Because my laptop can't run it terribly well. :( I played it on my desktop and it was AWESOME.

EDIT: Mostly because I love the IP.

for me i mostly just got annoyed with the combos, at first i loved them but after while just got annoying.

actually i liked the combo's until they add the bottom 2 direction, i use a nostromo key pad, wich i can't play any mmo without. and it has plenty of keys for any mmo i play but AoC when i have 5 keys outta 14 beeing hogged up by those swing directions.if they had kept it to the 3 it woulda been alot better for me.

Not enough content and Funcom have patched in stuff really slowly. 

The quality of the dungeons are from lousy to really good. but not enough of them are fun. Too many prison colonies, too few Sanctums.

It is not a bad game but after a year I felt like I had the fun I could from it and it was time to move on.

Some people never forgave the game for it's bad launch.

In truth I've been wanting to go back to it, but I never do. I was one of those people that was there and launch and man, did I try hard to stick it out. Crashing every 10 minutes, still managed to get a character up to max. And then I got there, and I felt hollow. No sense of accomplishment, no sense of community, nothing...that took about a month and a half and that was all I needed from it.

Since then, AoC has done a LOT to improve, and I've been curious. But everything I've continued to read about it is what keeps me from subbing again. The supposed reputation grind, the lackluster raiding, the low population on pve servers, the constant ganking on pvp servers, and Funcom's continued 'issues'. It may indeed have become something I would enjoy long term but at this point I'll never know, because I don't trust that boat enough to board.

I played on and off for a long time, and I got two characters to 80.

I really wanted to like this game, but it could not hold my interest. I was not in a guild and I often had problems trying to find raids and groups.

Graphics, scenery, and sound are great in AoC! However, I sometimes found the game a bit cumbersome.

That being said I am sure I'll give it another whirl in a month or two, no other current MMO is any better.

--Chegg

I tryd it at launch but it was a mess, i wont return to this game no matter how much it has improved.

A lot of bad reviews long ago put me off from ever playing AoC. Especially the reports of unballanced PvP and lack of end game content. Things may have changed 3 years later but now I just don't care.

Because I don't like how the world is created, feels like I'm entering instances. I recall clicking on a gate and it asked if I wanted to enter the world on hard mode or somethign like that, or solo mode. Not sure the terminology but it feels odd.

I really liked the expansion. However they haven't fixed the Herold of Xotli bug where if one goes into demon form it changes my hair style.

Well, it could be fixed by now but I just wrote customer service to see if they did indeed fix it as well as comment on how horrible there site was for getting my password and they not only didn't answer my question they told me that I needed to supply proof that the account was mine.

Even though I explicitly said that I was just commenting on how their site handeld my password retrievel.

I've never had luck with their customer service.

Everytime I attempt a come back, the following happens:

• I enjoy character creation.
• I enjoy starting up a character.
• I like AoC's questing/storyline. Yes, even after Tortage.
• I enjoy most dungeons­.

• Some dungeons feel very hard to try at the prescribed levels. Most of the complete clear (except Sanctum) end up with a run through or completed with a party 5 or 6 levels above.
• Pathing for mobs doesn't feel natural, and mobs often end up in clusters.
• Search tool is primitive, not functional.
• Websites are littered with outdated content.
• Crafting is very bad.
• Chatrooms and forums are filled with doomsayers.
• Some quests have been bugged since release.
• PvP scenarios are empty.
• Most players prefer to pound rocks instead of doing PvP to gear up.

I tried it at launch for the free month then unsubbed.

Came back about a year ago and played for around 6-7 month stretch. Got to 80 and raided up to starting t3 bosses.

Then realised I had gotten as much fun out of the game as I was going to and quit.

I dont regret my time in it at all. I very much enjoyed it for the few months I played and would encourage someone to try it out if they have not.

Unlike some people an MMO does not have to keep me interested for years to be considered good. Really enjoying a game for 6+ months makes it a success in my book and time well spent.

Originally posted by jdnewell

I tried it at launch for the free month then unsubbed.

Came back about a year ago and played for around 6-7 month stretch. Got to 80 and raided up to starting t3 bosses.

Then realised I had gotten as much fun out of the game as I was going to and quit.

I dont regret my time in it at all. I very much enjoyed it for the few months I played and would encourage someone to try it out if they have not.

Unlike some people an MMO does not have to keep me interested for years to be considered good. Really enjoying a game for 6+ months makes it a success in my book and time well spent.

I played it for 14 months, but yes, it is worth playing, but dont expect it to last forever.

Originally posted by Sovrath

Because I don't like how the world is created, feels like I'm entering instances. I recall clicking on a gate and it asked if I wanted to enter the world on hard mode or somethign like that, or solo mode. Not sure the terminology but it feels odd.

I really liked the expansion. However they haven't fixed the Herold of Xotli bug where if one goes into demon form it changes my hair style.

Well, it could be fixed by now but I just wrote customer service to see if they did indeed fix it as well as comment on how horrible there site was for getting my password and they not only didn't answer my question they told me that I needed to supply proof that the account was mine.

Even though I explicitly said that I was just commenting on how their site handeld my password retrievel.

I've never had luck with their customer service.

 They have really bad customer service,  I got billed for 2 months after I canceled my sub and it took me caling visa.  I had to call visa and do a charge back.  I had to eventually cancel that card yes that is how bad that was.

Now for the hairstyle bug as of october it sill existed.  I just thought it was me.

Originally posted by Redcor

Man you guys are sour... I don't need naked 3d breast's  or carnage, I'm just saying it's a nice game compared to allot of the crap that out there and I am surprised more people don't play.

Failcom did pretty much every mistake you could do in the Launch timeframe of an MMORPG.  I was there.  There was a ton of people for Launch.  But due to Failcom's incompetence and denial of things, they lost us all.

Do forum searches for AoC going back to its launch.  I won't list all the idiotic things Failcom screwed up on.  It'll just raise my blood pressure when I'm on a good mood.  But a search will show more than enough reasons as to why I would never go back to such a screwed up company and game.

For so much hype over it, it completely failed to deliver.  Oh and the breasts?  Pffft.  That got censored too.  It's fine to show limbs and heads getting lopped off, disemboweled and butchered corpses, but man, you can't show breasts.  Hell, even the artbook in AoC's Collector's Edition box gave their justifications for censoring the game.

Failcom may very well have changed things and fixed the game up.  But why would I ever go back to them and their game when I've been burned by them already?  I forked out good money getting the Collector's Edition as well as several months of subscription.  It was also a chore just trying to find a way to cancel (alot of obstacles in the way to do so).  For me to go back to a company that provided that kind of service is foolish.

Originally posted by Redcor

Man you guys are sour... I don't need naked 3d breast's  or carnage, I'm just saying it's a nice game compared to allot of the crap that out there and I am surprised more people don't play.

Maybe, but it got advertised as a carnagefest with naked breasts, and even your own OP mentions that stereotype again.

Not that many people are interested in carnagefests.

i am not a fan of the setting.

Originally posted by Adamantine

Originally posted by Redcor

Man you guys are sour... I don't need naked 3d breast's  or carnage, I'm just saying it's a nice game compared to allot of the crap that out there and I am surprised more people don't play.

Maybe, but it got advertised as a carnagefest with naked breasts, and even your own OP mentions that stereotype again.

Not that many people are interested in carnagefests.

That's probably true. As what the other poster indicated that they were not fans of the setting.

The one thing I think they did 'more right' was to make it bloody and more like the pulp fiction roots that conan grew from.

But then that does narrow their playerbase a bit.

Ahh what the hell i will resub to it tonight. Nothing better to play anyways for another 4 to 5 months. This will keep me busy.

The main reason I stopped playing is because the game stopped being entertaining for me.  The setting, while based on one that I enjoy reading about, falls far short of Howard's own universe.  It is just missing that something that Howard's books had, and as a result the setting wasn't enough to pull me in.  Followed with a game system that I didn't enjoy once past the novelty of it, ahd they stuck with the original design for combat it might've been something cool, but as it stands their design boiled down to taking that which has worked for years and added a nonsensical layer which detracted from my own personal enjoyment of the game as a whole.

It's got nothing to do with the movies, homes. It's based on the original stories... unlike 90% of the movies.

Originally posted by Paradoxy

Ahh what the hell i will resub to it tonight. Nothing better to play anyways for another 4 to 5 months. This will keep me busy.

Just be warned, it feels like playing in an empty world. I had 10 free days to play and while I enjoyed my time I hardly saw anyone else playing. Lovely world, just no one there :(