplayable crap

I always thought this game selling point is  the huge pvp, which is what got me into it.... why add more RAID-or-die instances???

Originally posted by Popori

Expansion.........really?

 

Age of Conan: Gameplay

Ret: $29.99

Pre-order now and we can prolly even keep the servers open long enough to release it.

HAHAHAHAHA

i have only 1 question why the hell all the ppl  who post bad things and dissapoiments about AOC are ex wow players , for god sake you don't like it anymore u don't wanna play anymore DON'T play it, i am really starting to belive that u are getting payed for this trash talk , again nobody come and sayed U HAVE TO BUY AOC , u bought it by your own will and like all games were u preorder u were awere by the risk

PS: i like the game i like the way it works on my computer and i like the way the funcom is trying to  rezolve the in game problem

ps: the traps u are talking about they are not yet in game they are some though that look's like it ( on the first epic boss u have to fight for your global quest u can't kill the blood thing if u do not kill the mini boss near the altar )

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I just want to say that I played WoW for about a week, so lets get this out of the way.

When I bought AoC I bought it for the expansive PvP combat: Seige Battles, Epic PvP. When there actually wasn't any of this I was sad , but they kept telling me that it would come in the next update... well not actually this next update... ohh wait lets try a Seige Battle...and there was too many people so the game crashed... well not in this update either... well I quit.

I got tierd, so I quit, easy as pie. Am I sad, yes. But now I am not angry everytime they promise to bring specific, documented, game-making, content, and don't deliver.

Originally posted by warchid

i have only 1 question why the hell all the ppl  who post bad things and dissapoiments about AOC are ex wow players , for god sake you don't like it anymore u don't wanna play anymore DON'T play it, i am really starting to belive that u are getting payed for this trash talk , again nobody come and sayed U HAVE TO BUY AOC , u bought it by your own will and like all games were u preorder u were awere by the risk

PS: i like the game i like the way it works on my computer and i like the way the funcom is trying to  rezolve the in game problem

ps: the traps u are talking about they are not yet in game they are some though that look's like it ( on the first epic boss u have to fight for your global quest u can't kill the blood thing if u do not kill the mini boss near the altar )

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As to AoC, it is already an after thought, just another blip in a long line of mediocre games.  Seems that the industry is swooning a bit.  Let's hope that this is only temporary and some good games will come our way. 

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AoC is still bugged and still incomplete and they are planning an expansion.... Get you heads out of your asses Funcom fix the bugs finnish adding/opening up the content on the game then think about expansions.......

*EPIC FAIL*

Originally posted by warchid

i have only 1 question why the hell all the ppl  who post bad things and dissapoiments about AOC are ex wow players , for god sake you don't like it anymore u don't wanna play anymore DON'T play it, i am really starting to belive that u are getting payed for this trash talk , again nobody come and sayed U HAVE TO BUY AOC , u bought it by your own will and like all games were u preorder u were awere by the risk

PS: i like the game i like the way it works on my computer and i like the way the funcom is trying to  rezolve the in game problem

ps: the traps u are talking about they are not yet in game they are some though that look's like it ( on the first epic boss u have to fight for your global quest u can't kill the blood thing if u do not kill the mini boss near the altar )

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What does beeing an ex-WoW player have to do with not liking a game? I'm an ex-DaoC player also, same with an ex-EQ'r. What's that get me? You can like whatever you want to like, but don't be blind to the real facts. This game had great potential, but Funcom is slowly drawing the fun out of the game. You tell me how much fun it is to run around adding up decimals. Oh wait, armor doesn't mean anything right? You know gemmed gear ...... I was, and still am a fanboy of this game, which is nothing bad. Because being the fan of something shouldn't be considered a bad thing. But the company needs to quit feeding this crap to promote a game that has alot of issues. Maybe not with you, but with alot of other people.

All I want Funcom to do is anty up. Take responsibility for the problems they cause. Let people know they bit the big one. Quit trying to make themselves look good when every fact goes against that. Talk about the REAL issues with the game. Instead of some dam community letter feeding us cake. For christ sake, look at all the new concept art and whatnot. Why is that same effort not being put into the huge lack of armor diversity in-game. Yes they are the same dam freaking departments and same group/team. You remember how many armor sets they said they have in-game. Well they are all there. But they look EXACTLY THE SAME. As stated, I feel bad for Famine. Funcom failed with AO and Age of Conan was there chance at redemption. So yeah, still waiting ..........

I want to end with this. Funcom talks about being such a great company. Want to know a step in the right direction? Get a Customer Support phone number. You live in 2008, this should have been in place. This would be a step in the right direction for all those people who cancelled and got re-billed. You can't sit here and justify emails as working as intended. I mean seriously, how stupid do you think customers are. It doesn't take a full team to read emails yet it takes you guys weeks to answer them with a generic messege. Amazing, huh? :(

Wow...guess the wife and I bailed at the right time...

Still looking for a game that can combine the tactics and graphics of Eve, the player crafting of DAoC and/or WoW, the global/continental FPS territorial conquest of Planetside... maybe I should start writing it myself... should only take about 10 years

If the entire game was as polished as Tortage, we'd have a game worthy of praise.

We have a company that doesn't understand it's audience, and practically refuses to add content to keep people interested.

I, like others cancelled my CE account shortly after that first month. AoC may have topped retail sales (as in sales to stores, not copies sold), but they have failed in providing the game we were told they'd be making. Came back lately... same damn problems, same lack of consistency (barely any VO's versus Tortage's 90% VO quests).

So seriously Funcom... who were you talking to at Leipzig? It certainly wasn't your fanbase.

AoC was fun for the first 20ish lvls then I think the lore started to get thin and the zones a bit light on content, the biggest issue I had was the fact it became a solo game  after leaving the island - what is it with mmo's that dont want to encourage any form of grouping? - I mean even WoW has its dungeons instanced for fun - but the option to turn most places into soloable ones kinda killed the social aspect of the game.

I'm dissapointed at AoC's game focus but It was only a few $$ and although Im not playing currently -
(solo games dont interest me) Ill keep an eye out and see how the game progressess

really those that are gnashing and wailing about the evils of funcom are being silly, its just a game company, would you expect your PR people to come out and say - this game sucks, dont buy it??

Originally posted by ZDPhoenix

If the entire game was as polished as Tortage, we'd have a game worthy of praise.

We have a company that doesn't understand it's audience, and practically refuses to add content to keep people interested.

I, like others cancelled my CE account shortly after that first month. AoC may have topped retail sales (as in sales to stores, not copies sold), but they have failed in providing the game we were told they'd be making. Came back lately... same damn problems, same lack of consistency (barely any VO's versus Tortage's 90% VO quests).

So seriously Funcom... who were you talking to at Leipzig? It certainly wasn't your fanbase.

They just don't know what to say anymore.

- The level50+ content issue. He is repeating his PR promise crap about this new zone over and over. Failcom promissed this zone back in May that it would be added in July! Who are they trying to fool still?

- DirectX10. Now they admit the boxes were already printed when puling out the feature! While they kept their mouth shut before and after Early Access release till 2 days before official release!! They kept their mouth shut until they were sure they had sold enough boxes!! Bastards! Who are they trying to fool still?

- They now admit the Dungeons are crap, way too easy and need some challenge and improvement. Well hello. We were saying that since early access back in may!! Who are they trying to fool still?

What about the new PVP system? How long are they going to delay it? It's delayed for almost 3 months already! lol.

What about the Siege PVP that's still broken? lol.

Working on an expansion? Yeah right. Don't think people will be eager to pay for an expansion any time soon! They rather have the game fixed and all the content and features first that were promissed!

Maybe somewhere in the year 2010 they can start thinking about an expansion! lol.

We gave it a real chance, they just did not give us the real game.

To little to late.

And so it begins ... I knew it would happen. They have finally dumbed down a game to the point where the players are now saying ... "make it more challenging". I knew that they would keep dumbing down games till it got to this point.

no expansion for me.. 

im paying too much already , 15 € for a unbalanced and unfinished game..

I have only pain playing this game.

FAILCOM !!!

Why would a company announce an expansion to their MMORPG that they've been working on a couple months after releasing the game itself? Especially when:

A) There's already numerous flaws and bugs in their game that still need attention, and

B) A lot of that stuff were meant to be in the game at release.

I just can't stand the crap these idiots at Funcom keep spitting out. Stop making games and just go away already.

I didn't play AoC but from reading the posts on here it doesn't seem like I'm the only one scratching my heading going, "You're really already talking about an expansion."  What they're trying to say is, "Hey guys we just realized that if we wait eighteen months to release an expansion there's going to be nobody left to buy it.  So we took all this content that was going to be in the basic game at launch, repackage it as Expansion:  trails of a poorly managed company and we'll sell it back to you at 29.95." Way to go! 

On a side note you guys really gotta stop being so hungry for wow's downfall.  I read it on here every day: "OMG this game is going to be sooo much better than wow.  OMG your dumb because your playing a game that has a simple easy to understand interface behold my nerd rage!"  The only thing this accomplishes is pepole buying poor wow knock off because YOU, meaning the people of these boards, tend to take their hype at face value.  Do yourselves a favor you really want to know what a game is like test it.  SIgn up for betas.  Then try to be objective.  Meaning several times during the course of the game honestly ask yourself, "Am I having fun" if the answer is yes then post your great big nerd rant on the boreds about how big a joygasum you just had playing age of warhamercraftgate:  revenge of the litch ring.  If not then keep your mouth shut or else the Fans' will getcha. 

If for some god forsaken reason you are dumb enough to post an honest and objective review on these boreds whatever you do just let it stand.  DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES argue with the fan boys on here.  You cannot win.  It doesn't matter that they've only seen screenshots.  It doesn't matter that you've been testing Eve of the Planetside Fanatsy XI for 12 months they don't care.  What they care about is that somewhere outthere there's a game thats better than their mom telling them they need to take out the trash because we all know mom rep is easy to get.

MV out

I just canceled my account and will be frozen in 2 days. I'm preparing for WAR. I hope, just hope AoC brings something new. After hitting lvl 80, the fun factor was going down hill, but I have my fingers crossed.

Originally posted by BigMango

Originally posted by CreepingDoom

Originally posted by Laserwolf

Good MMORPG. Good Launch. Could be Great.

Are you describing AoC? because that sure isn't the game I've played since beta.

Poor launch, stability issues and crashes are abundant to this day, latency spiking through the roof, billing errors and funds being taken after cancellation has already gone through, etc..

I certainly don't agree with it being a good mmorpg, nor stable in the least, and my system is freshly built (not a walmart special).

 

Then I suggest you return your new system (or maybe learn how to build one properly?). Because my system is 1 year old (c2d 6400 2.13ghz, geforce 8800gt, 4gb ram) and I have no stability issues, no crashes, no latency spikes and no billing errors.

AoC runs very well on my system, even MUCH better than the 4 years old EQ2 at max settings. EQ2 is 4 years old and still runs like a dog with all of the settings maxed (but its of course playable). AoC's game engine is much better, it delivers better graphics with better framerates. Compared to EQ2 (at max settings) which was tweaked and improved during 4 years, AoC feels smooth and fast.

And I'm no AoC fanboi either. I'm not playing anymore since end of June (haven't subscribed after my 30 days) as I'm waiting for the promised features (dx10, new pvp system and high level content) to resubscribe.

Yer, you need a fast processor for EQ2. Duel / Quad doesnt matter, 3.0 or higher should get you running maxxed out with no problems. I get 70fps in all zones, sometimes up to 130fps, maxxed out all settings. Looks 100% better than AOC, and as you say, its 4 years old. Shocking really.

Originally posted by SunwolfNC

Wow...guess the wife and I bailed at the right time...

Still looking for a game that can combine the tactics and graphics of Eve, the player crafting of DAoC and/or WoW, the global/continental FPS territorial conquest of Planetside... maybe I should start writing it myself... should only take about 10 years

 

 

Lots of good stuff coming 2009-2010.  KOTOR, STO, Earthrise, StarGate Worlds among others.

Originally posted by MrVice

I didn't play AoC but from reading the posts on here it doesn't seem like I'm the only one scratching my heading going, "You're really already talking about an expansion."  What they're trying to say is, "Hey guys we just realized that if we wait eighteen months to release an expansion there's going to be nobody left to buy it.  So we took all this content that was going to be in the basic game at launch, repackage it as Expansion:  trails of a poorly managed company and we'll sell it back to you at 29.95." Way to go! 

On a side note you guys really gotta stop being so hungry for wow's downfall.  I read it on here every day: "OMG this game is going to be sooo much better than wow.  OMG your dumb because your playing a game that has a simple easy to understand interface behold my nerd rage!"  The only thing this accomplishes is pepole buying poor wow knock off because YOU, meaning the people of these boards, tend to take their hype at face value.  Do yourselves a favor you really want to know what a game is like test it.  SIgn up for betas.  Then try to be objective.  Meaning several times during the course of the game honestly ask yourself, "Am I having fun" if the answer is yes then post your great big nerd rant on the boreds about how big a joygasum you just had playing age of warhamercraftgate:  revenge of the litch ring.  If not then keep your mouth shut or else the Fans' will getcha. 

If for some god forsaken reason you are dumb enough to post an honest and objective review on these boreds whatever you do just let it stand.  DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES argue with the fan boys on here.  You cannot win.  It doesn't matter that they've only seen screenshots.  It doesn't matter that you've been testing Eve of the Planetside Fanatsy XI for 12 months they don't care.  What they care about is that somewhere outthere there's a game thats better than their mom telling them they need to take out the trash because we all know mom rep is easy to get.

MV out

I tried WoW.  My son was a GM for Blizzard and I played from Alpha to release.

I really *tried* to like the game.  WoW is wonderful pablum for the masses.  It's fun and easy to play for everyone, even people new to MMOs and/or casual players.

Personally, I couldn't get past the feeling my character and the graphics looked straight out of the comic strips in the Sunday Funnies.  It's very hard to like a game if you hate how it looks.  Another thing I didn't like is the grind for the best equipment. 

WoW is fine for the casual social butterflies who are happy with it and who don't want to invest time and energy in another MMO.  They're happy playing with their spouse and friends in a simple, very familiar environment.  Nothing wrong with that. 

But for many, in spite of expansions and tweaks, WoW is .. well, WoW.  Many avid MMO hobbyists have moved beyond it.   Friends who had stayed with WoW, over the last year or so,  have since quit as well because WoW answer for end game is a huge time sink at the higher levels doing raids. 

yeah, to bad all those new exciting additions to the game that are supposed to make things funner like those amazing traps they talked about were already in the fu@#ing game!!!!!!!!!!!!