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The main theme is; Several things could be better (especially sieges if you ask me), but for the time being, there's no better mmo out on the market. 

Fast paced action and great graphics...

Original thread here

I'm happy with it. A few things could make it better like you said. Right now it is my game of choice along with Champions. Both are on the back burner as far as playtime due to school.

As long as I can find people to group with and the game is stable I am happy with it. Looking forward to 1.06.

Almost by definition the people that are currently paying to play the game are going to be to some degree happy with it.

A more accurate picture of the quality of the game would have to refelct the vast majority of people who've tried it and weren't happy with it.

Enjoying my stay in AoC. Gonna take me a good 6 months to get my chars tiered, and at that time I might just wanna raise my HoX and BS which are stuck at 50ish so I'll have another 6-9 months to gear them up :)

I raid 2-3 hours a day, and that pretty much cover my gaming time.

Originally posted by dhayes68

Almost by definition the people that are currently paying to play the game are going to be to some degree happy with it.

A more accurate picture of the quality of the game would have to refelct the vast majority of people who've tried it and weren't happy with it.

By definition those living in the US should to some degree be happy with the country.

A more accurate picture of the US would be supplied by the ones that are disgruntled with the country.

Logic's a female hound :)

Originally posted by dhayes68

A more accurate picture of the quality of the game would have to refelct the vast majority of people who've tried it and weren't happy with it.

 Srry mate , but i cant agree with that at all, imo AoC is not a everybodys game and many factors play against his reputation, this does not mean is not a great game.

u can listen the horde of trolls who love to bash AoC if u want, but no much constructive. I havent seen any who played enough to see the top raids, and at the same time make a negative review of this game.

If u can run it smothly i cant find a reason why it wouldt give u weeks of fun. cheers.

Originally posted by Barteaux

This question was asked on the official forum.

The main theme is; Several things could be better (especially sieges if you ask me), but for the time being, there's no better mmo out on the market. 

Fast paced action and great graphics...

 

Original thread here

It depends on what you're looking for.  In terms of graphics and combat, I don't know of a better MMO. It's certainly the MMO that gives you the most maneuverability of your toon, if only because of the sprint feature.

In terms of feeling like you're in a world full of different things to do, however, I found it lacking.

Enjoyed my first 3 months there a good deal; got a HoX to lvl 68 and ran out of content.  The 4th month I never logged in, and so I cancelled my sub.

I quit shortly after the gear revamp.  I guess I hoped it would make crafting more interesting.  Instead, it just made it more "possible" by no longer requiring you to carry a ridiculous amount of materials with you.

Someday I may sub again; if I can get the game to patch correctly.

No doubt, that AoC is a game for the mature audience. I returned to the game recently, and i love it. My plan where to play AION when it launch. But now I have decided to stay in AoC - because it gives me all I want of a MMO

AoC does have some bad points to it but it also is the only MMO besides SWG Pre CU that  I really liked and played for an extensive time without getting bored. Bored of AoC atm, but that's more a general boredom with MMO's overall it seems like. AoC with working and lagfree sieges would quite possibly be one of the better MMO's for my part. However time will show how they handle the siege situation.

I am very happy..outside of WoW (which is the best MMO on the market by far, but I burnt out on it) I think it's the most fun I have been having. I am another that left at launch and came back a few months ago...the game is now starting to fulfil its potential :)

Asking a question like "Are You Happy With AOC" on the official forums seems kinda unproductive. The official AOC forums will only allow people to post only if they have an active account(like the majority of other MMO forum accounts). People who are actively playing AOC will most likely answer that they have very few complaints of the game, which doesnt really help the game developers at all. The people who Funcom REALLY want to hear from is the 800K players who have quit to game.
Asking the current player base is fine but adding in the restriction of "only people that actually play the game" is pretty shortsighted and on the verge of useless information, as it doesnt take into account the reasons as to why people quit playing the game in the first place.

Originally posted by Vespers

Asking a question like "Are You Happy With AOC" on the official forums seems kinda unproductive. The official AOC forums will only allow people to post only if they have an active account(like the majority of other MMO forum accounts). People who are actively playing AOC will most likely answer that they have very few complaints of the game, which doesnt really help the game developers at all. The people who Funcom REALLY want to hear from is the 800K players who have quit to game.
Asking the current player base is fine but adding in the restriction of "only people that actually play the game" is pretty shortsighted and on the verge of useless information, as it doesnt take into account the reasons as to why people quit playing the game in the first place.

I'm sure Funcom would love to hear from the players that left, but both of these posts were made by "players" and not an employee of Funcom. It's a simple question just asking for a simple reply. It's not asking why people quit the game in the first place. So yes, maybe a usless question because I can only assume if a  person isn't happy with the game they will unsubscribe.

I haven't login AOC already a week because the game failed to inspire me to play. AOC is very solo tended game. I noticed that if any mmo provides with difficulty levels such as you can play Normal and Hard mode usually the game sucks because the game failed to make the game normal.  Warhammer is one of the game failed. This difficulty level origins from F2P design in order to cover balance problems, in order not to expose the balance problem, they mixed the problems and gives you better rewards. Difficulty levels only exists in Single Game options to make the game longer life.

The combat is too simple so they designed Up Up Down Down, Triangle, Square, Up like that to make it difficult but such design on PC game is very wrong. I think any game try to use one version for all platforms are disaster to me. FFXI is designed to play with PS2 and you will find it is so terrible to play on PC platform. At least for me. 

After playing AOC then it makes me liking WOW or LOTRO better but I won't go back to play them. Because I don't like WOW and LOTRO nerfs on character statistics. We paid every month to play the game to gain certain stats and then they just rolled back. 

AOC mapping and zoning is the worsest game I have ever play before. Besides, too many zones like too many partitions reminds me the terrible experiences while playing EQ2, FFXI. I still like WOW and LOTRO with a few large maps so you don't have to connect to server every other minutes from changing zones. 

The landscape is too much vertical graphics design, too many mountain areas. I prefered to sightseeing in Norway in real life but not in the game.

Originally posted by Larry2298

 

The landscape is too much vertical graphics design, too many mountain areas. I prefered to sightseeing in Norway in real life but not in the game.

 

Then I don't suggest you read any of the Conan stories.

Yes, it's just so wrong to ask people that play a game if they're happy with it.

There are plenty of other threads where it would be relevant for you, badboybilly, to use any of your alts... ops forgot, they have a tendency to get banned, right?

So you mean that all the ppl than never tried the game, or they played one month, should post in aoc forums in order to make the game better? lol!

If u play the game you can go and post whatever you want, if u are about to quit go there and post the reasons if u like.

And yes, im having fun playing aoc thats why i pay for it.

Originally posted by elementsgame

Lolz this thread fails. Of course those 100k that stayed are happy because they are paying for it :) What about those million players who quit Age of Conan after one a month. Are they happy? ;)

Yeah, the ones playing the game are mostly happy (otherwise won't be playing it). Many/most of the ones who quit early did so because the game was too buggy to enjoy it. 

A better OP question would be: "Are any of you (people that is playing or has recently being playing the game) happy with AoC?"

So the answers will come from people who knows the actual state of the game and are able to give a reasoned opinion. I started playing a few days ago and yes, I am happy with it so far, enough to buy the game after the trial finishes this weekend. But I only know the low level part of the game, limited to one area, so I cannot comment on the features of the rest of the game.

Originally posted by elementsgame

Lolz this thread fails. Of course those 100k that stayed are happy because they are paying for it :) What about those million players who quit Age of Conan after one a month. Are they happy? ;)

Lol this post made me lol. It did kind of reveal who you really are. :)

Originally posted by elementsgame

Lolz this thread fails. Of course those 100k that stayed are happy because they are paying for it :) What about those million players who quit Age of Conan after one a month. Are they happy? ;)

lol i could not care less about at least half of those mill. as they where but whiners imo, some constructive points have been post but i can not say that is the majority, mostly minor issues are mentioned as fences or instancing (mmo dish of tha day) other may mention after a year playing that lacking content.
i am afraid i might be repeating myself, but i feel mmo comunity (publishers should be inclouded here) behaves mostly in a inmature way and i can just be happy for not sharing game with such loosers, 4m time has to come before we can enjoy in such inmersive world.

; )

Originally posted by elementsgame

Lolz this thread fails. Of course those 100k that stayed are happy because they are paying for it :) What about those million players who quit Age of Conan after one a month. Are they happy? ;)

Some of them are happy, as they just left and go on with their life in some new game. Others are not as happy as they carry on reliving their lost hopes and dreams, and can only find fulfillment in trying to cause the same loss and despair in others.

On topic: Yeah, I'm happy with AoC and I'm confident that the game will just get better and better from here on.

Originally posted by Nataraya

Originally posted by elementsgame

Lolz this thread fails. Of course those 100k that stayed are happy because they are paying for it :) What about those million players who quit Age of Conan after one a month. Are they happy? ;)

lol i could not care less about at least half of those mill. as they where but whiners imo, some constructive points have been post but i can not say that is the majority, mostly minor issues are mentioned as fences or instancing (mmo dish of tha day) other may mention after a year playing that lacking content.
i am afraid i might be repeating myself, but i feel mmo comunity (publishers should be inclouded here) behaves mostly in a inmature way and i can just be happy for not sharing game with such loosers, 4m time has to come before we can enjoy in such inmersive world.

; )

You don't have to care less about half of those million of players since they never existed other then in his head. :P

Originally posted by Barteaux

 there's no better mmo out on the market. 

 

 There are a bunch of better MMOs on the market and more coming out. If you are from oslo, Norway just like Funcom I can see why you spend so much time trying to spam stuff like "best MMO ever". I'm not saying you work there, but I live in York, PA USA and if the Harley Davidson plant shuts down this area would be in trouble. I know Harley sells over priced motorcycles but whatever buy one.

But for the rest of the world it is a pretty crappy game not worth more than a two week free trial over a year after release. So to answer your question who could be happy that all forms of PvP are broken, bugged, or don't happen? Sieges, PvP minis, Tower & Border lands, and bar room brawling?  Also the PvE raid and group content is pretty, for a lack of a better word "crappy, incomplete, disappointing" whatever but there is not much of it and what is there is pretty generic tank and spank.

Heck I don't even have to try when over a year after release so little has improved and not much at all content wise has come out, it blows my mind that anyone plays this, it goes to show the power of advertising which is pretty much all the money Funcom spends on AoC now days.

EDIT: I'm with elements it is funny that Funcom keeps reporting that subscriptions are lasting longer , which is just common sense as the people who don't like the game or most that hit level cap have left so the rest have longer subs. Ya over 500,000 people have tried the game and quit, the funny thing is most people that do play keep pointing to the future because the game is more incomplete than other MMOs today and this cycle has gone on a while, hell most of the official forums are players making suggestions to fix this broken game. It is broken as PvP, sadly does not work today.

Originally posted by finaticd

Originally posted by Barteaux

 there's no better mmo out on the market. 

 

 There are a bunch of better MMOs on the market and more coming out. If you are from oslo, Norway just like Funcom I can see why you spend so much time trying to spam stuff like "best MMO ever". I'm not saying you work there, but I live in York, PA USA and if the Harley Davidson plant shuts down this area would be in trouble. I know Harley sells over priced motorcycles but whatever buy one.

But for the rest of the world it is a pretty crappy game not worth more than a two week free trial over a year after release. So to answer your question who could be happy that all forms of PvP are broken, bugged, or don't happen? Sieges, PvP minis, Tower & Border lands, and bar room brawling?  Also the PvE raid and group content is pretty, for a lack of a better word "crappy, incomplete, disappointing" whatever but there is not much of it and what is there is pretty generic tank and spank.

Heck I don't even have to try when over a year after release so little has improved and not much at all content wise has come out, it blows my mind that anyone plays this, it goes to show the power of advertising which is pretty much all the money Funcom spends on AoC now days.

 

What makes a MMO better then something else is all about what you as a player prefer. WoW ins't a better MMO then AoC in my opinion. Yes it has more players, it has more enfgame stuff. However I also found the endgame stuff in wow more of a evil necessity then something fun I could do.It felt like a second job that I had to do to be able to compete against other players. So does the fact that WoW is one of the worlds most popular MMO's make it better then AoC? In your opinion it most likely do, in my opinion, it doesn't. ;)

PvP is far from broken, yes sieges are fubar, however world PvP, minigames and the borderlands all works in it current form.  The reason minigames don't happen instantly are due to the playerbase, not because they don't work. ;) However they all can be improved. Just like any MMO things can be improved. For people to use the borderlands there should be goals there they could capture and such. World PvP worked fine when I played so how is that broken now? PvE wise he group content in AoC is about as good as in WoW. It's stuff to kill time with. Raid content I did feel was more fun the WoW. Simply because the combat system in AoC didn't allow me to nuke bosses whilst watching forums like WoW did. There is a lack of PvE endgame content, no doubt about that.  A lot of the bosses are tank and spank this is very true, still I enjoyed the fights more due to the combat system that was one of the things that made the game fun. Finally a mmo where I had to focus and the possibility to improve myself over time.

We all know you dislike AoC, you have shown that quite clealry over the last year. Comntentwise AoC has been improved since launch. A lot of areas throughout the game has recieved more quests, 2 new zones, several new group dungeouns, 1 new raid instance. Crafting has been improved and made into something that actually can do a difference. If this is enough content can be discussed but if you look at what they have improved they have improved a decent amount of the game. They basicly had to fix the game from level 30 to 80 after launch due to gaps in quests and lack of content.

The only issues i have with the game is they need cross server PVP and need to redo the system for raid items drop from bosses. Its too random to the point of multiple items of same things are dropping.

Well as per opinion if people came up with what they wanted in an MMORPG and made a big list and compared them AoC would not be near the "best MMO on the market".

Warcraft a year after release had a polished end game with very good raid scripting of bosses compared to AoC's boring Tier 1 and a tank and spank T2. Warcraft had a bunch of single group instances at level cap a year after release, LBRS, UBRS, Strat, Schoolomance, some other one.

Also, Warcraft had better functioniong PvP a year after release compared to AoC. I wrote a big PvP post last week so unless there was a big patch last week there are major issues.It realy isn't opinion as Age of Conan's PvP systems are not working.